wanna bet some of that money is in US warmonger bank accounts? On Friday, December 5, 2014 2:56:56 PM UTC-6, MJ wrote: > > > > *US Taxpayers Spent Billions on an Iraqi Army With 50,000 ‘Ghost’ Soldiers > *By Nick Sorrentino > <http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/author/nick-sorrentino/> on > December 1, 2014 > > The original headline for the attached article is, > > *The Bush Administration Spent Billions on an Iraqi Army With 50,000 > ‘Ghost’ Soldiers. *Anyone who reads us knows that we have no love for the > Bush Administration which as far as we are concerned was just the first > half of the BOBAMA era aka OBOMBYA era. But the attached story does not > indicate that *ONLY* the Bush administration allocated billions for > phantom Iraqi soldiers. I am pretty sure there are and were plenty of > “ghost soldiers” in Iraq over the past 6 years too. > > That being said, and that major mistake by the author of the article > noted, the news is still important. > > War is hell, foggy, and expensive. This is doubly true in the Middle East. > > (From JuanCole.com) The Bush Administration spent something like $800 > billion in direct costs on the Iraq War, including $20 billion for > rebuilding the Iraqi Army after viceroy Paul Bremer abolished . . . the > Iraqi Army in 2003. When health care for wounded veterans over their > lifetimes is figured in, some suggest the war will have cost trillions of > dollars. It is not clear what the US received from that investment. Not > security. The Baghdad government is de facto allied with Iran. And the > Obama administration has deemed Daesh so much a threat to US national > security that President Obama felt it necessary to send the Air Force back > in to bomb the country in 2014! The Bush senior administration bombed Iraq > in 1991, and the Clinton administration bombed it in 1998. So, in other > words, invading and occupying the country seems to have had very little > impact on whether it represents a threat to US security in Washington’s > eyes, or whether the US feels the need to bomb it.. The $800 bn was > largely wasted or stolen. If you want to find it, get a shovel and dig > around in back yards in Fairfax County, to which ex-US officials and > contractors involved in looting both countries tend to retire.* > > Click here for the article. > <http://www.juancole.com/2014/12/billions-iraqi-soldiers.html> > > *Though there is plenty in Fairfax as we have noted in the past, those > taxpayer dollars have been spread throughout the Middle East and Europe as > well. > > > http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/12/the-us-spent-billions-on-an-iraqi-army-with-50000-ghost-soldiers/ > >
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