*Sigh*...considering all the ways in which the Bush administration has already proven itself corrupt and/or incompetent so far with regard to the War In Iraq, this latest tidbit hardly comes as a shocker.  Am I angry?  You bet.  Am I surprised?  By no means.  Let’s remember, after all, that this is the same administration which appointed Michael Brown to lead FEMA right here at home…a man without any previous experience in disaster relief, whose previous position (from which he had been fired) had involved show horses!  He was hired by a longtime friend within the Bush administration, one Joseph Allbaugh, who was at that time the director of FEMA and who had run Bush’s election campaign in 2000.  This is just more of the same…

Bush might be losing the shooting war but we must give him credit for beeing ahead in the battle of slogans.  It takes a lot of high-paid brainpower, and manpower, to come up with a new slogan every two weeks.

The whole thing just makes me so effing furious, I feel as if my head will explode.

Karen #45505, I remember as if it were yesterday, when I was in the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps during the Vietnam horror, talking over late night beers, after late night shifts, about how the dead were, often, the lucky ones.

At the time, we had no idea how right we were. The physical maiming is bad enough; the psychological scarring is atrocious and no one gets any medals for that, mostly just contempt for their humanity, which is why they were so scarred in the first place.

Bush, Cheney and the rest of the corporate officers of America, Inc., as it has been known for the past 6 years, should be tried for crimes against the Constitution, abuse of power, removed from office and, then, tried in the International Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Nothing less will do. Let us hope that our institutions will work, this time, and that this can all be done legally and with dignity, because justice is coming their way, one way or the other.

Indeed, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. For example, he didn’t mention that some of the US staff there spent most of their time thinking about how tax cuts are just what Iraq needs to get itself together.

One can easily assess the disastrous management of the war and reconstruction in Iraq by considering the Katrina disaster. Only the latter debacle happened in the US, where we could see it. Now imagine how Bush’s management skills translate to Iraq, half way around the world, and how much worse things must be there…I think you get the point.

Many people also have the mistaken belief that the US military runs the show over there in Iraq. Truth is, they don’t. If they did, things wouldn’t be so screwed up.

I seem to recall a Frontline episode on all this that came out a long time ago…you can probably find it online.

There’re a lot more untold scandals within the Whore House so just forget about what’s happening at the Green Zone.

We’re unable to clean up all infected stuffs when Bush, Cheney & Cos. are still there.

This makes me mad all over again!  3,000+ American soldiers dead, thousands maimed for life, 655,000+ Iraqis dead, and who knows how many of them have been maimed for life—and just so some already rich Americans can get richer!!!

We all need to be clear, it wasn’t just Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld who were responsible for this incredible pork-barrel feeding frenzy—a lot of people benefitted from the corruption and incompetence.  All the people who profited from this war must be held accountable!  All of them!  Not just the CEO and CFO of Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, Bechtel, etc., but all of them. 

Not one American company should have been given a money to “rebuild” Iraq—that money should have gone to the Iraqis.