“The administration is skipping the normal budget process to ask for an additional $82 billion to fund the American presence in Iraq. Among the big-ticket items, a $600 million embassy and some 14 "enduring" bases. Those bases, and the absence of an exit strategy, will worsen, not improve the situation in Iraq.”
What’s that all about? Enduring Bases? I could have sworn that someone said we were leaving. And what do you think the average Iraqi will believe when he hears about the job opportunities opening up at the new US Army base in town?
So far we've spent around $200 billion invading, policing and now trying to rebuild Iraq. We don’t know the exact number because a lot of the money has simply disappeared. The C.P.A said that there wasn’t time to put a proper bookkeeping system in place and so the money wasn’t traceable. Sorry.
Receipts? Couldn’t we have used pieces of paper with amounts and names on them? And then, later, when we wanted to know who had what…we could have looked at the pieces of paper. I know, I know. I’m just clueless when it comes to high finance. I’m certain that it is all under control and the money will be found, eventually. Trust them.
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