Lawmakers appalled by scale of contract fraud in Iraq

Government Executive ^ | Sept. 21, 2007 | Otto Kreisher Congress Daily

[AuntB]

another RAT fishing expedition.

Yes, and some republicans and the White House just keep chumming .

[Red6]

Appalled, shocked, amazed, shaken, surprised, stunned, horrified, aghast, sickened, dismayed, astounded-

See, I can also use a thesaurus. Can I now be a Congressman?(BR>

[listenhillary]

I didn’t post the article. Government = waste

The only way to eliminate waste is to not have government. Our civil war had profiteers sending invoices to the government for supplies they never delivered. Some things never change.

I did say it looks like they are finding the crooks and they are paying the consequences.

[freekitty]

Welcome to the world of graft. Hunter is right.

[listenhillary]

How about the death penalty for anyone who fudges on their tax return?

Death penalty for any government employee or contractor caught embezzling, misusing tax dollars?

Death penalty for anyone who knowingly commits fraud of any sort?

[ikka]

$6 Billion is a huge number -but what percentage is it of total spending? Even local govt spending has 2-5% fraud or more built into it.

[AuntB]

Welcome to the world of graft. Hunter is right.

Yes, he is. AGAIN!

[AuntB]

I’m amazed how some of you take this so lightly. If it were a democrat administration everyone would be calling for their heads.

[listenhillary]

Calling for their heads and having something actually being done to stop fraud and waste are two different things entirely.

Democrat party kool-aid tastes pretty good once you get started drinking it.

[humblegunner]

You know, it is really refreshing that Congressman Hunter uses his position

Who???

[Anvilhead]

Damn straight. The liberals are the ones who protect their wrongdoers, not us.

Those of you who do anything but condemn these thieves should be ashamed of yourself. But you won’t be, ‘cause you’re too damn focused on slamming liberals rather then strengthening the country.

Most of you are as pathetic as the pinkos.

This crap is ridiculous.

[AuntB]

Is there a caboose to this train of silly questions and comments you keep throwing in here?

[AuntB]

Love your tagline!

[listenhillary]

Posting an article and getting outraged doesn’t change the essential fact that governments waste money. The larger they are, the more they waste.

If you want to put a stop to waste and fraud, apply the death penalty for those charged with mis-spending our tax dollars.

To be fair, if someone cheats their fellow citizen by lying on their tax returns, give them the death penalty also.

[AmericaUnited]

Members of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday they were saddened and appalled at the number of military officers and civilian officials implicated in as much as $6 billion in contract fraud in Iraq and by the mismanagement that left 190,000 weapons intended for Iraqi security forces unaccounted for.

OH PLEASE! Stop the feigned shock... These RATS piss away much more than that on useless pork.

[listenhillary]

There is no “useless” pork. The pork results in more votes, job security, name recognition and payments to the candidates financiers.

I agree the mock outrage is quite hypocritical though.

[Calpernia]

The man investigating the missing weapons.

[Calpernia]

You’re familiar with the details of this investigation? Please share.

[Calpernia]

I’m more interested in the 190,000 missing weapons.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

Disgusting.

Chalk this up as yet another reason why Bush has boggled Iraq.