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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (241761)	9/14/2007 11:02:37 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

Most people accept the reality that democrats are the most corrupt group of people in modern history. That is a remarkable statement. I repeat what Kaplan said about Bush: what planet are you living on? You must live in a gated community somewhere, and only associate with people from the country club.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (241761)	9/14/2007 11:31:14 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

ROTFL re democrats most currupt people on earth Peter please document you fantacy about reality. that you could make such a silly statemnt is very very sad....and a tribute to your prejudice.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (241761)	9/14/2007 11:31:14 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

ROTFL re democrats most currupt people on earth Peter please document you fantasy about reality. that you could make such a silly statement is very very sad....and a tribute to your prejudice.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (241761)	9/14/2007 3:21:00 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

Billions over Baghdad By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money) Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currencymuch of it belonging to the Iraqi peoplewas shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed. Following a trail that leads from a safe in one of Saddam's palaces to a house near San Diego, to a P.O. box in the Bahamas, the authors discover just how little anyone cared about how the money was handled. Hidden in plain sight, 10 miles west of Manhattan, amid a suburban community of middle-class homes and small businesses, stands a fortress-like building shielded by big trees and lush plantings behind an iron fence. The steel-gray structure, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is all but invisible to the thousands of commuters who whiz by every day on Route 17. Even if they noticed it, they would scarcely guess that it is the largest repository of American currency in the world. On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, a tractor-trailer truck turned off Route 17 onto Orchard Street, stopped at a guard station for clearance, and then entered the eroc compound. What happened next would have been the stuff of routine procedures followed countless times. Inside an immense three-story cavern known as the currency vault, the truck's next cargo was made ready for shipment. With storage space to rival a Wal-Mart's, the currency vault can reportedly hold upwards of $60 billion in cash. Human beings don't perform many functions inside the vault, and few are allowed in; a robotic system, immune to human temptation, handles everything. On that Tuesday in June the machines were especially busy. Though accustomed to receiving and shipping large quantities of cash, the vault had never before processed a single order of this magnitude: $2.4 billion in $100 bills. vanityfair.com.