How many hundreds of billions of dollars of tax money is GONE in Iraq sewer?

Question

For no good reason.

Answer 1

According to government documents we have installed a little over 22 miles of sewer lines in Iraq at a cost of 485 million dollars .This is substantially lower then the billions you are tossing around as having been spent on sewer lines .

Answer 2

50 billion unaccounted-for out of a quarter trillion spent.

Profiteering and cronyism and plain incompetence are the reasons.

""CBS) This story originally aired on Feb. 12, 2006.

The United States has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars during its three years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the troops and rebuild the country.

It is dangerous work, but much of the $50 billion, which is more than the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security, has been handed out to companies in Iraq with little or no oversight.

Billions of dollars are unaccounted for, and there are widespread allegations of waste, fraud and war profiteering. ""

Answer 3

The Iraq War money machine meter is probably spinning as fast as U.S. National Debt Clock.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.55 billion per day since September 30, 2005!

Answer 4

That money doesn't just flow down the drain you full. It provides jobs through not only military personnel but through the entire management of the military. Investment in technology in the US's security little is wasted and almost all of it stays in America. The real question is how much did you waste on welfare. Because most of that money goes to the drug industry and down the sewer. Heck, I am not even an American and I can't see what you hippies are complaining about.

Answer 5

It's not *all* gone. A lot of it is in the corporate bank accounts of Halliburton, McDonnell Douglas, GE, and the many cronies of the Smirking Chimp who got blank cheque, no bid contracts with the Junta.


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Answer 6

It's approaching $500 Billion soon...

Answer 7

Don't talk about how much tax money is going over there! That make me sooo mad. My stepmom was Over there in Iraq! She worked her but off for two years.

Answer 8

Tell us!!

I mean Kerry, Kennedy and Hill-Hill herself wanted us over there

(see Congress records)

silly!!

Answer 9

we won't see the dividends but our grandchildren will when the middles east is governed by democracies and not theocracies or dictators.