[SolidWood]

Four years after the invasion, Iraq remains poor and chaotic

Just what does this caption want to tell us!? Was Iraq before the invasion less poor and chaotic? Oh I see... it's the BBC.

[Steve_Seattle]

If there's a bigger a**hole in DC than Waxman, I'd like to know who it is.

[WBL 1952]

Obrian on CNN said this as a big story involving the Pentagon sending billions of YOUR tax money in cash to Iraq without any accounting.

Obrian, and most of the looney left, keep forgetting to read that this was the IRAQI's MONEY, oil and frozen assets under Saddam, and if they lost it I would guess that is their problem.

[rellimpank]

---we can count on stuff like this dominating the MSM for the next year or so--the plan being that after election '08 there won't be so much as an elected Republican dogcatcher left in the USA---

[pierrem15]

They never mention that Iraq never had a functioning banking system: no checks, no direct deposit.

If you want to employ someone, you pay cash.

Is it wasteful and open to corruption? Sure.

But there was never any other way to hire anyone in Iraq.

The 'debate' (i.e., torrent of left-wing screeching) over Iraq is so far removed from the realit of Iraq that it sounds more and more like Alice in Wonderland.

Fantasy politics for adolescents who never grew up.

But Death waits patiently even for fools.

[Non-Sequitur]

On the other hand he does have a point. Just what kind of idiot DOES send 360 tons of cash to a war zone?

[art_rocks]

Are they talking about the billons in social spending here?

[WhiteGuy]

The former head of the US-led civilian administration in Iraq has defended his decision to send billions of dollars in cash to Baghdad in 2003 and 2004.

Paul Bremer told a Congressional committee investigating allegations of waste and fraud, "Hey, it's not MY money, ha ha ha, stupid taxpayers, you're just jealous because I got to loot the treasury with no repercussions, and you didn't.""HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Woooooooooooo Hoooooooooooo!"