Untold Scandals of the Green Zone
The Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells Jon Stewart that while many of Bush's Iraq blunders have been pored over extensively, the story of American corruption and incompetence in the Green Zone has been largely ignored -- from the 21-year-old former ice cream vendor who was sent to reform the Interior Ministry to the questioning of aspiring imperialists as to whether they had voted for Bush.The Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells Jon Stewart that while many of Bush’s Iraq blunders have been pored over extensively, the story of American corruption and incompetence in the Green Zone has been largely ignored — from the 21-year-old former ice cream vendor who was sent to reform the Interior Ministry to the questioning of aspiring imperialists as to whether they had voted for Bush.
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