BILLIONS FOR CONTRACTORS, NOT SO MUCH FOR DEFENSE

Obama and others on the Left need to start hammering away at McWAR's and the GOP's reputation for being "strong on defense."

Iraq Spending Ignored Rules, Pentagon Says
By JAMES GLANZ
Published: May 23, 2008
NY Times

A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in American taxpayer money spent by the United States Army on contractors in Iraq has found that almost none of the payments followed federal rules and that in some cases, contracts worth millions of dollars were paid for despite little or no record of what, if anything, was received.

The audit also found a sometimes stunning lack of accountability in the way the United States military spent some $1.8 billion in seized or frozen Iraqi assets, which in the early phases of the conflict were often doled out in stacks or pallets of cash.

More on the pallets of cash here.