shecky
5th February 2005, 10:13 AM
Interesting comments here (http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger23.html)
U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer, the U.S. government man in charge of the CPA “acknowledged that financial systems in Iraq were weak” but said that the problem of the missing money arose from the urgency of turning Iraq over to the Iraqis. That’s an explanation for $9 billion in missing Iraqi monies? Not surprisingly, the Pentagon “also disagreed with the report’s conclusions, saying Sunday that the agency had implemented reforms to improve accountability.” That explains the $9 billion in missing Iraqi monies?
Pardon me for asking what might be uncomfortable questions, but why is the “waste, fraud, and abuse” under both regimes in Iraq – the Saddam regime and the U.S. government regime – not equally corrupt? Why aren’t U.S. neoconservatives as outraged and upset over the disappearance of large sums of money under the control of U.S. officials as they are with those under Saddam? Isn’t corruption corruption?
UN issues always make me yawn. Make it more local, and I might get interested.
U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer, the U.S. government man in charge of the CPA “acknowledged that financial systems in Iraq were weak” but said that the problem of the missing money arose from the urgency of turning Iraq over to the Iraqis. That’s an explanation for $9 billion in missing Iraqi monies? Not surprisingly, the Pentagon “also disagreed with the report’s conclusions, saying Sunday that the agency had implemented reforms to improve accountability.” That explains the $9 billion in missing Iraqi monies?
Pardon me for asking what might be uncomfortable questions, but why is the “waste, fraud, and abuse” under both regimes in Iraq – the Saddam regime and the U.S. government regime – not equally corrupt? Why aren’t U.S. neoconservatives as outraged and upset over the disappearance of large sums of money under the control of U.S. officials as they are with those under Saddam? Isn’t corruption corruption?
UN issues always make me yawn. Make it more local, and I might get interested.