$125 Billion in Iraq? "Thousands of dollars stuffed into pizza boxes"

Seems like the same senators crying over the bailouts right now should have really been crying over all of this going on, but hey, no problem when it came to giving Bush blank checks for Iraq. Thousands stuffed in pizza boxes and brown bags but they scream about taking care of the tax payers in trouble because of what they did?

Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers
By JAMES GLANZ, C.J. CHIVERS and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: February 14, 2009
Federal authorities examining the early, chaotic days of the $125 billion American-led effort to rebuild Iraq have significantly broadened their inquiry to include senior American military officers who oversaw the program, according to interviews with senior government officials and court documents.

Before he was shot on a road north of Baghdad, Mr. Stoffel drew a portrait worthy of a pulp crime novel: tens of thousands of dollars stuffed into pizza boxes and delivered surreptitiously to the American contracting offices in Baghdad, and payoffs made in paper sacks that were scattered in “dead drops” around the Green Zone, the nerve center of the United States government’s presence in Iraq, two senior federal officials said.

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