First thought...

So you think that we are winning in Iraq and your tax dollars are hard at work? We may be fighting insurgents financed, in part, by US taxpayers. You are thinking, "How the f$#% can I, a RebulicanDemocraticNonvotingInvolvedRadicalDudeChick, be funding the people who are killing my countrymen in any way?"

Here's How It Works.

The US Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and other US entities pay for everything off base in CASH in Iraq. The banking system is pretty much still totalled and very corrupt. If, for example, you need to make a project happen in your sector, you submit a proposal and its eaisly approved by your commander because they have a monsterous budget for improvements in their battle space and are very encouraged to "make things happen". Lets say, for this example, you want to build a sewer system in a given area and a road to better the lives of its residents. We are usually fixing what Saddam didn't or we accidentally happened to obliterate during "Shock and Awe". These projects are not be being built by Brown and Root, et al. These are built by Iraqi contractors. Almost all off-base improvements that you, I, and our grandchildren's grandchildren are paying for are in cash to LOCAL IRAQI CONTRACTORS.

Now after your discussion with the contractor, he gives you a bid for 2 million dollars for these things to happen. You go up the chain of command, get it approved in a couple days, go to the "Green Zone" and pick up 2 million dollars and pay the contractor. He will have to sign for it but that is pretty much it.

Where the 2 million goes from there is anyone's guess. One must understand that the insurgents KNOW who is doing business with coalition forces. They watch our bases intently and have spies in and around ALL of them.

It is no great stretch to imagine the contractor approached by a man from Al Queda Iraq and paying him "insurance". Better yet the contractor may be just helping out his local insurgent cell because he just f@#$ing hates us being in his country. (CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE.)