by Abby Zimet
In Congress on Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich told it straight on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: billions of dollars “gone missing,” as in stolen, by warlords, drug lords, corrupt government officials “underwritten by the lives of our troops.” While people at home lose jobs, homes, savings, schooling, pensions, hope.
“In a little more than a year the United States flew $12 billion in cash to Iraq, much of it in $100 bills, shrink wrapped and loaded onto pallets. Vanity Fair reported in 2004 that “at least $9 billion” of the cash had “gone missing, unaccounted for.” $9 billion. Today, we learned that suitcases of $3 billion in cash have openly moved through the Kabul airport.
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