Pentagon can’t account for $8.57 billion in Iraqi funds

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6198.shtml


B is for billions. And b is for it’s hard to believe that they’ve done it again. The last time, even more money vanished, which I noted in my article, Following Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11. This was under the Zionist Dov Zakheim’s watch as Comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004.

I wrote in that article, “At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001, that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.

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In a more recent article, I noted that Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen & Hamilton. Post BAH, Dov Zakheim has now surfaced in a blog called Shadow Government for Foreign Policy magazine. Still at it, this time he posted an article dismissing the 91,000 documents released by whistleblower Julian Assange, head of WikiLeaks, as basically “good grist for historians’ footnotes, and nothing more.”

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The U.S. audit found that shoddy record keeping by the Defense Department left the Pentagon unable to fully account for $8.7 billion it withdrew between 2004 and 2007 from a special fund set up by the U.N. Security Council. Of that amount, the Pentagon “could not provide documentation to substantiate how it spent remaining $2.6 billion.” Now that Dov and Rummy are gone, obviously a new legion of miscreants has taken over.

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The money tit needs to be pulled from the mouths of the defense and oil industry (the latter the Pentagon’s best customer), and pulled from the mercenary armies, general corruptive bloat, and redirected to a US Marshal Plan, the rebuilding of America. This is the only real safeguard against rot, internal, systemic rot, the likes of which brought down Rome, the Soviet Union, the British Empire, and legions of others. Time to strengthen ourselves within without our blood or money pumped through a diseased desire for world hegemony.
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8.57 would have kept teachers working

down with the pentagon

[Booster]

1. I just really don't understand why BOTH parties aren't just

screaming their heads off over this. Amazing that everybody just shrugs their shoulders on this one.

[ensho]

2. they are afraid of the neo cons at the pentagon

so far they are all powerful

[Blue Owl]

3. Nothing in comparison to the $2 TRILLION that went missing on 9/10/01

But then something happened the next day that completely obliterated that news.

[Greyhound]

4. K&R #5.