By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted, overcharged or poorly tracked $10 billion in taxpayer money, federal investigators said Thursday.
The three top auditors overseeing contract work in Iraq told a House committee that Defense and State department officials condoned or otherwise allowed poor accounting, repeated work delays, bloated expenses and payments for work shoddily or never done by U.S. contractors.
That problem could worsen, the Government Accountability Office said, given limited improvement so far by the Department of Defense even as the Bush administration prepares to boost the U.S. presence in Iraq.
I think it does rise to that level and the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney both is the only course of action for Democrats.
2007-02-15 08:45:16 · 12 answers · asked by jl_jack09 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Proof that we were lied to to start a war and the fact that so many people died for that lie. Yes, that is a high crime. But, not for what you listed.
Clinton was impeached for less.
2007-02-15 08:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by Groovy 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I always wonder why people think Democrats would be less prone to taking care of their campaign contributors and lining their own pockets? This kind of waste has been going on ever since Congress did not relax the income tax laws after WWII, when most of the pork barrel spending started. The Congress didn't want to give up all that money they were confiscating from the taxpayers. Do you really think there was that much government debt before all those expenditures during the Vietnam War? Maybe the contractors that gained the most financially from that war lined the Democrats pockets that were in power back then.
2007-02-15 08:51:08 · answer #2 · answered by smoothie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No reasonable person would support such hateful nonsense. The Churhc has done everything possible to prevent and encourage the punishment of anyone harming children. The article is obviously generated by the lawyers suing the Church and the NY Times have been their accomplices in spreading misinformation. I have not seen a accurate story on this problem from the NY Times but instead highly prejudiced reporting full of halt truths and mostly innuendos. This particular story is not unlike others where all the witnesses are too old or incompetent to testify. There is not real evidence here of any complicit actions or inaction from the Pope assisting anyone harming children. The story is just anti-Catholic nonsense. God bless! In Christ Fr. Joseph
2016-05-24 04:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
High Crimes In Office Have you been sleep for most of your life_
Government buys on contracts where the items cost 100% more than the same item off the shelf
Going on for more than 50 years.
Supreme Court judges appointed based upon political party beliefs and not jurisprudence.
Congress up for sale to the highest paying lobbyist group!
VA does not pay compensation to Retired Veterans. They give the award, for X amount of dollars, then take that moneys out of the retires retired pay check! The retires retired pay is reduced by the amount of the so call VA compensation award!
Troops in Iraq do not have enough ammunition.
German military vehicles are better built than the
paper thin American ones that or troops are dying in.
2007-02-15 09:03:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Indeed it is. But don't count on impeachment. Pelosi said she won't do it. Waste money. By the time the trial over little George would be about done anyway. The best the Congress can do is keep Georgie out of more trouble until Jan. 20, 2009.
2007-02-15 09:26:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are delusional. The criminals are the ones wasting or stealing the money, if that is indeed happening.
War profiteers have been around as long as there have been wars. You cannot justify taking action against the President because there may be unknown persons stealing from the US. Find the bad guys and take your revenge on them.
2007-02-15 08:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-02-15 08:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, high crimes is lying to a federal grand jury, lying to the american people, and selling pardons.
2007-02-15 09:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by infobrokernate 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think I have found where some of the money has gone
2007-02-15 09:02:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-02-15 09:11:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