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700 million is nothing. Republicans threw away 9 BILLION in Iraq in hundred dollar bills.. Just gave it away to anyone with a wheelbarrow.
News Hounds: Dan Senor Tells Bill Maher How We Lost 9 Billion In Iraq
"How do you lose 9 billion dollars?" Maher said there were virtually CPA's with wheelbarrels full of $100 dolllar bills being carted around in Iraq after the 'Mission Accomplished' had been declared.
Dan Senor: So,here's what happened. It was a lot of Iraqi money (Comment: What? This was U.S. money given to Iraq) that was being disbursed quickly, so we could put Iraqi's back to work. We had a million and a half Iraqi's on the government payroll. We had to get the money out quickly. We could have waited and held back and not distributed the money and waited for auditors to be there and waited for first world accounting standards to be in place to prevent against this kind of fraud and hope that all that would be in place in time for all these million and a half Iraqis to storm the streets wondering why they and thery're families weren't getting food on the table.(Comment: Weren't Iraqis looting, weren't they storming the streets already?)
So, we had to make the decision to get the money out quickly. In the process, it was a war zone with third war accounting standards, not first world.
Helen Thomas: It was fraud, though.
Dan Senor: (Raising his voice to a shout) It was not a fraud, it was a war zone.
Hey idiot Republicans are part of the problem as well, they throw money around same as the Dems, Big government is the problem. as far as Iraq goes we should have been paid back by the Iraqi government for at least half the cost of the war with their oil money
Did you see that video I posted of Republicans being asked, "What do we cut?" and they said "Government".
Then they were asked:
Medicare no
Vets benefits no
education no
research no
infrastructure no
Medicaid no
Social Security no
and the list went on. Finally, they were asked to name something and "couldn't". It was hilarious.
of course as I said establishment Republicans are part of the problem, the political class of both parties are useless
