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Date: November 15, 2006 9:33:17 AM PST
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Subject: All in the Family: Bush's Billion-Dollar Iraqi Pork Barrel
http://waynemadsenreport.com/
November 15, 2006 -- With the evacuation of U.S. and other
nationals from forward operating locations in Iraq comes the
inevitable stories from individuals who have been in Iraq for three
and a half years. These are the stories that the mainstream media,
embedded with U.S. military forces, dared not report. WMR has
spoken to recent returnees from Iraq who have shared their insights
on the disastrous occupation.
The one common denominator in the criticism of the U.S. occupation
is the damage wrought by the civilians placed in charge of the
Coalition Provisional Authority of Paul "Jerry" Bremer. These
individuals -- particularly Dan Senor and Michael Rubin -- are
blamed for much of the harm inflicted on the Iraqi people and the
current state of chaos in the country.
According to a U.S. source who was stationed in Anbar province,
which has been abandoned by the US to Sunni insurgents, the U.S.
Army's First Cavalry Division was supplied with substandard body
armor supplied under a sole source contract by an Israeli
manufacturer. The sole source contract was let by the U.S. Baghdad
Embassy's Iraq Project and Contracting Office (PCO) and its
predecessor, the Program Management Office.
The Coalition Provisional Authority misappropriated $9 billion of
the $18.4 billion appropriated in 2003 by Congress for Iraq
reconstruction. The Iraq reconstruction fund grew to $22 billion in
the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. The loss of $9 billion was
discovered by U.S. government auditors in late 2004, but the news
of the fraud was purposely not made public until 2005. The Bush
administration wanted to hide the loss of $9 billion by the CPA so
it could not be used as a campaign issue by the Democrats in the
2004 presidential election.
The Coalition Provisional Authority-Inspector General (CPA-IG) was
established on October 29, 2004 (days before the election) and
longtime George W. Bush Texas pal Stuart Bowen, Jr. was appointed
to head the new agency. The Bush administration recently attempted
to disestablish the office but the Senate has amended a veterans
and military construction bill for 2007 to keep the office intact.
What did Stuart Bowen know about missing $9 billion before the
November 2004 election and when did he know it?
Bowen is married to Laura Bush's best friend and served on the
staff of then-Governor Bush, as Counsel to the 2000 Bush-Cheney
transition team, and as Deputy Assistant to the President. He has
also been a partner in the Washington office of Patton Boggs. He
received his law degree from the St. Mary's School of Law in San
Antonio, an institution that has pumped out a number of right-wing
GOP political operatives, including Texas Senator John Cornyn.
Although Bowen has been cited by Democratic Senate and House
members as a supporter-turned-critic of Bush administration waste
in Iraq, Congress has a duty to ask him the age old Washington
question. After Bowen took over as Inspector General on October 29,
2004, what did he know about the missing $9 billion and when did he
know it. If Bowen knew about the missing $9 billion before Election
Day -- November 2, 2004 -- why did he not make the information
known then? Or was he named by his friend Bush to ensure that no
one in the CPA spoke about the stolen billions -- serving as a last
minute "October Surprise" that could have benefited the Kerry
campaign?
The Coalition Provisional Authority's and Iraq PCO's only non-
governmental organization (NGO) recipient of funds in Anbar
province was the Iraqi Red Crescent. However, U.S. sources on the
ground report that the Red Crescent in Anbar primarily used its
U.S. funds to purchase weapons for the Sunni insurgents and move
them around in ambulances, also bought with Coalition Provisional
Authority and PCO funds.
U.S. CPA supplied funding for Anbar Red Crescent so it could
purchase and transport arms for insurgents killing U.S. troops.
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