$6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq
June 15th, 2011I don’t know how many times I’ve posted this one, but CNN has just aired a new piece about it, and, yep, the cash is still missing.
Maybe it went to the same place as the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001.
Via: CNN:
That money isn’t missing. Come on, aircraft full of money? It’s not like someone shoved a billion dollars in their pocket.
It’s hard to visualize that kind of money. I found this video a few days ago on YouTube to show you how much space $1 Trillion takes up. The video is really to show you how big the American debt really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFb6qe7Tmg
You can stop watching at about 0:55 for the 6.6 billion. Or to look at it a simpler way, look at the double stack of pallets at 0:38. That’s $100 million. 66 pallets, or as they illustrate it 33 stacks.
It’s extremely doubtful that they were just dropped on a loading dock with a note that said “Make sure you bring it inside in the morning”. Well, that in Arabic. Someone was guarding it. Someone escorted it. Whoever was responsible for it probably slept with it, an M-16 in his sleeping bag, and a dozen trusted people helping him guard it.
Nope, we know where it went. The folks who sent it over had it sent to places that it wouldn’t be traced to. Swiss bank accounts? Nope, they’re cooperating with the IRS now. There are plenty of havens around the world that won’t say a word about what was deposited nor who did it.
They’ll probably end up pinning it on some low ranking enlisted men and local insurgent.