Could the familiar
story of the Iraq war's early bungled reconstruction effort get any
worse? Yes, it could. The military is now investigating its own senior
officers, who are suspected of trading contracts for huge bribes. In a
dramatic twist, much of the testimony driving the investigation into
the massive corruption scandal comes posthumously from Dale C. Stoffel,
an American arms dealer killed under mysterious circumstances by
hostile forces in Iraq in 2004. Stoffel described to officials shady
deals in which contractors would deliver tens of thousands of dollars
hidden in pizza boxes to military leaders in order to score lucrative
reconstruction jobs. The New York Times reports the investigation is
focused on two officers who held top positions in distributing
reconstruction funds shortly after the invasion--Lt. Col. Ronald W.
Hirtle of the Air Force and retired Col. Anthony B. Bell of the Army.
Posted at 7:19 AM, Feb 15, 2009
Who'd a thunk? How on earth could something like this happen in this day and age?
Who'd a thunk we would end up in Iraq in the first place except the felons who were planning for it two years before they even took office?
Who'd a thunk so many of those planners were associated with the companies who ended up getting all those contracts in the first place. Associated with includes shareholders, employees, independent contractors of the independent contractors, and of course, the guy who ran THE SINGLE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE HISTORY OF WARFARE--tricky dicky cheney.
Who'd a thunk that the single worst 'administrator' in the history of man, Paul Bremer would make a call to the WH and ask that 12 billion dollars be dropped in the middle of Bagdad on pallets? And then splain that he did not have any receipts for the money.
Who'd a thunk that ten cents on every dollar charged to the cost of the Iraq war would go to tricky dicky cheney's company?
Who'd a thunk that some monies might have ended up in the pockets of 75 generals with promises of 7 and even 8 figured bonuses AS LONG AS AMERICA STAYED IN IRAQ LONG ENOUGH.
What a surprise that some, a little lower down the rung from treasonous generals, a few colonels might have attempted to get a college fund for their grandchildren?
