What good have the western/US contractors actually done in Iraq ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7057629.stm

Auditors have stopped trying to audit the programme because all the documents are in disarray and the government is trying to retrieve some of the money.

No doubt it would.

But some of its spending included the acquisition of a $1.8m X-ray scanner that was never used, and the $4m purchase of 20 VIP trailers and an Olympic-size swimming pool with money intended to fund an Iraqi police compound

good to know that US taxpayer's are funding such great projects... Surely the Iraqi Police need a swimming pool and VIP trailers..to entertain...their business guests..



Stuart Bowen Jr, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), blamed the problems on long-standing contract administration problems within the state department office that awarded the contract.

He said "lack of controls" and "serious contract management issues" within the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) made it "vulnerable to waste and fraud".

[QUOTE=Challenger78;1589913]What good have the western/US contractors actually done in Iraq ?
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I think the real question is: what good has the US done in Iraq? Not sure I can see anything positive there.

It was nice they killed Saddam and his sons - sure - but now? One could also make the argument that leaving would be even worse, I suppose.

What good have the western/US contractors actually done in Iraq ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7057629.stm....

Billions! How do you lose BILLIONS!! Maybe the gvmt should hire H&R Block to keep track of it.

It's despicable there is no pressure from the media about this. People on either side can agree this is an outrage.

Billions! How do you lose BILLIONS!! Maybe the gvmt should hire H&R Block to keep track of it.

LOL.

Look, i'm all for killing a dictator.. but not for the wrong reasons.. Kill the dictator then leave. However fix anything you broke on the way in.. But no, we are now going to have to leave Iraq as a devastated country, its history, inhabitants and lives all but forgotten.Except for those around the oil industry ..of course.

It's despicable there is no pressure from the media about this. People on either side can agree this is an outrage.

Yep. Either people don't know. Or people don't care. But they're getting ripped off either way.

They're keeping the printing presses hot so the dollar continues to plummet in value. We have to have a reason to swich over to the Amero dontcha know.

Its not only U.S contractors, there are numerous contractors in Iraq and many of them are British, some Australian all being paid nicely by the U.S government. I wonder who checks their books?

i know the whole thing is screwed up i mean there are litterally billions of dollars that no one has even the inkling of a clue on where it is billions and no one knows a thing about what happened to it just poof gone

What would we have done without the contractors? The US doesn't want to use their own troops because its an unpopular war and because it has over-stretched its own capabilities. Contractors like Blackwater have even offered to go into war zones like Sudan on behalf of the U.N

Maybe this is the way of the future. Maybe all U.S wars and its logistics will be contracted out to the private sector, this way no one will complain that their boys are coming home in body-bags since the deaths of contractors are not tallied in overall military deaths. This way they can say they are pulling out their troops like the British has done, yet the Brits have more contracting firms in Iraq than the U.S does. This way there is less transparency.

In some respects it may be a better solution. Contractors can afford to higher the best. As for the corruption the whole bloody war is tinged with corrupt fingers so I have a feeling that money would have 'disappeared' anyway.