Anyone happen to see $12 billion laying around?

[Judge Smails]

<p>There is no other way to describe this but criminal negligence.</p><h1><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008189,00.html">How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish</a></h1><p>The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent. </p><p>The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee. </p><p>In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.</p>

[Jughead]

I think Im gonna be sick....<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/mad.gif" border="0" />

[Fez4PrezN2008]

I think the shipments got mixed up, wasn't that $ supposed to be randomly handed in out New Orleans?

[torker]

<p><em><font face="courier new,courier">I just found twelve billion dollars someone forgot</font></em></p><p><em><font face="courier new,courier">It's days like this that push me over the brink</font></em></p>

[Jughead]

<strong>Fez4PrezN2008</strong> wrote:<br />I think the shipments got mixed up, wasn't that $ supposed to be randomly handed in out New Orleans?<p>&nbsp;No it got there. too.....<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/bye.gif" border="0" /></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<font size="2">believe me it's not lost...&nbsp; somebody is having a nice fucking party as we type</font>

[BoondockSaint]

<strong>Fez4PrezN2008</strong> wrote:<br />I think the shipments got mixed up, wasn't that $ supposed to be randomly handed in out New Orleans? <p>No, you're thinking of the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2852181" target="_blank">$300 million</a> FEMA wants back from New Orleans.</p>

[Gvac]

If you didn't just shrug and laugh at news like this you'd lose your mind.

[Jughead]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br />If you didn't just shrug and laugh at news like this you'd lose your mind. <p>&nbsp;I need help in my brain..How much is it an hour???.... </p>

[PapaBear]

<strong>jughead46041</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br />If you didn't just shrug and laugh at news like this you'd lose your mind. <p>&nbsp;I need help in my brain..How much is it an hour???.... </p><p><strong><font size="4">$12</font><font size="-2"> </font><font size="4">000</font><font size="-2"> </font><font size="4">000</font><font size="-2"> </font><font size="4">000 divided by 34</font><font size="-2"> </font><font size="4">008 = $352</font><font size="-2"> </font><font size="4">858.151</font></strong></p><p><font size="1">I think I got it right. I could be off by an hour or so.</font></p>

[trig]

i wonder where the next several trillion will end up....

[Stankfoot]

<p><font size="2">This story has been around for years but was ignored until the Democrats took back Congress.</font></p><p>&nbsp;<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>US Was Big Spender in Days before Iraq Handover</strong><br />&nbsp;By Sue Pleming<br />&nbsp;Reuters</font></font> </p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&nbsp;Wednesday 22 June 2005</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;&lt;snip&gt;</p><p>&quot;<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Contractors were told to turn up with big duffel bags to pick up their payments and some were paid from the back of pick-up trucks.</font></font> </p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One picture shows grinning CPA officials standing in front of a pile of cash said to be worth $2 million to be paid to a security contractor.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut, a Republican, said the photograph disturbed him. &quot;It looks a little loose to me,&quot; he said, of the smiling officials.&quot;</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[KC2OSO]

<p><img src="http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/images7/1point4_billion_cash.jpg" border="0" width="378" height="324" /></p><p>oops!&nbsp; They lost it.&nbsp; oh well.&nbsp;</p>

[Yerdaddy]

To be fair, as Paul Bremmer pointed out in his congressional testimony yesterday, the money was Iraqi money the US withdrew from the UN Oil-For-Food Fund so clearly it was Kofi Annan's fault.

[Yerdaddy]

<strong>KC2OSO</strong> wrote:<br /><p><img src="http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/images7/1point4_billion_cash.jpg" border="0" width="378" height="324" /></p><p>oops!&nbsp; They lost it.&nbsp; oh well.&nbsp;</p><p>I know this isn't the Sig Favors thread but can I get this pic made into a sig with the caption changed to &quot;The CPA loaded a chopper with $1.4 billion and all I got was this stupid sig pic.&quot;? Thank you.</p>

[A.J.]

My Marine buddy told me he used that money to pay off tribal leaders!&nbsp; He lied to me!