Iraq's Missing Billions
The British and American coalition which had overthrown Saddam Hussein was given a very special responsibility by the United Nations. It was given trusteeship of more than 20 billion dollars that belonged to the people of Iraq. Over the next 40 months, it spent almost all of it. Yet, no one can account for where it all went. Literally billion of dollars have gone missing.
In this revealing documentary, Dr. Ali Fadhil, a young Iraqi doctor, sets out to learn what has led to the catastrophic results when money was put into the care of the U.S. led coalition. What emerges is a disturbing tale of corruption and fraud. As word spread of the kind of money that could be made in Iraq, foreign contractors negotiated deals fast and furiously.
There was no oversight of projects. "As trustees, we did a very poor job," admits Frank Willis, a senior member of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). "We should have spent the money on the Iraqi people, rather than putting it in the pockets of foreign business." According to the United States' own figures, Iraq's essential services are worse than before the war, with the country producing less electricity, oil or clean water.
They came in as guardians . We believe so, but gored the poor Iraqi citizens.
In democracy we ask for accountability, UN gave American and British the trusteeship of more than 20 billion dollars that belonged to the people of Iraq. The American and British cannot simply walk away with no accountability for missing more than 20 billion dollars that belonged to the people of Iraq. It is American and British government sponsored stealing in broad daylight, theft and plundering, and it is criminal.
The world wants the American and the British governments come up clean and tell us where has the money gone, and take responsibility to return the missing money back to the people of Iraq.
Do something. Gather together to run and elect better people.
@Memo: Get a proxy which uses a different country.
@Chigwalla is wise in that he states not to judge regular Americans by those who are able to manipulate the govt/political/administration system.
However, they have abdicated their responsibility for that govt, claiming there is nothing they can do. That is a huge lie and excuse. If they pull their heads out of their ignorant backsides, they will find they have TIME GREED. Meaning they absolutely refuse to spend 1 second, let alone 1 hour per month gathering together to see to it wise decent honorable incorruptible people are running for all offices from the major political parties, in numbers, so someone decent will be elected and running all of govt. so such corruption won't happen or will be quickly corrected. THAT IS TRULY the fault of the american people.
As for the govt school indoctrinated into "collectivist" mental disorder, that everything "capitalist" is evil ...corruption is where you find it. You find it where people are too lazy and/or fearful to root it out. You will find Collectivist govts to be severely corrupt. To assume anything that isn't capitalism isn't corrupt is absurdly ignorant.
It is sad that the corruption took place. It would take place yet again if another equivalent sum of money were spent because the people who choose the people to run such things are corrupt.
It seems there always were and always will be the corrupt and greedy. The problem is US. We allow it. We enable it by doing nothing.
I want to watch this documentary soo bad. Does anyone know a site where I can watch it?
video provider has blocked it for my region (u.s.a) - Thanks
i would like EVERYBODY to notice the rating for this film is 9.11!coincidence!?!?!?!?
Absolutely ;)
Civil war-
Your also ignoring the many benefits of the French Revolution ( ever heard of the Napoleonic code?).
The French Revolution, huh? Not the American? You prefer Madam Guillotine followed by wars of continental imperialism? Not a war against slavery and untold wealth? Choose carefully.
Slavery wasn't abolished in the US until the civil. Seriously....
After reading the comments, I won't even watch this. Just another chapter in "War is a Racket" A book BTW by Marine Gen. Smedley Butler. (Two cong. med of honor) He knew before WWI that western bankers/industrialists were corrupt and the US military was their Mafia but with submarines and aircraft carriers. Next question.
This is why Cheney and other companies like Blackwater wanted into Iraq!!! Typical pillaging of other countries that has been going on since we became a nation. All in the name of 'Freedom' and 'Democracy'.
the Americans completely gutted Iraq
and ran off with the money
Iraqis were robbed
Bush, Cheney, Bremer & Co are thieving war criminals who belong in jail. or executed by firing squad, even better.
