Warning , its best if western taxpayers never read this article , its
best for them if they are left to bleed to death in peace
Why upset a dying people , why kick a corpse , let them bleed to death
for Israel in peace
Nothing can now save them so why upset them now
www.costofwar.com
Best they stay watching football with a nice cold beer or two
kangarooistan
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Australian Broadcasting Cor****ation
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2290083.htm
FOUR CORNERS
Date: 30/06/2008
Where did the money go? An investigation into claims that up to US$23
billion has been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.
Daylight Robbery
Re****ter: BBC Panorama
Broadcast: 30/06/2008
When the US goes to war, cor****ate America goes too.
If there=92s a role to be filled, chances are a private company will
fill it =96 whether it=92s feeding troops, trucking goods, guarding
facilities or even interrogating some prisoners.
Contractors now re****tedly outnumber soldiers, and many of their
contracts came through companies with connections to die for in
Wa****ngton.
With up to $23 billion believed to have been wasted, thieved, lost or
unaccounted for, the BBC=92s Panorama program asks if a culture of
cronyism explains where some of the money went.
"They are the quintessential war profiteers =96 they made money out of
chaos," says one witness.
More than 70 whistleblower cases could open the book on the missing
billions =96 if it wasn=92t for gagging orders issued by US justice
authorities.
But Panorama hears from some people at the heart of the affair about
who got rich and who got burnt. There are allegations of fraud and
favouritism, contracts scored without competitive bidding, companies
inflating their costs and double counting, and fortunes ending up in
the pockets of Iraqi officials.
"Daylight Robbery" - on Four Corners at 8.30 pm Monday 30 June, on
ABC1.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2287756.htm
This program will be repeated about 11.35 pm Tuesday 1 July; also on
ABC2 at 8 am Tuesday.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
BBC Panorama's Daylight Robbery
BBC's Panorama investigates claims that as much as US$23 billion
may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq.
Watch a trailer online.
BACKGROUND READING
US spending in Iraq ignored rules | BBC News | 23 May 2008
"An audit of some $8bn (=A34bn) paid to US and Iraqi contractors
has found that almost every payment failed to comply with US laws
aimed at preventing fraud."
The Iraq war: Counting the cost | BBC News | 19 March 2008
"The Iraq war has proved far more costly than the US government
thought when it went to war five years ago."
The $3.2 trillion war in Iraq | Radio National Breakfast | 11
March 2008
$3.2 trillion is the amount US taxpayers will have pay for the
war in Iraq, according to two leading economists, including a Nobel
prize laureate. [Download audio]
Iraq's missing millions | The Guardian: Comment is free | 8
February 2007
"The cavalier accounting of Paul Bremer's CPA helped make Iraq
arguably the most corrupt government in the Middle East."
Billions Wasted In Iraq? | CBS News | 9 July 2006
A re****t by CBS News' 60 Minutes on the high cost of war in
Iraq.
FURTHER RESOURCES
In depth: Struggle for Iraq | BBC News Online
A gathering of news and reviews about the war in Iraq.
Interview with Saddam Hussein | CBS News | February 2003
The American journalist Dan Rather interviews Saddam Hussein for
CBS News. Go to the website to watch interview highlights.
Timeline: Iraq after Saddam | BBC Online
A look back at key events since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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