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The Mother Of All Heists
CBS News ^ | Oct. 22, 2006 | 60 Minutes Steve Kroft Reports

Posted on 10/24/2006 7:54:39 AM PDT by repinwi

60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Reports On Disappearance Of More Than $500 Million To Equip Iraqi Army

(CBS) More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq was stolen by people the U.S. had entrusted to run the country's Ministry of Defense before the 2005 elections, according to Iraqi investigators.

Iraq's former minister of finance says coalition members like the U.S. and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom fled the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; arabthievesshocking; cbs; corruption; dncspin; iraq; makeitup; thethievesofbaghdad; treasonmedia
It's all Bush's fault.
1 posted on 10/24/2006 7:54:40 AM PDT by repinwi
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To: repinwi

CBS exists to elect Democrats.


2 posted on 10/24/2006 7:56:07 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: BushFault

3 posted on 10/24/2006 7:56:09 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: evets
"The case is one of 2,000 Iraqi government corruption cases the judge’s commission is handling that, all told, involve $7.5 billion."

That's Bush's fault too! lol

4 posted on 10/24/2006 7:58:19 AM PDT by repinwi (Don't squat with your spurs on.)
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To: repinwi
Iraq's former minister of finance says coalition members like the U.S. and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom fled the country.

uhhh... how bout you do something for yourself for once...
5 posted on 10/24/2006 7:58:32 AM PDT by fhlh (Polls are for Strippers.)
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To: repinwi

why do most all lying crooks try to advert attention, and this Alliwai is big time trying


6 posted on 10/24/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: sure_fine

why do most all lying crooks try to DIVERT attention


7 posted on 10/24/2006 8:01:48 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: repinwi

Crunch all you want......we'll print more.


8 posted on 10/24/2006 8:04:43 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (When Bubba lies, the finger flies!)
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To: sure_fine
This is the response from the DUmmy who had brought this article to my attention and wanted me to comment on it.

"It was US tax payers money given to help the Iraqi's and the members of the Iraqi Government we put in power stole it"

9 posted on 10/24/2006 8:04:57 AM PDT by repinwi (Don't squat with your spurs on.)
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To: repinwi

considerng that if you added up all the tax paid by DU crews, they couldn't buy a plane ticket out of town, what do you expect


10 posted on 10/24/2006 8:16:19 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: repinwi

I'll bet Murtha and his contractor pals steal ten times as much from the defense budget.


11 posted on 10/24/2006 8:31:52 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: repinwi

It's See-BS. Another fraulent news story like the Bush National Guard story designed to influence the elections?


12 posted on 10/24/2006 8:55:41 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
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To: repinwi

Anyone bother to notice their ONLY source is the guy kicked out of the New Iraqi Goverment because he was so grotesquely incompetent?

Yeah, THIS source doesn't have an ax to grind right CBS?


13 posted on 10/24/2006 8:57:57 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
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To: MNJohnnie

What do these Iraqis think they are, Massachusetts Democrats?


14 posted on 10/24/2006 9:03:09 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: repinwi

Maybe Kofi can cover it out of the money he and his spawn stole from the U.N.'s "Oil for Food and Presidential Palaces" funds.


15 posted on 10/24/2006 9:07:27 AM PDT by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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