U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself

[BrewCityBuck]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/world/mi...agewanted=print<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 ? The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report has concluded.The report, obtained by The New York Times, estimates that groups responsible for many insurgent and terrorist attacks are raising $70 million to $200 million a year from illegal activities. It says $25 million to $100 million of that comes from oil smuggling and other criminal activity involving the state-owned oil industry, aided by ?corrupt and complicit? Iraqi officials.</div> 1. Thousands of willing participants 2. Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund it = Could go on forever and we cannot stop it :no1:

 

[ReppinTheD]

Not like it needs to be said, but this war is a lost cause. And this isn't any new news either, they're financed up the ass.

 

[redneck]

The US needs to cut the funding to this stuff yesterday. if the funding is cut, than the US stands a better chance at stopping the insurgency.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (redneck @ Nov 26 2006, 09:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The US needs to cut the funding to this stuff yesterday. if the funding is cut, than the US stands a better chance at stopping the insurgency.</div> It's nearly impossible because most of it is happening overseas and cannot be controlled.

 

[Michael Bryant]

The US can stop them, we have the ability. I mean come on! Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous that the most powerful military force in the world is having trouble with a bunch of crazy dumbfucks who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with their guns?Let's do what Nixon did in Vietnam with his air campaigns, which is send in a constant stream of B-52's to drop an unending supply of Nepalm on those pricks. Then we'll see who has the upper hand.