US accountability

Everybody remembers the fuss by the US of the so-called UN Oil-for-food scandal. More than 35 million dollars were spent to discover that one Russian guy had been providing info to potential contractors and that a high level UN official might not have justified well enough 150,000 $ (yes 35 million to discover a possible fraud of 150,000 !) he had declared as income. Ah those incompetent and corrupt UN staff....

A couple of years ago, a GAO report stated that they could not find how 8.8 million $ had been spent by the US transitional government. Interestignly enough there was much less talk about such a report than about the alleged oil for food scandal.

And now, the Pentagon's Internal Accounting Office reveals that at least 15 billion dollars are not accounted for: about 10 years of UN budget....those wasteful bureaucrats. ( see Mary Ugone's report dated 22 May 2008 before the Committee on Oversight and Government reform of the House)

Incompetence ? everybody thought that only UN staff were incompetent. Corruption ? come on, the UN is corrupt. Waste ? waste is giving money to the UN instead of churches spreading the Godspell.

Come on, there is something wrong somewhere : the honest, efficient, trustworthy Americans wasting taxpayers money ? Republicans betraying US taxpayers ? money meant to win the war and bring civilization to tye Middle East lost between corrupt US contractors and corrupy allies.

Will ever someone pay for it ?