Congress Blocks Fraud Investigations in Iraq

In the middle of the night a provision to close the Iraq audit office is added to a military funding bill.

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• Iraq
• Fraud
• Republican
• Democrat
• Election
• Bush
• contractors
• Haliburton
• KBR
• Insurgents

[miaubella]

well, how convenient...

[CRAPCANNONS]

Does anyone have the list of names of those who shut this down?

[ArmyStallion0583]

I was a convoy escort that provided security for KBR convoys. We ate at KBR chow halls. Took our laundry to contractors. Many, many jobs that the military has trained soldiers to do; our government has brought in civillians and paid them 4 times as much as they would a soldier to do the same job. This has been the biggest war proffiteering since wwII. WHen truman fought tooth and nail against it. Now we have Bush and Chaney whom both have ties to companies in Iraq, making billions in taxpayer $!

[moneymagnetelizabeth]

My father would be turning in his grave. The army and government should be held accountable for every pen, eraser and pencil. I met a soldier that came back from Iraq and he said that the war is a scam for construction dollar thievery.

[MooseOfReason]

Democratic-controlled Congress and the bill passes. Yet it's the Republicans' fault?

[spookytom]

Easy to see why Republicans wanted to block any investigations, it's a little murkier why Dems would agree... Until you discover that Sen. Diane Feinstein's husband got a $50 MILLION contract to fix electricity in Iraq (which is still not running...) who else is lining their pockets?

[icountsueulaw]

Winston Churchill is quoted as having once said: "Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened." Just as a bell that has been rung cannot be "unrung", the annoying problem with the Truth is that, once you learn it, you can not "unlearn" it

[icountsueulaw]

'In the councils of Government; We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, ether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes".

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farewell address to the Nation...January 17, 1961

[icountsueulaw]

"The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world

government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent,

all under their control. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot,

international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent."

--Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976

(killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets)

[icountsueulaw]

"Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

—United States v. Olmstead, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1925) (Brandeis, J., dissenting)