Pentagon Lost Money

Poem "American Pride" - President Obama Can Balance Budget and Cut Down Debts By Tracing 2.3 Trillion Missing Pentagon Fund Since September 10, 2001!
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[From the Author of “Poems by Kolki – Absolutely Humane” & “Real Path To 9 11”] On September 10, 2001, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted to declare war against Pentagon Bureaucracy, saying “Money wasted by military poses a serious threat. In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death. According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions”! (Rumsfeld on CBS, Aleen Sirgany)   President Obama Can Balance Budget and Cut Down Debts By Tracing 2.3 Trillion Missing Pentagon Fund$$ Since The Day Before 9/11/2001, As Well As Stopping Billions Spent Around The World Including In Bribing Israel, Egypt, Pakistan To Buy Loyalties Which Mainly Empowering The Swiss-British Brain Child Israel and The NATO Constitutional Monarchy, Depriving Americans From Many Basic Needs and Services! Fellow Americans Must Also Ask Themselves, “What Is This Debt? To Whom? And Why?” Kolki[Reference: CBS, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml]  Let us make 9/11 "Day of Consciousness"Diplomacy                                                                                War CrimesAmerican Pride(Dedicated to true American Dream of Democracy without Slavery and Hegemony, Deepak Sarkar, http://www.kolki.com/) [Fellow Americans must rise as The NATO /European Union’s Monarchist loyal politicians and media alliances systematically destroying the “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave” letting war criminals run the country from behind building the largest Prison Industry (2.5 million+), converting caring military to brutal killing machine, destroying true free market economy for feudal monopoly, promoting a culture of war and pornography, and demeaning The American Values of Open Justice and Equal Rights which eventually endangering basic human rights and democracy! Kolki]  LINK TO POEM: “American Pride” => http://www.kolki.com/poems/American-Pride.htm  $$ The War On Waste      By Aleen Sirgany  (CBS)  On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
"In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said.
Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."
More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.
"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.
"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.
He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.
"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."
The Pentagon's Inspector General "partially substantiated" several of Minnery's allegations but could not prove officials tried "to manipulate the financial statements."
Twenty years ago, Department of Defense Analyst Franklin C. Spinney made headlines exposing what he calls the "accounting games." He's still there, and although he does not speak for the Pentagon, he believes the problem has gotten worse.
"Those numbers are pie in the sky. The books are cooked routinely year after year," he said.
Another critic of Pentagon waste, Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, commanded the Navy's 2nd Fleet the first time Donald Rumsfeld served as Defense Secretary, in 1976.
In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers."[Reference: CBS, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml]  Now imagine, why New York Times would review Harry Potter before publishing yet leave this most important American issue unattended? And why, Washington Post which is too occupied with the Virtual Islamic Terrorists would be so reluctant to be at the top of such an hot media issue, harming the country most? Well, then you must also read: Why Main Stream Media Is Silent? Now close your eyes and try to marginalize why and how Flight 77 (Boeing 757) would be programmed to hit Pentagon’s newly refurbished Budget and Personnel Office precisely making a spectacular last moment 360 degree turn! 9/11 Truth Smoking Guns  
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