Rolling Stone details the billions of dollars that have “vanished” in Iraq, more than $8 billion, to be exact. Someone is getting rich, and it sure isn’t the soldiers.
“Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?” asked Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. “But that’s exactly what our government did.”
Someone who wanted to distribute untraceable money to their fellow kleptocrats, that’s who.
Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
— Steve Earle