From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa
IraqrCOs reconstruction effort had a United Nations mandate, a special inspector general and international monitors overseeing its oil fund rCo
and it still lost track of $8.7 billion.
Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicol|is Maduro, his administration has already collected at least $500 million from oil sales, holding the money in a Qatari bank with the
White House giving the secretary of state sweeping discretion over how
itrCOs spent.
rCLThe basic question is rCo if the U.S. government is actually marketing
this oil, which it is rCo what is it going to do with the money?rCY
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/the-u-s-couldnt-track-billions-in-iraq-now-its-controlling-venezuelas-oil-cash-00739251
When we have a very crooked president like Trump, the Iraqi oil proceeds
are in danger, just like a fox in a hen house.
Also, the Venezuelan people should be very worried, they might see very
little of that oil money that could benefit them. Greedy vultures are
already circling in the sky ready to descend and pick them clean.
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