Now We Know Why Iraqification is Going So Poorly

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US-Iraqi contract 'in disarray'

A $1.2bn (?590m) contract for training Iraqi police was so badly managed that auditors do not know how the money was spent, the US state department says.


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The programme was run by a private US company, DynCorp. It insists there has been no intentional fraud.

Auditors have stopped trying to audit the programme because all the documents are in disarray and the government is trying to retrieve some of the money.

Training Iraqis to take over security is a key part of US strategy.

Correspondents say this case is the latest to highlight problems linked to private companies being awarded lucrative government contracts in Iraq.

Olympic pool and VIP trailers

The US government audit, due to be released in Washington, says the state department cannot say "specifically what it received" for most of the money paid to DynCorp, the largest single contractor to the department.

DynCorp had won a contract to provide housing, food, weapons and specialist training for Iraq's police force in February 2004.

But some of its spending included the acquisition of a $1.8m X-ray scanner that was never used, and the $4m purchase of 20 VIP trailers and an Olympic-size swimming pool with money intended to fund an Iraqi police compound.

Stuart Bowen Jr, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), blamed the problems on long-standing contract administration problems within the state department office that awarded the contract.

He said "lack of controls" and "serious contract management issues" within the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) made it "vulnerable to waste and fraud".

Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said it could take the state department up to five years to review invoices and demand repayment from DynCorp for unjustified expenses.

"This scenario is far too frequent across the federal government," he said.

DynCorp had been asked to improve its management of government-owned equipment in Iraq twice before.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/7057629.stm

Published: 2007/10/23 10:40:02 GMT

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[Mr_Perceptive]

I was there recently. The major issue is training the police forces. And the major stumbling block. They are so damn incompetent it makes you sick. Plus, the police forces have been infiltrated by every faction and plain cut throat band in the region. They are  basically not worth shit. For example, only two out of fifty recruits could do two, yes two, pushups. And their hand to hand combat skills were less than my wife's. And their knowledge of proper police procedures was downright fu877king pitiful.

Until this conversion happens (in my opinion, never, I am increasingly afraid), the Iraqi "issue" will not be successfully resolved.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Until this conversion happens (in my opinion, never, I am increasingly afraid), the Iraqi "issue" will not be successfully resolved.

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You are right, without police the only hope is martial law. Armies cannot run countries worth a crap. Not rightwing armies, not leftwing armies, not even middlewing armies if there is such a thing.

Juniorbush has made such a big mess that it cannot be cleaned up. Think blueberry vomit and catsh*t on a prom dress.

It's like trying to fix up a figure-8 track, Junkyard Derby car to run in Indy or even NASCAR.

The only solution is to get the Hell out. The sooner the better, because the longer we stay, the more US troops will die and the more it will cost.

[Lanya]

I'm sure glad that billion dollar contract is just in "disarray" and wasn't wasted on "welfare queens," especially ones named LaKeesha.  Cause that's probably one that would be ALL up in your face.   Much better to let that nice DynCorp waste the money.

[BT]

According to one of the other threads LaKeesha is too stupid to pull it off.