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A Few Things I've Stolen (3)$12 Billion worth of Iraqi oil |
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What we did with £12 billion worth of Iraqi oil revenues
The first thing we did after we invaded Iraq was to take control of their oil. Well obviously, I mean that was the whole point. I said we should just flat out take it, but Dick thought we oughta make some kind of token gesture like we was paying for it, so it wouldn’t look quite so bad an all. So what we did was we sent $12 billion dollars worth of hundred dollar bills in on few aeroplanes and washed our hands of the matter. Nobody’s quite sure where it went, but then who cares. Retired Admiral David Oliver who was financial adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremner put it best when he was questioned about it by the B.B.C World service. When asked what happened to $8.8 billion dollars of the money he replied:
"I have no idea. I can't tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn't - nor do I actually think it's important."
Q: "But the fact is billions of dollars have disappeared without trace."
Oliver: "Of their money. Billions of dollars of their money, yeah I understand. I'm saying what difference does it make?"
Nice one Ollie.
Other Things I Have Stolen.
The Presidency of the United States of America, TWICE.
$2,000,000,000,000 of United States taxpayer’s money.