by- Suzie-Q @ 8:10 AM MST
According to a new bipartisan report, the Pentagon has spent $19 billion on training and equipping Iraqi security forces–and can’t account for how it was spent.
The Pentagon “cannot report in detail how many of the 346,500 Iraqi military and police personnel that the coalition trained are operational today,” according to the 250-page report. Details of the document were provided to The Washington Post by congressional staff members.“We have no idea what our $19 billion has gotten us,” said Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.), chairman of the Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations, noting that the United States investment represents $55,000 per Iraqi recruit.
According to the report, the Pentagon “cannot account for whether coalition-issued weapons have been stolen or turned against U.S. forces.” The report also found “strong evidence” that some Iraqi forces who were trained and equipped by the U.S. military are now involved in sectarian violence.
“We have no idea what our $19 billion has gotten us,” said Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.), chairman of the Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations,
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As an American taxpayer, I would like to know where it went!
If Rummy were around he could explain it very clearly…G:
Chimpy=Corruption.
That was an expensive damned “integrity” he brought back to Washington.
“Black monies” …
Regent Cheney had to pay for all those black ops he’s been dispatching in Iran and elsewhere, no?
There’s only 2 people to talk to about all this!
1 = RUMSFELD!
2 = CHENEY!
You don’t really think all that money went to feed the poor do you ?
If I gad to guess, that money is split three ways between Halliburton, Al Qaeda, and Al Sadr.
Geezer:
Rummy would say something similar to his previous quotes:
“As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
“I am not going to give you a number for it because it’s not my business to do intelligent work.” -asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress.
“I believe what I said yesterday.
I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it’s what I said.”
“We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.” –on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction
“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”
Mentarch:
Exactly! Don’t forget, Cheney is a “rogue nation”…
LOL
GEF:
Yes and probably some others who belong to the PNAC.
TomCat:
Yep and Halliburton probably got the larger share… thanks to Cheney!
[...] It also shows his Sixth Principle of Incompetence-driven primitive mind. On a related note: here is how I suspect Regent Cheney gets (at least part of) his monies to fund his OURUS and those secret ops at his behest (see above). With regards to the trashing of [...]
SQ
“I believe what I said yesterday.
I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it’s what I said.”
LOLMAO
BTW…Ray McGovern would love your Rummy quotes.
Well…I’m off to the village
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Suzie-Q: thanks! You notice that I linked to this post here, eh? (Gotta support homebase!)