Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Pull Up to a Pickup Truck in Iraq & Get a Sack of CPA Controlled Cash!

As you prepare your taxes this year, please keep this in mind: Millions of dollars were wasted (and given away to Iraqi contractors, often from the back of pickup trucks) by the US led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The CPA controllled and ran the show in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad until the transfer of power in June of 2004. Hmm...we already know that $9 billion is simply "missing" for Iraqi reconstruction, and this story reports people filling up on stacks of cash and putting the cash in knapsacks...stacks of cash that amounted to $2 million...and simply walking off with it. CPA officials said that they "would count the money when it left the vault, but that nobody kept track of the money after that". WOW...imagine if my husband and I could put that line down on our W-2's this year?? "Gee...we're really sorry Mr. IRS Auditor, but nobody kept track of the money this year". Oh, if only hard working middle class chumps like us could pull that one off...oh that's right...money laundering, vault pilfering, and million dollar scams are the prized work of the RICH...I am so stupid...silly silly me.
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