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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.
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:54:40 AM PDT
by
repinwi
To: repinwi
CBS exists to elect Democrats.
To: BushFault
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:56:09 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: evets
"The case is one of 2,000 Iraqi government corruption cases the judges commission is handling that, all told, involve $7.5 billion." That's Bush's fault too! lol
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:58:19 AM PDT
by
repinwi
(Don't squat with your spurs on.)
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...
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posted on
10/24/2006 7:58:32 AM PDT
by
fhlh
(Polls are for Strippers.)
To: repinwi
why do most all lying crooks try to advert attention, and this Alliwai is big time trying
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: sure_fine
why do most all lying crooks try to DIVERT attention
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:01:48 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: repinwi
Crunch all you want......we'll print more.
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"
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:04:57 AM PDT
by
repinwi
(Don't squat with your spurs on.)
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
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:16:19 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: repinwi
I'll bet Murtha and his contractor pals steal ten times as much from the defense budget.
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:31:52 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: repinwi
It's See-BS. Another fraulent news story like the Bush National Guard story designed to influence the elections?
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:55:41 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
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?
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posted on
10/24/2006 8:57:57 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(EeevilCon, Snowflake, Conservative Fundamentalist Gun Owning Bush Bot Dittohead reporting for duty!)
To: MNJohnnie
What do these Iraqis think they are, Massachusetts Democrats?
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posted on
10/24/2006 9:03:09 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
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.
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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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