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Posted on Aug 03 2011
With due respect to Franklin Keiper, I don’t watch Fox News channel. When all U.S colleges and universities were polled last year, Fox News was perceived to be the most dishonest of all.
A Congressional Budget Office report released this month showed that U.S. agencies spent a total of $85 billion on contractors of all types in Iraq from 2003 through 2007—about 20 percent of all U.S. spending for operations in the country during that period. That’s an unacceptable lack of clarity, says Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who chairs the House subcommittee that controls defense spending. Precise data on the extent of U.S. spending on mercenary services is nearly impossible to obtain—by both journalists and elected officials—but some in Congress estimate that up to 40 cents of every tax dollar spent on the war goes to corporate war contractors. How much money is being spent just on mercenaries remains largely classified. Congressional sources estimate the United States has spent at least $6 billion in Iraq (http://www.newscorp.com).
Mr. Keiper, Americans will never know how much money was spent in Iraq because the Republicans’ excuse was that the defense spending data was destroyed when one of the hijacked planes hit the Pentagon. That is not a good excuse for Americans but I have no reason to believe your own statistic because it’s out of whack, fuzzy math if you get your facts from Fox News. I do watch the Washington Journal news, better known as C-SPAN, because they’re very down-to-earth and more civil newsmakers. At the same time I prefer to do my own research and be informed and up to date daily.
[B]Jack O. Romolor[/B] [I]Portland, OR[/I]
