Very doubtful that all the funding for Iraq or Afghanistan was all accounted for. What is disclosed and accounted for, is not the totality of what was ‘approved’. Heck, funding that is approved is not the same as what was spent. We have that kind of spending inconsistencies within domestic spending, where a lot more is spent than what the government officially approves. “WE” spend a lot of money on school grants and on paying off college student loans, so, we could be doing the same with foreign spending and not know about it. When it comes to 5-8 trillion dollars of spending each year, we won’t know exactly where it’s going, and that;s the same for military and domestic spending. Big government says we don’t have a need o know.
I did not say that all of that funding was accounted for. I said it was closely tracked and audited. I knew some of the DFAS bean counters who were in country and reporting financials on a daily basis. As I said, I provided various documents to DCMA/DCAA auditors upon request as did many of my colleagues. It might not have been “all accounted for,” but the majority of it was and there was close scrutiny. Anomalies that arose in the auditing were reported in the news. Missing chunks of money were pursued and this was disclosed to John and Jane Q. Public.
I know a little about this subject and Ukrainian snow jobs aren’t going to work on me.
Those billions being sent to Ukraine are not being audited and tracked in that manner. I suspect only a handful of bad actors know the true dispersal of that money and equipment. There has always been corruption in government, but the blatancy and the corruption itself have increased exponentially since Obama and Biden got control of things.
I will not repeat this again and become ensnared in a circuitous Ukie-loop. I remain vehemently opposed to our tax dollars being sent to a known money laundering operation with no audits or accountability.