Follow The Money

What about the money? There is the more than $9 billion that has gone missing without a trace in Iraq–as well as $12 billion in cash that the Pentagon flew into Iraq straight from Federal Reserve vaults via military transports, and for which there has been little or no accounting.
When word of the missing money first surfaced in 2004, Congress passed legislation creating an office of Special Inspector General. The new inspector general, an attorney named Stuart Bowen, came up with a report in early 2006 that sounded scathing enough. Bowen found cases of double billing by contractors, of payments for work that was never done, and other scandals. But he never came up with more than $1 billion or so worth of problems. Why?

Well he was not looking too hard. Why? Because he is Bushies Boy!
“When the Boston Globe, this past April, broke the story that President Bush has been quietly setting aside over 750 acts passed by Congress, claiming he has the authority as “unitary executive” and as commander in chief to ignore such laws”.
It turns out that one of the laws the president chose to ignore was the one establishing the special inspector general post for Iraq. What the president did was write a so-called “signing statement” on the side (unpublicized of course), saying that the new inspector general would have no authority to investigate any contracts or corruption issues involving the Pentagon.

Since most of the missing money has been going to the military in Iraq, that pretty much meant nothing of consequence would be discovered by the inspector general. Game. Set. Match!

You might think that the inspector general himself would have complained about such a restriction on his authority to do the job that Congress had intended, but Bush took care of that. In his role as Chief Executive, he appointed Bowen to the post, a man who has a long history of working as a loyal manservant to the president. Bowen was a deputy general counsel for Governor Bush (meaning he was an assistant to the ever solicitous solicitor Alberto Gonzales). He did yeoman service to Bush as a member of the term that handled the famous vote count atrocity in Florida in the November 2000 election, and then worked under Gonzales again in the White House during Bush’s first term, before returning briefly to private practice.
Bowen simply never mentioned to anyone that, courtesy of a secretive and unconstitutional order from the president, he was not doing the job that Congress had intended.
The deception was far-reaching. When Thomas Gimble, the acting inspector general of the Pentagon, was asked in 2005 during a congressional hearing by Christopher Shays (R-CT), chair of the House government reform subcommittee, why the Pentagon had no audit team in Iraq to look for fraud, Gimble facilely replied that such a team was “not needed” because Congress had set up the special inspector general unit to do that. He didn’t mention that the president had barred the special inspector general from investigating Pentagon scandals.
Remember that this administration has included a number of people who were linked to the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, when the creative-and criminal-idea was conceived of secretly selling Pentagon stocks of shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, and using the proceeds to secretly fund the U.S.-trained and organized Contra fighters who were fighting to topple the Sandinista government in Nicaragua (Congress had inconveniently banned any U.S. aid to the Contras).
It seems to me inconceivable that this corrupt and obsessively power-mad administration would have passed up an opportunity to get its hands on some of the easy money flowing into Iraq over the course of the last three years.{Source}

Once again, the fox is guarding the chicken house. What is this Administration using that $21 Billion for? What do they have to hide? Some of us are beginning to ask whether our tax dollar are being used to destroy Democracy and the Constitution here at home, instead of being used for the rebuilding of Iraq?
Those 750 signing statements which Mr. Bush has used to not only go around our laws and our Constitution, but the breaking of those laws and their Oaths of Office, have to be stopped. If not by this Congress, which is not going to happen, then we must put in a Congress and Senate which will hold Mr. Bush and his Cabal to answer for their crimes against the Constitution, the American people and their crimes against humanity with this war.

Investigations? We find out that they will not investigate the missing money in Iraq and just this week, we find out that this Cabal will not allow a Congressional investigation on the illegal wiretapping of American Citizens. Congress is worthless. Senate is worthless.
Are we worthless? Or are you going to write your Congressmen and Senators and demand that these signing statements be investigated? Demand that all the other crimes be investigated? That they do their duty to the Constitution and the American people! Are you going to do everything to get out the vote this November? Both in money, time, going door to door, writing letters to the editors. We must get back our Government.

Those Democrats who say they are not looking to the impeachment of this Cabal, are traitors to America, as much as Mr. Bush and his Cabal! That is their job, to keep a watch on the other branches of Government. To make them answer to them, and the American People!
If they don’t do their job, why should we pay them? Why should we keep them in their job?

You are either for us, (the American People) or you are with the enemy, (those who are destroying the Constitution, Democracy and America)!