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Iraq: Paying for non-existent WMD's

The US accused Iraq of having WMD's. A chorus of people [well a small one anyway] like Tony Blair and John Howard joined in the refrain. Oops ........they were wrong! And they knew that all along! So, while a charade was being played out searching for those non-existent WMD's a huge cost in manpower and the like was being incurred.

So, who pays for all this nonsense? Yes sir, the poor ole Iraqis - to the tune of US$10 billion per annum. They have been repaying the money to the USA, as Press Esc reports:

"Iraq has been forced to pay US$10 billion a year to the US-led team searching for weapon's of mass destruction, even after it emerged that such stockpiles did not exist, a US Congressional report has found.

The Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security report by the Congressional Report Service notes that The formal US-led WMD search ended December 2004 but the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) is still formally active.

A draft resolution was only circulated this month to end UNMOVIC's work, which costs US $10 billion per year drawn from Iraqi revenues."

Astounding!

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