Obama still sending $4 billion US taxpayer dollars each month to Iraq, same as during war, US IG says $800,000 million each week is laundered illegally out of Iraq

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11/1/12, “US Spends as Much in Iraq Now as During Combat Ops,” Townhall Finance

“The US is not engaged in combat in Iraq, but it is still spending $4 billion a month in Iraq, which is about what the US was spending when it had combat forces there….

For the record. Iraqi auditors believe as much as US $800 million is being sent out of the country illegally each week, according to a report by the 

• US Special Inspector General released Tuesday. 

His findings point to widespread money laundering and focus attention on lax oversight at Iraq’s central bank, which is at the heart of a probe into alleged financial wrongdoing involving its former governor and other top officials.

Comment: That is more than $41 billion a year with nothing to show for it and no accountability and after the departure of US troops.

Hmmm… that raises a question about what are the savings, if any, from the withdrawal of US soldiers. 

The answer is that the post-withdrawal costs to the US appear as large as or larger than when the US had combat forces deployed in Iraq.”… via Lucianne


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