[kearnyirish2]

Forty years after we were suckered by this in Vietnam, and nobody oversaw the program? What a hoax; then again, the whole Iraq war was.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Like New Orleans. I read they had 750 “ghost officers” on the payroll to benefit city officials.

[GladesGuru]

My tagline is rather accurately expressive on this issue.

;-)

[StormEye]

"An investigation into corruption in the Iraqi army has revealed that there were 50,000 false names on its payroll.

Known in the military as "ghost soldiers", they either did not exist or no longer reported for duty, however their salaries were still paid."

Yeah. And many Americans were killed and horribly maimed fighting for this corrupt and worthless people called Iraqis. (Otherwise known as Arabs.) What was it all for? What was gained or achieved for America? Why is it that the Iraqis put up a determined resistance to American forces but fold like a cheap suit to ISIS?

[PoloSec]

Most of those 50,000 are probably here in the U.S., illegaly of course, with their obama phone awaiting amnesty and free obamacare.

[bgill]

Who’da thunk!

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Sounds like Mayor Nagin in New Orleans with the fake cops on the payroll.

[Alberta's Child]

Color me skeptical on this one.

I suspect the money that was supposed to be paid to these 50,000 Iraqi troops (if they ever existed) was always intended to end up in the pockets of Iraqi tribal leaders and U.S. defense contractors anyway.

[terycarl]

did they register their addresses as anywhere in Illinois???

[PGalt]

Get OUR money CONgre$$.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Probably some sort of contamination with Petraeus’s scheme of buying off Sunni tribesmen in the west and north so they would resist the incipient AlQaeda in Iraq......