How do you loose 8.7 BILLION dollars?

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Well our government has managed to do it. The Pentagon has lost 8.7 Billion (with a B) that as suppost to spend in Iraq. The report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction accused the Defense Department of lax oversight and weak controls, though not fraud. "The breakdown in controls left the funds vulnerable to inappropriate uses and undetected loss," the audit said. The Iraq government is threatening to take legal action against us for it. They never got the money which was suppost to be used to help rebuild the country. The money in question came from the Development Fund for Iraq, which was set up by the U.N. Security Council in 2003. The DFI includes revenues from Iraq's oil and gas exports, as well as frozen Iraqi assets and surplus funds from the defunct, Saddam Hussein-era U.N. oil-for-food program. Iraq had given the U.S. authorization to tap into the fund, which is held in New York, for humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, withdrawing that approval in December 2007. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq;_ylt=AosASBATFBwccaCdrcbGV4us0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM4ZDJiZmJhBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzI3L21sX2lyYXEEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwMzBHBvcwMxMQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYXVkaXR1c2Nhbm5v Well at least it was not tax payer money...but still our government LOST 8.7 Billion of Iraq's money...and they PROBLY will come after us for it. Which will cost us tax payers big time. So what should be done about this? How does this happen? Anyone else wondering how much money is "lost" within our government? You know Iraq can't be only ones they have "lost" things with....like tax payer money.