- Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General and obtained exclusively by the CBS News investigative unit. Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million.
—cbsnews.com, (12/6/07) - “The bottom line in terms of the weapons — AK-47s and Glock pistols — is that there were about 190,000 that could not be accounted for,” said Joseph Christoff, author of the GAO report.
— NPR, ‘Morning Edition, (8/17/07) - An audit of US reconstruction spending in Iraq has uncovered spectacular misuse of tens of millions of dollars in cash, including bundles of money stashed in filing cabinets, a US soldier who gambled aways thousands and stacks of newly minted notes distributed without receipts.
— timesonline.co.uk, (1/26/06)
We sit and marvel at the incompetent display of Decider George and his selected minons in carrying out one of the greatest debacles in human history. These people can only be not trusted, but are lazy, shiftless, mean-spirited sonofabitches.
They lied about the reasons for going to war — and pol-hole Karl Rove continues the lie out of his ass-faced mouth — then couldn’t put together enough military sense to complete the mission, including the right equipment for US troops, and went so far as to just let dolts run the entire, mismanaged affair.
The legacy of Decider George will only be of repugnance.