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As tax season starts, this kind of news just pisses you off.
Iraq CPA officials lost even more money than originally thought, but they didn't exactly lose all of it, they gave it away.
Former CPA official Franklin Willis told the hearing there had been widespread abuse and waste of money at the authority.
He showed pictures of himself and other US officials holding plastic-wrapped bundles of $100 notes totalling $2m, which he said was used to pay a security contractor.
"We told them to come in and bring a bag," Mr Willis said.
Just bring a bag?! Oooh...I don't know, will just one bag cover it? This isn't an accounting oversight, this is piracy. Some
Blackwater security man is laughing himself to sleep tonight as he admires his new truck in the driveway and the case of champagne he gave his wife for Valentine's day. You got a problem with that? Tough.
For every child that spends another day in a crumby, overcrowded school, for every senior who dies in their sleep tonight because they couldn't afford simple heart medication, for every single mother who works 60 hours a week for $6.00 an hour and gets told that she needs to invest her retirement savings in the stock market because it'll make her less dependent on big government; for all of them, the Pentagon thanks you.