Report: tens of millions wasted in Iraq? What do you think?

Question

according to Yahoo news (AP story) says tens of millions have been wasted in Iraq...

now pro-war or anti-war, I think these funds should be watched more closely... and I think it's a bit scary...

full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_reconstruction_waste;_ylt=AjSYFXrBfItEiYSiphAuqGGyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

now granted... government has waste in ever field... heck private business has waste... as far as that goes...

but does this exceed even the expected levels of government waste?

I mean... a million or so... ok... to be expected... but tens of millions!

so... we can't fight for our freedom without wasting tens of billions?

if the revolutionary army wasted like this, we would have never won our freedom in the first place...

heck... with these attitudes... I would "borrow" some too... most of you apparently don't care what's missing or wasted as long as we "win"

I serously doubt they "waste billions"... billions is a very large number...

are Repubclians in favor of wasting money? this isn't defense money.. this is money that was wasted...

am I the only one that sees a difference here?

Answer 1

The Iraq war is a way for the rich to get richer and steal taxpayer dollars right under the taxpayers noses and say that the money was spent on rebuilding the Iraq country but now it is harder for the government to get away with it because of watch dog groups that expose the corruption.

Answer 2

Have you ever checked the money wasted by Congress every year? The money wasted by the bureaucrats in the Social services system. They waste Billions every year not even counting the war. If Congress and the Government had to follow accounting laws themselves we would have a budget surplus that would be hard to read.

Answer 3

You can't get a thoughtful answer when you have people that reply this way:

HOW MUCH MONEY IS YOUR FREEDOM WORTH?

they still seem to think that a war in Iraq is protecting their freedom. They don't care about the costs in lives or money. How can they if they don't understand anything about it.

Answer 4

democraps like this "g" only complain about money spent defending the country.

its well worth it.

hows the trillions the democraps have spent on education working out?

the democraps have no plan for iraq. they do not want to invade any country in that cess pool calling these dictatorships autonomus countries.

therefore they can not be for doing anything about terrorism since alqueda moves around in iraq, iran, pakistan, afghanistan, lybia...all these "autonomous countries the democraps love so much.

so their plan is to pick their ***.


and thats a memo

Answer 5

"Governments" are a funny sort of institution. They consist of people You don't know who make decisions that will affect Your life without asking You Your opinion. Then They spend money that isn't Theirs on things that You don't want. And then to add insult to injury They don't bring back Your change!

Answer 6

The whole venture was a waste of time and resources...when viewed in that light, hundred of millions, nay billions have been wasted.

Answer 7

Name one thing the government has touched and there wasn't waste of tax dollars. That is one reason they have no damn business getting their hands on healthcare!

Answer 8

America won... Bush Got the Oil, he's rich, conservatives rich, Americas secure, democrats will lose once again... oh hell, conservatives won, Bush is smart with his campiagns of lies, he is smart he reseved the conservatives future to control America.

Answer 9

war costs money.
unless you prefer iranian rule.

Answer 10

HOW MUCH MONEY IS YOUR FREEDOM WORTH?