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<blockquote data-quote="Upsmule" data-source="post: 1177785" data-attributes="member: 45962"><p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">“These are things we pointed out in 2005,” Deputy Inspector General Glenn Furbish told Bloomberg News about problems with the reconstruction effort that led to massive waste, fraud and abuse. “They remained until the military left. That was the most frustrating issue I encountered.”</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">For his part, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/stuart-bowen/" target="_blank">Mr. Bowen</a> told Al-Monitor, he had identified $1.6 billion in benefits to the reconstruction effort stemming directly from the work of his office.</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">His report is particularly critical of one effort, a $4 billion slush fund known as the Commanders’ Emergency Response Program.</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">CERP provided bundles of U.S. dollars to junior officers to use as “walking around money” to compensate civilian victims of U.S. military action and for short-term reconstruction projects.</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Even now, a decade later, the report finds, it is impossible to say what benefits the $4 billion CERP program actually bought. Commanders’ record-keeping was incomplete, inconsistent and inexact.</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Read more: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/6/watchdog-blasts-us-billions-wasted-iraq-reconstruc/#ixzz2aMreHeXZ" target="_blank">Watchdog blasts U.S. billions 'wasted' in Iraq reconstruction costs - Washington Times</a> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=ctd-fI3Dar4z1uacwqm_6r&u=washtimes" target="_blank">@washtimes on Twitter</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Upsmule, post: 1177785, member: 45962"] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica]“These are things we pointed out in 2005,” Deputy Inspector General Glenn Furbish told Bloomberg News about problems with the reconstruction effort that led to massive waste, fraud and abuse. “They remained until the military left. That was the most frustrating issue I encountered.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica]For his part, [URL="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/stuart-bowen/"]Mr. Bowen[/URL] told Al-Monitor, he had identified $1.6 billion in benefits to the reconstruction effort stemming directly from the work of his office.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica]His report is particularly critical of one effort, a $4 billion slush fund known as the Commanders’ Emergency Response Program.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica]CERP provided bundles of U.S. dollars to junior officers to use as “walking around money” to compensate civilian victims of U.S. military action and for short-term reconstruction projects.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica]Even now, a decade later, the report finds, it is impossible to say what benefits the $4 billion CERP program actually bought. Commanders’ record-keeping was incomplete, inconsistent and inexact.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Helvetica] Read more: [url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/6/watchdog-blasts-us-billions-wasted-iraq-reconstruc/#ixzz2aMreHeXZ]Watchdog blasts U.S. billions 'wasted' in Iraq reconstruction costs - Washington Times[/url] Follow us: [URL="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=ctd-fI3Dar4z1uacwqm_6r&u=washtimes"]@washtimes on Twitter[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
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