Who’s funding terrorism?
I am.
And so are you, if you’re a U.S. taxpayer.
That’s because an estimated $8.8 billion — that’s “billion” with a “b” — in U.S. dollars went missing in Iraq in just 2003 and 2004. And much of it went to militia groups with links to terrorism. If you can stomach learning more, read this article in the March issue Portfolio.
By the way, no one in our government can reasonably say they didn’t know. Because, as the article makes clear, senior administration officials — plus Congress — have been told plenty of times, including once in direct testimony by Judge Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, who was appointed by Iraq’s Commission on Public Integrity to root out malfeasance, at least until he found that most of it came too close to the Maliki government (our “allies”). Now both the Iraq government and our own has backed away from him, and the judge is living on handouts in Virginia with our State Department saying he’s a liar.
Maybe. But I prefer to judge people by their actions. I don’t know that Judge Radhi has ever lied to me. Can’t say the same for the White House.