The goal was never to spread democracy or help Iraq. The goal was to "divide and conquer." Steal the land and the oil. That was always the goal. Saddam Hussein was just the excuse to do it...
This is foreign invasion, even from the "greatest" nation in the word and his pet located on an island near Europe: loot and corruption !
When I watched this documentary I'd remembered about the famous Bechtel highway from Romania, a big scam and now they try to loot our natural gas and poison our land and water sending Chevron whit their so called " safe" shale gas extraction technology and our gold from Rosia Montana ( Gabriel Resources).
We love democracy and liberty but not when is brought by drones or UAV-s.
(Good to remember
Sadam Hussain)
Unfortunately the American
and their tail British were given a very special responsibility by the United
Nations under the US pressure, others country in Security Council sit and watch
as s*upid as i*iot. It was given trusteeship of more than 120 billion dollars
that belonged to the people of Iraq. Over the years of occupation, it spent
almost all of it. Yet, no one can account for where it all went. Literally billions
of dollars have gone missing. The result when you put money in hand of such country
US and UK is the catastrophic results what emerges is a disturbing tale of
corruption and fraud.
There was no
oversight of projects. "As trustees, we did a very poor job," admits
Frank Willis, a senior member of the US Provisional Authority (UPA). "We
should have spent the money on the Iraqi people, rather than putting it in the
pockets of foreign business." According to the United States' own figures,
Iraq's essential services are worse than before the war, (Good to remember
Sadam Hussain) with the country producing less electricity, oil or clean
water, or social services and health and education, transportation and on top
of that security and justice which have been missing since the US – UK occupation
of Iraq.
(Good to remember
Sadam Hussain)
Unfortunately the American
and their tail British were given a very special responsibility by the United
Nations under the US pressure, others country in Security Council sit and watch
as s*upid as i*iot. It was given trusteeship of more than 120 billion dollars
that belonged to the people of Iraq. Over the years of occupation, it spent
almost all of it. Yet, no one can account for where it all went. Literally billions
of dollars have gone missing. The result when you put money in hand of such country
US and UK is the catastrophic results what emerges is a disturbing tale of
corruption and fraud.
There was no
oversight of projects. "As trustees, we did a very poor job," admits
Frank Willis, a senior member of the US Provisional Authority (UPA). "We
should have spent the money on the Iraqi people, rather than putting it in the
pockets of foreign business." According to the United States' own figures,
Iraq's essential services are worse than before the war, (Good to remember
Sadam Hussain) with the country producing less electricity, oil or clean
water, or social services and health and education, transportation and on top
of that security and justice which have been missing since the US – UK occupation
of Iraq.
I'am so discussed when I' see the true face of Evil,all those a--holes who profited out of the Iraq crisis they should not call themselves Human Beings,nothing changed and we can see how Imperialism work
this is another type of genocide taking the peoples money and now they pay the high prize for the American and British thief's and let the people of Iraq to live on empty promises ,similar to the Nazis who robbed the whole Europe
It's not missing the Americans and British take them
When the US soldiers raided his house and wrecked it, beat up his relatives, wrecked his car and took him to jail for the night in a case of supposed mistaken identity I would bet that it was a warning by the US government not to investigate them or say anything bad about them in the press.
My country has been corrupted. Never should a president like Bush be put into the white house EVER again. He was a puppet. Most presidents succumb to some BS put forward by their advisors early in their presidency, and it blows up in their face. Kennedy had the bay of pigs for instance. Clinton had some issues. Not every president is like Reagan, and FDR, who walked into their offices and from the first day ruled each and every day with an iron fist for the betterment of the American people. It's an issue my generation is hell bound to fix. If we do not fix it, our nation will falter within the next 20 years. The US Military as a whole does not represent the average citizen. The average us soldier is the soldier out in the field giving candy to kids. That's not what we focus on, nor is it what the Iraqi children will remember about this war, they will remember their doors kicked in, parents killed, siblings killed. I think on some level Obama wanted to do the right thing, and actually spend the money to fix Iraq. We did bomb it after all, it's only fair that we fix it. However, the same party that started the war wouldn't let Obama go in debt for basic things for america here at home, never mind more money for Iraq. I would have taken a dollar a week tax hike to fix Iraq. That would be a couple hundred million dollars a week right there, that Americans probably would have given to help the suffering. Our voices are drowned out. I was 17 years old when Bush started the talk of Iraq. Immediately I wondered "why are we invading Iraq, what have they done do us". I thought the thought many educated Americans at the time thought, We know North Korea has Nuclear weapons, we know Iran is making Nuclear weapons, and we THINK Iraq might be making nuclear weapons.... So we are invading Iraq then eh? What's wrong with this picture. I will admit I did think that maybe Iraq did have WMD's, because Hussein was so adamant in convincing the world he did. He was feigning to keep Iran from attacking, and he thought was bluffing. It was said best in this video, we screwed up, and there's no going back. I am ashamed we have left these people in this situation.
