Money for Nothing

Post #230,037 by dmcarls 10/19/05 9:14:11 AM Reply	Money for Nothing [link\|http://amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html\|http://amconmag.com/..._10_24/cover.html] " The 15-month proconsulship of the CPA disbursed nearly $20 billion, two-thirds of it in cash, most of which came from the Development Fund for Iraq that had replaced the UN Oil for Food Program and from frozen and seized Iraqi assets. Most of the money was flown into Iraq on C-130s in huge plastic shrink-wrapped pallets holding 40 \ufffdcashpaks,\ufffd each cashpak having $1.6 million in $100 bills. Twelve billion dollars moved that way between May 2003 and June 2004, drawn from accounts administered by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The $100 bills weighed an estimated 363 tons." [...] " 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\ufffds name or provide a good description of him." [...] more in the article, of course. Imagine! Shrink-wrapped pallets of cash!
Post #230,073 by Andrew Grygus 10/19/05 1:35:22 PM Reply	Actually, that is 'stretch wrap' . . . . . you don't use shrink wrap on whole pallets. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #230,103 by Ashton 10/19/05 4:23:10 PM Reply	Micro-nit of the Year Award!___:-\ufffd
Post #230,150 by Andrew Grygus 10/19/05 11:08:05 PM Reply	We don't want the administration pointing to . . . . . "serious inaccuracies" in our reporting, do we? [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #230,108 by Ashton 10/19/05 4:47:05 PM Reply	Were only 10% of this collection 'True' - it would be damning. (And WFT would an ex-CIA Officer and 'international security consultant Know!?) Indeed. We appear to have passed from the insouciance and incompetence stage, directly into the corruption pandemic (exporting perfectly, the Homeland Corporate model) - - thence on into something that stretches for a Name [??] Post-credibility Surrealism? (Surely at least One person has been seriously injured! via a packet of Money falling, during the unloading and regularly scheduled Getaways. Shirley.) And Still! the word *Impeachment* appears not to roll trippingly off the tongues of the legions of pundits, bloviators, 'journalists' and assorted rag-tag Opinionators. Gooo Giants! / Who's getting voted off the Island tonight? / Shall we get the leather seats, Honey? A good day to see Wallace & Gromit, I wot. Paragons of wisdom by any comparison.

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