It is not enough that there are no WMD in Iraq and that this administration mislead our country.
It is not enough that husbands and wives, and mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers are dying every day for a war based on a lie.
It is not enough that this war in Iraq has made us less safe, not more.
No, on top of all that and more, we, the taxpayers, have been robbed of about a BILLION dollars.
From the Mercury News
By Hannah Allam Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi investigators have uncovered widespread fraud and waste in more than $1 billion worth of weapons deals arranged by middlemen who reneged or took huge kickbacks on contracts to arm Iraq's fledgling military, according to a confidential report and interviews with U.S. and Iraqi officials.
The Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit, in a report reviewed by Knight Ridder, describes transactions suggesting that senior U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials in the Defense Ministry used three intermediary companies to hide the kickbacks they received from contracts involving unnecessary, overpriced or outdated equipment.
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