Just heard on MSNBC about the 8.8 billion missing...

[imax2268]

took them long enough to talk about this...I remember seeing it here on DU months ago...

So what are your thoughts on this...where did those billions go...?
Why is Bremer keeping quiet about it...?

What do you think will come of it...?

[shoelace414]

1. We can't talk about this

instead we have to defund the UN because of oil for food.

[papau]

15. and $2000 per month to Annan's son - hell of a scandal?!!!!

:-)

A spokesman for the firm that employed the son of UN chief Kofi Annan (news - web sites) denied that Kojo Annan had ever touched contracts related to Iraq (news - web sites), or was involved in a scandal-plagued oil-for-food scheme.


The denial came after the United Nations (news - web sites) confirmed on Friday that Kojo kept receiving payments from Geneva-based Cotecna until February 2004, years later than had been earlier reported.


~snip~

Kojo Annan left the company when his contract expired at the end of 1998, signing a "no competition" deal in which he promised not to work with any of Cotecna's clients, added Goldschager.


It was under this agreement that the former staffer continued to be under Cotecna's payroll until the start of this year.


"Such compensation is required under Swiss law," the spokesman explained.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041201/wl_mideast_afp/un_annan_iraq_oil_probe_041201175954

[illflem]

2. One word - Halliburton

[imax2268]

5. sounds about right...

it will probably get swept under the rug like every other crooked event during this mis-administration...

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. You got it! Halliburton,

HALLIBURTON, HALLIBURTON, HALLIBURTON!

[ewagner]

3. No that the Peterson trial

is winding down...they need another scandal...

maybe this will be their cause celeb for the next few months.

We can always hope.....

[hatrack]

10. No, they'll follow the Wisconsin hunting massacre till the end of time

They needed a new Peterson case, and now they have it.

[annabanana]

4. a billion here, a billion there......

eventually it starts to add up to real money

(look under Cheney's mattress)

[Redleg]

6. No, but Fox News loves to talk about the Iraq "food for oil" scandal

all the live long day.

[imax2268]

8. tell me about it...

they have the freepers in a uproar about this...it bothers me that the media never adds the fact that Halliburton with DICK at the helm was involved in that to...

[Redleg]

11. Fox News is pure propaganda.

They ought to send those fuckers over to Iraq to see their beloved war up close and personal.

[Nordic]

7. how do you think they paid for the vote fraud?

talk about a slush fund.

Biggest slush fund EVER

[arcane1]

9. there is a connection between the 8.8 billion and the WMD's

one was the fake reason for the war, the other was the real reason

[damntexdem]

12. Oh, what's a few billion dollars among fiends?

After all, it's not like the money was meant for something important.

[imax2268]

13. I was thinking about this just now...

8.8 billion missing, more news about prisoner abuse...

how many people have put in their resignations as of late...?

[Killarney]

14. Conservatives foam at the mouth when someone abuses WIC

or gets double food stamps, but millions of dollars are missing in Iraq and... silence from the conservatives and their media.