The day BEFORE 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld announced that the U.S. Pentagon has lost track of 2.3 trillion dollars ($2,300,000,000,000). That's right. Tax money gone up in smoke.
Two years into the war (2005) in Iraq, it was reported that the U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds.... That's right. $9,000,000,000 gone up in smoke. In whose pockets did all this money go into? We can just imagine how much more money is wasted (stolen?) that we're not aware of.
And yet.. just recently the top U.S. military officer has said that the Pentagon "may need more emergency war funds." How sweet. All Americans who call themselves "patriotic" should take time from their "tea parties" and should be DEMANDING an accounting of the previous "missing" funds before pushing for more military escalation and money thrown into the Afghanistan quagmire.
Pentagon may need more emergency funds
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN05413947
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