The entire Congress is complicit to ineptitude of historic proportions - $1.2 billion lost!

[RiverStone]

How can John Q. Public wrap their mind around a story like this? A story much like other stories that have been repeated with different players at different times through out Shrub's foreign policy disaster in Iraq.

This time, the U.S. State Department is unable to account for most of $1.2 billion in funding that it gave to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police. Can you say war profiteering? One might as well set up burn barrels and toss our tax dollars into it. It's bad enough that we have to front this unjust war based on lies, but monies earmarked to build Iraq's infrastructure are now simply lost. Just another $1.2 fucking billion! How many fire fighters, water bucket dropping helicopters, and tanker trucks to fight the California fires could we buy for 1.2 billion?

Of course, someone or many someones are doing something with this money? I doubt it has anything to do with Iraq. Can you say overseas bank accounts?

And in the mother of all lame responses to what happened we read:

Gregory Lagana, a spokesman for DynCorp, said the company's work in Iraq is a "really complex program. ... We buy weapons, body armor, vehicles, communications equipment -- that all belongs to the State Department."

Sometimes, he said, "it's coded wrong or double-billed. We actually find a lot of that ourselves in the normal auditing process."

Umm, coded wrong or doubled billed???

more:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/22/dyncorp.spending/index.html

QUESTION: Why does our Congress continue to authorize an additional dime for Shrub's war when the state department routinely can't keep track of billions of dollars already? :mad:

[fenriswolf]

1. i thought their was up to and over

9 billion completly lost (not including mismanaged, subverted or paid for consulting or contracting work that never got underway)

[midnight]

2. Congress we don't want to issue any more funds. The 1.2

billion for DynCorp is missing.