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"BAGHDAD - Iraq's top corruption fighter said Wednesday that $8 billion in government money was wasted or stolen over the past three years and claimed he was threatened with death after opening an investigation into scores of Oil Ministry employees."
bushies continue to give scum a bad name.
It's almost too perfect.
When Justice Department official William Moschella was asked why the Department had fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, he told Congress that “Iglesias had delegated to his first assistant the overall running of the office. And, quite frankly, U.S. attorneys are hired to run the office.” Internal documents from the time show officials planning to accuse Iglesias of being an "absentee landlord" to justify his firing.
Iglesias did, in fact, leave the office for 45 days each year. But that's because he's a a captain in the Navy Reserve -- something that was no secret to his superiors.
So now the Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Iglesias was wrongfully terminated due to his reserve duty, Newsweek reports. It is against the law for employers to discriminate against members of the U.S. military.
friend of mine just mentioned today that his cab driver in bermuda has built a $500,000 a year business shuttling corporate clients around the island. perhaps he should open a baghdad branch as fearless hacks charge upwards to $3500 for a seven mile jaunt to the airport. all that and more at
playboysteve clemons after dark.
i havent watched it but here is a lengthy alexander cockburn interview on book tv available for your online delectation.
“Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam.”
they link to greenwald so i dont have to. i cant imagine a worse president than rudy (other than the one we have). and despite the national polls which having him beating the three top dems head to head (but not state to state although that may be true as well), the rethugs are still pushing fred thompson hard in the media (or the media is pushing him hard on the wingnuts) which leads one to believe they dont really have much confidence in rudy long-term.
ge, we bring good things to light!
gag gulled
We are very close to the end:
The US embassy in Baghdad circulated a memo to all Americans working for the US government in the Green Zone. It ordered them to wear protective gear whenever they were outside in the Green Zone, including just moving from one building to another. Guerrillas have managed to lob a number of rockets into the area in recent days, and killed one US GI on Tuesday.What the fuck are they going to do? Move the green zone to Kurdistan? They cannot move it out of Baghdad (would be admitting defeat,) but they also cannot defend it (no way to clear a large enough security corridor around it to stop rockets because hundreds of thousands of people live in the immediate area.) So I guess they will just sit there until a rocket gets lucky and hits something important. Then we'll pull out like in Beirut after the Marine barracks bombings.
What other scenarios are there?
at the risk of contradicting my previous post, heres one for the cassandra squad.