There are difficulties in gettng the money to the local contractor levels. Too much being skimmed off the top before it is doled out. There is still some corruption at the top and according to our CA guys here, these issus are being worked out. But the money is Iraqi money now and less US money. Iraq does not have near the level of checks and balances that we have to ensure that federal funds get to where they are supposed to go, and so it is a lot easier for the Iraqi officials to keep more for either them or their own special interests. This is still a new government and so obviously there are a lot of things that need to be worked out. Fortunately eliminating or reducing the levels of corruption here are not keys to getting us home sooner. Security of the country is. Almost all of the provinces in Iraq have had their security turned over to the IA, putting them up front and us as support, which puts us closer to going home, or Afghanistan.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, G Money wrote: > Really? > > There were reports here a few weeks ago that Iraq was hoarding the > surplus..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281001 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
