Our Values
20 VIP trailers and an Olympic-size swimming pool? That’s just the sort of thing the Iraqi police training programme needs at the moment. And at the bargain price of only $4m? Money well spent, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Unfortunately, due to a slight hiccup in Dyncorp’s accounting practices, we’re unable to establish exactly what they did with the rest of their US government issued $1.2bn contract for training the Iraqi police. Perhaps they spent a few million dollars on such essential items as gold plated armoured Rolls Royces so that their trainers could get about the place efficiently. As I’m sure you’re aware, the efficiency of the private sector is a very important factor which allows them to deliver outstanding value for money .
If only they hadn’t been let down by their accountants, we’d be much better able to fully appreciate and applaud the innumerable ways in which they’ve selflessly used the money awarded to them to improve the lot of long suffering Iraqis.
We can speculate, however. Given what we know about Dyncorp’s involvement in other troubled areas of the world, it is certainly possible some of that money ultimately found its way into the hands of sex traffickers and pimps. This would, of course, provide a welcome injection of cash into the Iraqi economy. And they’ll have “Blackwater immunity” so they wouldn’t have to be bogged down in the red tape of the Iraqi legal system. Unfortunately, they may also have to pay some compensation to disloyal employees they’d been forced to fire for immorally complaining about the involvement of some of their staff in forced protsitution of under age girls. These desperate attention seekers are never going to be team players. Best pay them off and get rid of them so that the good work can continue unhindered.
All things considered, it’s no wonder that Iraqis are so very grateful for all that’s being done for them.