NBC: Colonel arrested for conspiracy in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10285693/

A reserve lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army has been arrested on conspiracy charges in a bribery and bid-rigging case in Iraq, NBC News learned Thursday. Two others have been charged in the case but were not arrested.

Lt. Col. Michael Brian Wheeler is charged with stealing funds, helping rig contracts and illegally buying weapons while working for the now-dissolved Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S.-led agency that ran Iraq for more than a year after the 2003 invasion.

Wheeler was arrested Wednesday in Wisconsin, NBC News reported, for apparently aiding a U.S. businessman who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to U.S. occupation authorities in Iraq to get reconstruction contracts worth more than $13 million.

[newscott]

1. This generation's Ollie North?

[hwmnbn]

2. If the chimp had his way.......

I bet he gets promoted to full bird colonel, and then awarded a couple of medals before running for congress as a repug. He has all the credentials and pedigree of a sleazy, lying bastard.

The GOP would welcome him with open arms and wallets.

[Sydnie]

3. Perhaps he can share a cell with Dukie the pukie and they can

compare what they got with their spoils then lost! :rofl:

[afdip]

4. he's just following the lead of the busheviks . . .

[texpatriot2004]

5. Pathetic nm

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Corruption?

What corruption? :shrug:

[bluedawg12]

7. These are the most corrupt times I have ever seen all this money

floating around with the fat cat repugs and the chimper draining our coffers like a ho' on crack is bound to breed corruption.

I hope someone is keepng a list.

Abram-jerk-off
DeLouse

who else?