July 07, 2005

Where's the money gone? Auditing the Iraqi reconstruction.
posted by Wolof 19 years ago
  • Boy, reading that will just fuck up the rest of your day.
  • This is also required reading - a wideranging set of statistics on everything you could possibly want to know about the war and aftermath.
  • I don't have any of it. Nope, not even a little pallets worth.
  • I would be happy to mind some just so it doesn't get lost. I have a smallish room that could park a bit for a bit.
  • anger, ionised streams, etc.
  • Great link. Co-inkly-dinkly I bought my first LRB the other day (Only 3 quid! With a free Penguin edition of William Hazlitt essays!) - so ... yeah. /off topic
  • Also check CorpWatch's War Profiteers Page and Pratap Chatterjee's book Iraq, Inc.
  • I have hinted here before as to my current employment, and let me say that this is just the very edge of a massive cliff. If Iraq has not yet been bent over and been doubly-triply ass-fucked by an endless queue of viagra-sniffing hounds, tomorrow is another day... Where's the money gone? Rather, where hasn't the money gone!
  • What's the point of having a war if not to transfer tax dollars in hideous numbers into private hands? The funny thing is that a lot of the supporters of the present administration think they got a tax cut...
  • Mr. B. is a simple servant with the AF doing packing and crating, shipping overseas, and hazardous materials certification. Whoo, can he tell some stories. Yea, this war has certainly lined some deep, deep pockets.
  • Let's hear the stories, Horsie!
  • ^^^ stupid registration... here's another
  • Cronyism and Kickbacks - more from Harriman at the LRB.
    There’s little transparency or accountability. To judge from the audits published so far, at least $12 billion spent by the Americans and by the Iraqi interim and transitional governments has not been properly accounted for. Almost three years after the fall of Saddam, the GAO reports, ‘it is unclear how US efforts are helping the Iraqi people obtain clean water, reliable electricity or competent healthcare.’
  • Spoils of war, baby. Spoils of war. Can I just say how cool it is to have homunculus around, to find all these articles I wouldn't begin to know where to look for?
  • Actually, that one was just on MeFi, so thanks should go to digaman.