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Making a Killing in the Green Zone at Expense of U.S.
American war makers don't call it the "Green" Zone for nothing .
By Pat Shannan
When Bush took over in 2000, the national debt was $5,674
billion. However, since Sept. 29, 2006, the debt has increased by $1.6 billion
per day. Making matters worse, the cost of the Iraq
war is bleeding America
to death. Bush finances it with high-interest “payday” loans, selling Treasury bills
to China—which
now holds $4 trillion in IOUs. Your personal debt load is $31,100.53. You
indirectly pay for the neo-con war every time you pay for gas, electricity,
food and every other commodity that has increased in price. By the time Bush
leaves office the national debt will be a staggering $10 trillion.
American Free Press
warned America
what would happen—even before Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL). Two years ago, AFP
first reported on plans for the Green Zone, the “Emerald
City” of the New World Order’s Mideast empire. Now it appears these greedy madmen named
their project “green” as a sick “inside joke”: they planned to line their
pockets with endless payoffs of greenish Federal Reserve notes.
In 2003, after “Mission Accomplished,” the Federal Reserve
sent over $4 billion in cash to Iraq.
It loaded tons of U.S. dollars onto palettes and flew them on military aircraft
to the Green Zone—where it promptly disappeared down a black hole and into
unknown pockets.
The first estimate to reconstruct Iraq’s
infrastructure—after “we” destroyed it—was $2.4 billion. Actual costs quickly
jumped to $30 billion and have been rising ever since. After several years,
less than 10 percent of the needed work was done. No-bid “sweetheart”
contracts. “Cost plus,” with no incentive to save; U.S.
companies charged millions for what Iraqi companies would do for thousands; U.S. contract
workers paid $60,000 and far more. Money unaccounted for: $18 billion.
According to investigative journalist and author T.
Christian Miller, in his book, Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost
Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq,
contractors boasted they could steal the taxpayers blind; it was “open season”
on your money.
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