[SpamCop-Social] Re: Isn't this nice - incompetence is infectious!

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Heidi wrote:
> Sylvesterthekat wrote:
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>> "Spamvireslayer" <noone at devnll.spamcop.net> wrote in message
>> news:ctlm51$m9g$1 at news.spamcop.net...
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>>> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1022625,00.html
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>>> Less than than two months after former Coalition Provisional Authority
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>> (CPA)
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>>> administrator L. Paul Bremer received the Presidential Medal of 
>>> Freedom, a
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>> scathing
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>>> audit by a longtime confidante of George W. Bush is bashing Bremer's
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>> agency for
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>>> failing to establish "adequate financial controls," leaving some fiscal
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>> reporting
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>>> systems "either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA 
>>> left
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>> large
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>>> portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, 
>>> kickbacks, and
>>> misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The
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>> report was
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>>> written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special 
>>> inspector
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>> general for
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>>> Iraq reconstruction. His audit cites Bremer for lax accounting (on one
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>> payroll, for
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>>> instance, only 602 of the 8,206 names could be confirmed, with no paper
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>> trail for the
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>>> rest of the cash) and inadequate disclosure (the CPA allowed Iraqi
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>> officials to delay
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>>> reporting the $2.5 billion the interim government received in 
>>> oil-for-food
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>> money last
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>>> spring).
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>> Well no surprises there, this to me is just an example of what typically
>> goes on under this government.
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