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We are legal american are treated like immigrants, rats, and cattle in our own country.
http://castlecoalition.org/current_controversies/index.asp

become a member and pass this along, had to share this. To many people losing money to keep their homes. this should not be.

This article contradicts your Iraq Exit Strategy which advocates giving Iraq foreign aid. This article discusses waste and fraud.

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) publication, authored by L. Elaine Halchin, Analyst in American National Government Government and Finance Division discussed some of the problems with the foggy conception o fthe CPA.

"The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): Origin, Characteristics, and Institutional Authorities",
April 29, 2004 - http://www.shadow-media.org/blog/2005/08/are_the_kpmg_indictments_acts.html

sorry, i butchered th previous post somehow.

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) publication, authored by L. Elaine Halchin, Analyst in American National Government Government and Finance Division discussed some of the problems with the foggy conception o fthe CPA.

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"The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): Origin, Characteristics, and Institutional Authorities",
April 29, 2004 - http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar27-10.pdf
"It is unclear whether CPA is a federal agency. Competing, though not necessarily mutually exclusive, explanations for how it was established contribute to the uncertainty about its status. The lack of an authoritative and unambiguous statement about how this organization was established, by whom, and under what authority leaves open many questions, particularly in the areas of oversight and accountability. Some executive branch documents support the notion that it was created by the President, possibly as the result of a National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD). (This document, if it exists, has not been made available to the public.) The other possibility is that the authority was created by, or pursuant to, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 (2003)." - {page 2}

"Detailed information that explicitly and clearly identifies how the authority was established, and by whom, is not readily available. Instead, there are two alternative explanations for how it was established: one version suggests that the President established CPA; the other suggests that it was established pursuant to a United Nations (U.N.) Security Council resolution. While these possibilities are not mutually exclusive, the lack of a clear, authoritative, and unambiguous statement about how this organization was established and its status (that is, is it a federal agency or not) leaves open many questions, particularly regarding the area of oversight and accountability." - {page 7}

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Also, there were warnings in some of the foreign press.

A post on Shadowmedia.org's blog lists 18 articles published in the UK acountant trade pub, Accountancy Age, whuch described audit problems in the CPA:

http://www.shadow-media.org/blog/2005/08/are_the_kpmg_indictments_acts.html

When you have squabbles by different agencies, politicians and bureaucrats on how to approach reconstruction efforts, and I do not care if they are in Iraq, New Orleans or wherehaveyou, you are going to create problems and drive yourself further away from the goal of rebuilding.

The agencies, bureaucracies and others in the political realm are going to have to come together, put their differences aside and try to get the job done. It is hard work. It requiers a great deal of ego puncturing and humility. Nevertheless, by doing this, rewards can be reaped.

To GregD:

Actually the blog post doesn't contract the Iraq Exit Strategy. The exit strategy advocates giving foreign aid directly to the Iraqi government with safeguards in place. If the Iraqis waste the money then the aid gets cut off. This blog entry is a perfect example of why the Iraqis should be in charge of their own reconstruction. You should try actually reading the exit strategy GregD.

To Pat McGann:
It is a fact that much of the money has been distributed directly to the Iraqi people and the Iraqi government. As a matter of fact, "Shrink-wrapped stacks of $100 bills are stuffed in backpacks and thrown off the back of trucks tooling around the country. California Democratic Representative Henry Waxman found that $12 billion was dispatched in ``cashpaks'' from the Federal Reserve in a shipment weighing 363 tons." You can read more here.

As Libertarians, we believe that the problem isn't that the wrong people are in charge, but that government is doing things it has no business doing. Power and money corrupt. We have even seen it happen to our fellow libertarians (Doug Bandow, et. al.) There are no safeguards to stop that can be put in place to stop that -- that's why congress keeps building laws upon laws upon laws.