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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River
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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:45 am Post subject: How much is truth I wonder? |
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BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says 40% of Iraq's combat battalions are effective enough to have taken the lead role in fighting the insurgency, a key measure for determining when U.S. forces can withdraw.
The U.S. military expects to complete the handover of responsibility to nearly all of Iraq's army by the end of the year, meaning Iraq's military will rely on U.S. troops primarily for logistical support and for providing airstrikes and heavy artillery. The main fighting will be conducted by Iraqis.
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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"If Tyranny and oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
—James Madison, while a United States Congressman
Billions Wasted In Iraq
Feb. 12, 2006
(CBS) The United States has spent more than a quarter of a trillion dollars during its three years in Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and shelter the troops and rebuild the country.
It is dangerous work, but much of the $50 billion, which is more than the annual budget of the Department of Homeland Security, has been handed out to companies in Iraq with little or no oversight.
Billions of dollars are unaccounted for, and there are widespread allegations of waste, fraud and war profiteering.
So far only one case, the subject of a civil lawsuit that goes to trial this week, has been unsealed. It involves a company called Custer Battles, and as 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft reports, the lawsuit provides a window into the chaos of those early days in Iraq.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/main1302378.shtml |
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