Understatement of the Day
Kirk sent me an article:
Audit finds lax oversight in contractor payments
An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was spent.
Of the money paid during a five-year period — from 2001 through 2006 — $7.8 billion in payments skirted billing rules with some violations egregious enough to invite potential fraud, warned the Defense Department's inspector general.
The findings provided fresh fodder for anti-war Democrats, who say the Bush administration has turned a blind eye to the problem of corruption and fraud by relying too heavily on contractors to manage the war.
Kirk: I disagree with the third paragraph. The administration didn't turn a blind eye, they actively encouraged and fired whistleblowers.
I'm assuming that Kirk meant that the administration actively encouraged the lax oversight and got rid of people pointing out the obvious sacking of the U.S. Treasury.
True enough for me to post that alone, but Kirk probably realizes, himself, that it's all going according to plan.
The class war is over, the rich won, and they will continue their own plan for income and wealth redistribution on their own terms and for their own benefit.

Comments
Thank god we have the foxes guarding the hen house.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 23, 2008 08:19 PM