Floor Statement on Iraq War Contracting
by Rep. Cynthia McKinney (GA)
June 15, 2006

Madame Speaker, This Administration speaks of patriotism, yet cuts health care for wounded soldiers, now numbering over 18,000.  It wraps itself in the flag, the same flag draping the coffins of our dead, numbering over two and a half thousand as of today.  Yet now there are revelations of $12 BILLION missing from the Treasury, shipped to Iraq in $100 bills and distributed in ways we may never learn, bringing the total of unaccounted funds from the Iraq war chest to $21 BILLION.  Yet the Bush Administration has launched no investigation and has imposed no penalties on the corporations involved. 

The American People have been defrauded of our money, our morality, and the precious lives of our soldiers.