If Obama were to load up eight billion dollars in palletized hundred dollar bills

[Bandit]

and send it off to Afghanistan to be distributed in some manner to be specified at a later date, do you think Republicans would have anything to say about it? I don't recall Democrats uttering a single word when Bush* did exactly that only in Iraq..Funny how it all sort of dissappeared as well. Who could have ever predicted that?

[lame54]

1. Did they ever get to Iraq?...

or where they sent straight to the Cayman Islands

[david_vincent]

3. You haven't read the accounts

of entire pallets of US money being left at a specified (by the supposed recipients) place out in the desert, and the Americans simply driving away and leaving it sitting out there for SOMEONE to come along and pick up ???

[lame54]

5. I read that years ago...

and the pictures show pallets wrapped up

they don't the actual money

not only can they not account for it

they haven't proved it was there in the first place

[aquart]

8. No, there are stories of playing with bundles of hundreds in Iraq.

So, yes, they got there.

But I would like audits of the next ten years of buying power of all the young Republicans who staffed that little effort.

[lame54]

9. those bundles could have come from the half that didn't disappear

[PhillySane]

2. Yea,

George W. Bush, fiscal conservative. Military genius. Please don't ever let the Republicans forget what he did. Ever.

[Angry Dragon]

4. bush should have to answer to what happened to the money

He should also be sent a bill for the money............

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Rule #1: IOIYAR Rule #2: See rule # 1

[Enrique]

7. you don't recall all the hearings about it?

Henry Waxman, Byron Dorgan come to mind, probably Senate hearings as well. Back in those days, Congress was interested in what was happening in Iraq.

[Bandit]

10. vaguely, but I seem to recall those hearings had to be held in a basement

and were not mentioned on MSM. I know I was aware at the time because of Internet blogs such as DU and Buzzflash, but I don't recall hearing anything on the NEWS. I also don't recall what the outcome of the hearings were. Evidently they were not very important because they were hushed up in a hurry.

[Enrique]

11. no the hearings were very well known

I often saw Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer being grilled on TV about Iraq. The hearings were even parodied on SNL.

That seems like another era now. Now all this stuff is going on in Libya and Yemen and Pakistan, and we're making decisions about how long we're going to drag out Iraq and Afghanistan, and there's hardly any public debate, hardly any controversy.

[xiamiam]

12. lots of profit in war and chaos..seems to be a good place for a return investment

now that the housing market has tanked:sarcasm:

[DainBramaged]

13. I remember talking AT LENGTH here about that back in the day

and we all pretty much predicted this would happen.

[GeorgeGist]

14. He's got Bernanke to do it for him ...

directly to the banksters; only it's Trillions.