Evidence of Fraud Found by Iraq Audit - Los Angeles Times

Is anyone surprised by this?

It isn't a very far jump from "legal" war profiteering, to out-right theft, now is it?

Evidence of Fraud Found by Iraq Audit - Los Angeles Times:

"WASHINGTON: An American initiative to use private security companies to protect Iraq's oil and power infrastructure collapsed amid reports of possible fraud, missing weapons and destroyed documents, according to a federal audit released Saturday.

Under a program named Task Force Shield, the U.S. paid two security firms $147 million to train and equip tens of thousands of Iraqis to safeguard oil pipelines and transmission towers, the audit found."