Check this out, a new commission examining waste and corruption in wartime contracts say poor planning, weak oversight and greed combined to soak U.S. taxpayers and undermine American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other words the US soldier and taxpayers got fucked
Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, says U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $51 billion for a wide array of projects in Iraq. |Anything from training the Iraqi army (what army) and police to rebuilding the country's oil, electric, justice, health and transportation sectors.
Overall, the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development have paid contractors more than $100 billion since 2003 for goods and services to support war operations and rebuilding projects in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are 154 open criminal investigations into allegations of bribery, conflicts of interest, defective products, bid rigging (wonder if Bush and Chaney and Halliburton's name are in the investigation and theft stemming from the wars, Thomas Gimble, the Pentagon's principal deputy inspector general, said in his testimony.
Is the US getting any of that back from the oil sales that Iraq is making or getting this money back in the form of free oil given to the US taxpayers ?
Not a suprized that Iraq fucked the US taxpayer once again.