From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"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

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