From: Adam 

Adam wrote:
>
>>> Good grief, if you believe that then you have some troubles with
>>> reality.
>>>
>>> Part of the resistance is as you say, however only part &
frankly the
>>> numbers have been picking up as more locals have been pissed off by
>>> family members killed, imprisoned etc & indeed some have adopted
>>> islamic fascism as their cause hich is right at odds with Saddam &
>>> his people.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>
>> You are the one with serious reality problems if you don't think that
>> some of the millions that vanished with Saddam's regime aren't helping
>> finance some of the violence now.
>>
>> --Gary Wiltshire
>
> Not to mention the millions (billions?) which disappeared from your own
> treasury in the guise of "reconstruction funds" & are
now in the hands
> of all sorts of entertaining characters.
>
> Adam

Some figures:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4216853.stm

"Almost $9bn (œ4.7bn) of Iraqi oil revenue is missing from a fund set
up to reconstruct the country.

The BBC's File On 4 programme has learnt that out of over $20bn raised in
oil revenues during US-led rule, the use of $8.8bn is unaccounted for.

US government auditors criticise the Coalition Provisional Authority for
failing to manage the money properly.

In one case, auditors say the key to a safe holding millions of dollars was
kept in an open backpack in an office.

"There was insufficient internal control to assure that money was
spent for the benefit of the Iraqis, as the UN Security Council resolution
mandated," said the auditors' chief of staff, Ms Ginger Cruz. "


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html

"The auditors have so far referred more than a hundred contracts,
involving billions of dollars paid to American personnel and corporations,
for investigation and possible criminal prosecution. They have also
discovered that $8.8bn that passed through the new Iraqi government
ministries in Baghdad while Bremer was in charge is unaccounted for, with
little prospect of finding out where it has gone. A further $3.4bn
appropriated by Congress for Iraqi development has since been siphoned off
to finance "security"."

""CPA personnel did not review and compare financial, budgetary
and operational performance to planned or expected results," the
auditors explained. One ministry gave out $430m in contracts without its
CPA advisers seeing any of the paperwork. Another claimed to be paying
8,206 guards, but only 602 could be found. There is simply no way of
knowing how much of the $8.8bn has gone to pay for private militias and
into private pockets."


Adam

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