Over the past week or so I have read several items that have bugged me about the current government. Most seem like decisions that just meet the "common sense" criteria. Lets check em out here.
1. US Sends pallets of cash to Baghdad.
Who the fuck sends tons \ billions of US dollars into a war zone. I know Iraq is a cash economy but come on. How much waste can we account for?
Heres a great example of this mess.
Money also disappeared in truckloads and by helicopter. The CPA reportedly distributed funds to contractors in bags off the back of a truck. In one notorious incident in April 2004, $1.5 billion in cash that had just been delivered by three Blackhawk helicopters was handed over to a courier in Erbil, in the Kurdish region, never to be seen again. Afterwards, no one was able to recall the courier’s name or provide a good description of him.
$1.5 billion dollars ??? WTF??? Accountability ?
2. Pentagon Manipulates Intelligence Data (pdf link)
Next I hear that the Pentagon manipulated the data GWB used to tell the Americans we needed to go to war with Iraq. The Acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble wimps out and says that the Pentagon used "Inappropriate but not Illegal" data. I guess everyone in the Inspector General's office and in the US government forgets about accountability.
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