No wonder $9 billion is missing. The AP:
U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says.
Because the country lacked a functioning banking system, contractors and Iraqi ministry officials were paid with bills taken from a basement vault in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces that served as headquarters for the Coalition Provisional Authority, former CPA official Frank Willis said.
Maybe I'm naive to how things are done with government contractors, but don't most of them have bank accounts and headquarters with accounts receivable departments... in the U.S.? And isn't the Pentagon... in the U.S.?
What the hell kind of banana republic are we living in now? And how can you Bush-apologists stand to look yourselves in the mirror? This is just embarassing. I mean, Bremer received the Medal of Freedom! Deluded! Deluded, deluded, deluded. We've crossed over. America has become a fairy tale.