What in God's Name is Going On? (Al Franken)

[Logansquare]

A U.S. senator and two journalists at major newspapers admit that they've never heard of the missing $8.8 billion in Iraq (!)


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/al-franken/what-in-godas-name-is-g_1221.html

"Meanwhile, the Coalition Provisional Authority, which we ran, has lost 8.8 billion dollars. By lost, I mean it’s totally unaccounted for. Not only has Congress not "looked into" this $8.8 billion and who might have it now, but it seems that some members are completely unaware that this staggering sum, which was supposed to go toward rebuilding Iraq, is missing. The Sunday morning after the White House Correspondents dinner, I ran into Senator George Allen at a brunch thrown by John McLaughlin and his wife. Allen had never heard of the missing $8.8 billion, or at least that's what he told me. And he's on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Stunned, I went up to Susan Page of USA Today and her husband Carl Lubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News, two veteran Washington political reporters, and told them about Allen’s ignorance of this huge scandal, which has no doubt contributed to hatred for America and the deaths of our troops. There’s less electricity in Iraq now than there was before we invaded Iraq.

Turns out that Page and Lubsdorf had also never heard of the unaccounted-for $8.8 billion. For a moment I thought that maybe I had been imagining things."

[LSparkle]

1. The Men In Black must have zapped them

No more memory, no more problem.

[tk2kewl]

2. Maybe bush should start looking under the furniture for it.

:shrug:

[RobertSeattle]

4. Here's a picture...

Not Here (yuk yuk yuk)

[Warpy]

3. Do you think these guys bother to KEEP UP??????

99% of their activity is dedicated to fundraising for their next run for reelection. They have office staff that is expected to sift through important stuff for them in the free time they have between mailing out solicitations for funds.

Trust me, no GOP underling is going to inform his boss of how dirty the GOP's favorite donors have been in Iraq, and how much money they've stolen.

[Logansquare]

7. Yeah, actually the reporters not knowing scared me more

Maybe they're not administration stooges; they're just stupid.

[RobertSeattle]

5. What an idiot

I good pol never admits her doesn't know something. Mumble something about "I'm looking into it", etc.

[DawnneOBTS]

6. My guess...

is that all of the money, along with all of the FEMA money Florida residents didn't get went to "fix" voting machines and create new ones designed to elect the asshole. Technology isn't cheap.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Invasion of the body snatchers? All that is left of 50% of Americans

are their bodies...the minds have gone in the constant stream of propaganda and consumerism!

[BadGimp]

9. Poor Al

He does not understand that we are fighting the terraists.

Fearless leaders and their lapdog media compliants can not be bothered to talk about the theff of billions of dollars...

Silly silly man.

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