Auditing in Iraq Part Two: Enter the Professionals

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Thu, 08/05/2008 - 16:39  4864  1 comment

After the downfall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's occupying Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) had to win the peace. To do so, the US began spending vast sums of money with an almost tactical recklessness, quickly notching up billions of dollar of unaccounted expenditure, much of it belonging to the Iraqi people themselves (see Auditing in Iraq Part One). It was almost a year before a qualified accountant came anywhere near it.

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Follow the money...

John Savage | Fri, 09/05/2008 - 13:59 | Permalink

To start to uderstand the real reasons behind this illegal invasion and occupation of an oil rich country in which over 1.2 million innocent Iraqi citizens have been murdered by us - Britain and America - follow the money, leading to massively profiting corporations such as Blackwater and Haliburton, to name a couple.

The spoils of war, and here we are speaking of auditing it. One day, (perhaps) our senior politicians will stand trial for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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