She'll fix that leaky
She'll fix that leaky Iraqi border right quick.
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And what exactly are British taxpayers getting for their money?
The Financial Times, March 4, 2005:
The U.S. paid Iraqi opposition leaders millions of dollars a year for intelligence on Saddam Hussein's regime that later proved flawed, according to official documents published by the British government.
A confidential paper drawn up by the Foreign Office in July last year, said the Iraqi National Congress [INC], led by Ahmad Chalabi, was "in receipt of approximately $4m per annum from the U.S. government."
The disclosure was made under new freedom of information laws.
An Australian Broadcast Corporation interview with Ahmad Chalabi, February 9, 2002:
[M]ost of the funding that the United States provided for the INC came after the Inspector General provided their report, by the when the Inspector General had come here, the United States had given us about 4 and a quarter million dollars. Since that time they've increased that by about 11 million dollars
Like they say, you can look it up.
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And speaking of the exchequer of the Sceptred Isle, here's a proposal to use public funds to help construct a Muslim Redoubt in an English town.