From LBN: Cheney Has Found a Way To Get The Funds To Run His Office

[Wiley50]

Guards steal $282 million from a bank in Baghdad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2913713

BAGHDAD: In an astonishing heist, guards at a bank here made off with more than a quarter-billion dollars on Wednesday, according to an official at the Interior Ministry.

The robbery, of $282 million from the Dar Es Salaam bank, a private financial institution, raised more questions than it answered, and officials were tight-lipped about the crime. The local police said two guards engineered the robbery, but an official at the Interior Ministry said three guards were involved.

Both confirmed that the stolen money was in American dollars, not Iraqi dinars. It was unclear why the bank had that much money on hand in dollars, or how the robbers managed to move such a large amount without being detected.

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1. That doesn't even make me blink.

It should, but it doesn't.

[Ishoutandscream2]

2. Get on the Batphone and call Batman!

The Penguin is on the loose! " Wah, wah, wah, go fuck yourself, wah, wah, wah."

[Miss Chybil]

3. Why so many American dollars in Iraq?

Hmmmm.... Good question.

[napi21]

4. Maybe it's the missing money from the Bremmer era!

They've been saying they can't find what happened to all those US dollars!!!!

[slampoet]

5. Why can't Cheney just go back to selling Contra Cocaine?

[NV Whino]

6. Um, let's see...

was it still on the pallets?

[XOKCowboy]

7. $282 Mil? Piffle. Small change..

Heck it takes almost twice that much to run the War Against Iraq for just one day.

Big Time :sarcasm:

[whistle]

8. Just like Dr. Mabuse!!!! Any German DUers will know what I am

...referring to and now I suggest other DUers not familiar with this fictional character rent or borrow the videos. It is most timely by the events we are witnessing here in America at this moment!

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Doctor Mabuse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr. Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques, made famous by the three films German director Fritz Lang made about him over a period of almost 40 years. Although the character was designed to deliberately mimic pulp-style villains in the mold of Dr. Fu Manchu and Fantômas, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques' aim was both to capture the commercial success of such pulp tales and to make political comment on the establishment of the day, in much the same way that the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari had done just a few years previously.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Mabuse

http://www.mabuse.de/mab-drmabuse.mhtml

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/35/mabuse.html


I will also suggest that the neocon movement is also based on plagiarized ideas of the Dr. Mabuse character from the writings of Norbert Jacques and the films by Fritz Lang and that the neocons have in fact been coned by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz who stole 90% of their ideas from this fictionalized crime character from the 1920s and 1930s. Watch the films and if you can read German check out the book by the same name.

[countmyvote4real]

9. WTF are our soldiers and dollars still there to be killed and stolen?

Our dollars should only be present in an "Oops, we goofed" campaign to restore Iraq's infrastructure back to what it was when the US destroyed it.

The lie to invade was apparent to me before the invasion and subsequent occupation. We're now going on five years and it's just getting worse. Why can't we make this right?

[JDPriestly]

10. My husband's theory about the stolen money: Blackwater did it.