{"article":{"id":123241,"heading":"$9 Billion lost, Halliburton Looting, and Bush wants $82 Billion more?","author":"bellaciao","created":"2005-03-02 06:28:35","modified":"2013-11-11 00:32:15","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:32:15","article":"

The United States interim government, the CPA, run by Paul Bremer, and Dick Cheney’s\r\nfirm Halliburton have been shamed by whistleblowers documenting blatant fraud.\r\nThe whistleblowers have provided evidence of massive, systematic (ie intentional)\r\nfraud at Halliburton. The US Inspector General just reported $9 billion is missing,\r\nthe CPA lost it - no trace of it whatsoever - yet Bush and his lapdog Congress\r\nwant our children to pay\r\n$82 billion more for this illegal and immoral war.
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\r\nThe $82 billion for the war amounts to: Should we keep pouring money into a corrupt\r\nsystem, or should we investigate and fix the system? Think about the fraud described\r\nbelow, and ask yourself, \"Why isn’t\r\nthere an investigation?\"
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\r\nHalliburton has over-charged at least $61 million in gas, employee rosters were\r\n’off’ by\r\n8,000 employees, and they systematically\r\ntook advantage of\r\ncost-plus contracts to milk the system.
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\r\n\r\nThe interim gov’t run by Bremer, the CPA, was just as bad, if not worse. The\r\nCPA lost $9 billion, half of it Iraqi oil money. One person with an excel spreadsheet\r\nwas in charge of all CPA accounting. CPA practices included directing purchases\r\nto ’preferred suppliers’ and stuffing\r\ngunnysacks with<\/p>\r\n

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$100,000\r\ncash bricks to pay the bills. Whistleblowers have accused CPA (US gov’t)\r\nofficials of asking for $300,000 bribe money. Controlling both houses of Congress,\r\nthe\r\nRepublicans hold the keys, yet they refuse to investigate.<\/p>\r\n

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A helicopter was loaded with 12 tons of cash bricks, $1.4\r\nbillion that never arrived at the\r\nbank. For this kind of work, Bush awarded Paul Bremer a medal of freedom.
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\r\nThis photo is from\r\na US soldier that took part in a similar operation to Irbil, Iraq:
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\r\nOne\r\nof our larger transport helicopters moved $1.6 billion in funds to the central\r\nbank in Irbil for reconstruction efforts. Each of these ‘bricks’ is US$100,000!\r\nWe filled two of these helicopters full (CH-47 Chinooks)-it was too heavy a load\r\nfor my smaller assault helicopters to\r\ncarry (over 12 tons).<\/i>
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\r\nIs this soldier’s letter describing the same transaction as the lost $1.4 billion?\r\nI don’t know, but if not- how many billion dollar helicopter loads of cash bricks\r\nwere delievered to this bank in Irbil?
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\r\nDoing the math on the packing slip from the picture, $64 million multiplied by\r\n37 pallets equals $2.4 billion, a billion more than the\r\nlost load. Could this be one of the missing billion?<\/b>
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\r\nThe evidence above is bad enough, but to top it off-
\r\nHalliburton has been:<\/b> in\r\ncharge of pumping Iraq’s oil,
\r\nand lo and behold:<\/b> the\r\nmeters were broken!!!
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\r\nAt the start of the war Halliburton received a contract to put out the oil well\r\nfires, only later was it revealed that this contract also gave Halliburton the\r\nrights to pump the oil.
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\r\nNow two years later we find that nobody knows how much oil has been pumped\r\nout of Iraq by\r\nHalliburton<\/b>. Given the systematic fraud already uncovered, do you really\r\nthink the broken meters are pure coincidence? What better way to make money hand\r\nover fist, all the while the oil prices are sky high. Where is the investigation?\r\nThe Republican lemmings in Congress ought to be\r\nprosecuted for criminal negligence.
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\r\nThe Halliburton\r\ncorruption scandal is exactly like the 2000 and 2004\r\nElection Fraud scandals- the media didn’t cover it, so ’it never happened’.\r\nPeople that discuss news stories not reported by the mainstream news are ’conspiracy\r\nkooks’.
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\r\nWake up America.<\/i>
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\r\nUS soldiers have not had enough armor plated vehicles or even bulletproof vests\r\nwhile Halliburton has systematically ripped us off in\r\nIraq. Where is the outrage!
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\r\nCheney is still paid\r\n$1 million per year by Halliburton and he has 433,333\r\nHalliburton stock options. Somebody please just say it, on tv- the Cheney-Halliburton\r\nconnection is a conflict of interest<\/span>-\r\nand it is rather obvious that they are feeding at the trough at our expense.\r\nWhy isn’t there an investigation?
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\r\n\r\nIt seems that Congresspeople are either in on it, or they’re afraid of those\r\nin power. What other logical explanation is there for this documented fraud receiving\r\nno investigation. Instead Bremer received a medal of freedom and Halliburton\r\nnew contracts and a bonus.
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\r\nWhat a joke... and Bremer, Cheney and Halliburton are laughing all the way to\r\nthe bank.
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\r\nThe joke’s on us America.
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