A really simplistic look at the overall issue.
Let me ask you a question:
How well would something be built if there was a high risk of attack, intimidation, kidnapping ect? We all know people seen working for the "government" in Iraq, be it building schools or military bases, were targets....do you think that made it easier to find qualified work?
Of course not, no one in their right mind would.
So...you get poor quality work, because the skilled workers are not going to risk their life to help occupiers build stuff.
Oh and im sure round the clock security for the rebuilding, as well as lost goods via roadside bombs ect....certainly raised the cost.
So yeah...its super easy to say "they had X amount of money and look what we got" and then say they stole the money..
But you have to be pretty damn blind to not know the major challenges those who chose to rebuild faced. You think anything built in a warzone, faced with the stigma of helping occupiers, which had real ramifications in Iraq, would have been cheap and high quality?
Don't get me wrong we shouldn't have been there, but you've got to be stoned to think it was as simple as "coalition stole"
The problems with docs like this are simple. Once you view the situation with the harshly critical eye that it was never about improving Iraqi lives, individual 'experts' and 'projects' become obvious and utterly irrelevant.
The rest of the world opted to stay out of that mess because they saw beyond the obvious short term profit-taking.
I live in Canada and deal with Americans all the time through my business. Individually, they are some of the most community-minded and generous people I've ever met.
Collectively however, it's a different story and I think that has more to do with the fact, in the US (and in my own beloved homeland of late) the voices of the electorate have been drowned out by those in a position to manipulate the electoral process.
The US (and Canada) rank among the LEAST 'free' nations on the planet.
It's extremely important that foreign viewers of this NOT paint 'Americans' in a bad light, rather that individuals like the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Bush cabal be sanctioned for their behaviour (which will never happen).
Please keep in mind while watching this doc that it does NOT represent rank-and-file citizens who have essentially been excluded from the democratic process.
Just yesterday in my own beloved-but-disappearing Canada, our pretend leader suspended the duly elected democratic process for the third time since 2006 in order to avoid being called to account his own incompetence, and looting of the resources belonging to the people of what was once a great nation, proud and free.
Corrupt world, firstly their earn a profit by selling weapons which you use to kill each other and destroy your own infrastructure, then their came in with their companies to take more money through rebuilding.
When we as Americans realize who the real devils are, that this country and it's so called founding fathers (Matthew 23:9) made their pact with satan. Then will the fulfilling of the scriptures be complete.
Bringing to mind the story of KING DAVID, when YHWH THE GREAT! or GOD as the ignorant know him as only, sent the prophet Nathan to DAVID. For he had with violence taken away a humble man's wife and afterwards had the man killed.
Nathan told the KING, the story of how there was a man with plenty that took away from another what little he had. DAVID, as an evangelical patriot would do today in self righteous indignation, said where is this wicked man. I'll punish him severely.
And Nathan GOD's prophet delivering the message of the JUST GOD said, "THOU ART THE MAN"!
2nd Samuel 11th & 12th chapters
AND KING CHRIST WILL AS HIS FATHER THE GREAT GOD has said and is saying to AMERICA. "THOU ART THE NATION"!
i just have one word for everyone that posted "OCCUPY"