Par for the course
Well, if you can’t stop looting of museums and hospitals, plan ahead or have an exit strategy, I suppose it should come as no surprise to discover you have mislaid $9 billion within nine months:
According to a scathing report by the U.S. Inspector General, the U.S. occupation authority, known as the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and led in Iraq by L. Paul Bremer III, lost track of nearly $9 billion it transferred to Iraqi government ministries, between October 2003 and June 2004… ...The amount of ‘missing money’ represents around 4.5 per cent of the total cost of the Iraqi war effort to date; based on $200 billion. Back when $9 billion represented a lot of money, Bremer might have been held responsible for what could be described as criminal mismanagement of U.S. funds. As it happens, the Bush administration is likely to give Bremer a medal or put him in charge of Iran after they invade that country.