From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2004.11.29.02.54.39.693628{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:26:11 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>
>>
>> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
>> news:pan.2004.11.29.00.26.35.30368{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:08:46 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> "Jeff Shultz" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:pan.2004.11.28.03.05.30.948449{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>>>>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:31:28 -0600, Robert G Lewis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Jeff Shultz"
 wrote in message
>>>>>> news:pan.2004.11.27.06.52.50.101261{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
>>>>>>> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:14:41 -0600, Robert G
Lewis wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Adam Flinton"
 wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:41a7a82d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>>>> Gee how nice given it is their money.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Remind me to take you money & then
spend it in order to help you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Adam
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Gee Isn't that what the conservatives
accuse liberals of ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone think that the idea of simply
handing out large bunches
>>>>>>> of cash at this point would be counterproductive?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends on how it is perceived. If it is actually
seen as going to
>>>>>> the Iraqi's ( local contractors instead of US
companies) for Iraqi
>>>>>> projects then it may be productive .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bob Lewis
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, but that's not the same - that is actually what is
happening, from
>>>>> what I can tell.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I'm seeing some indication of it but not what we should be seeing. I
>>>> have seen a lot of stories saying that its not happening
that much. I
>>>> also recall seeing that a lot of the money budgeted was not spent.
>>>>
>>>> Bob Lewis
>>>
>>> This isn't the budgeted stuff. Totally different fund - remember those
>>> multi-million stashes of cash that troops were digging out of Saddam's
>>> palaces right after the fall of Baghdad? That's where these funds are
>>> coming from.
>>>
>>> Less beauracracy, more action.
>>>
>>>
>> So we are taking Iraqi money and then giving some of it back without
>> their
>> input to them. How nice. You might want to look over the audits of the
>> CPA.
>>
>> Which doesn't excuse our not spending the money we promised.
>>
>> Bob Lewis
>
> You seem to want the CPA to be audited on one side... and be freewheeling
> spenders on the other.
>
>
Nah just wanted them to do the right thing.  CPA is gone now. Audits have
been done, seems they didn't follow their own rules a bit of the time.

Bob Lewis

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