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Ex-State officials allege corruption in Iraq

usatoday.com — Real shocker: the now-defunct Office of Accountability and Transparency was... an illusion?

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AlwaysAwake, on 05/14/2008, -3/+21Duh................
agisten, on 05/14/2008, -3/+19I'm really shocked !!!!
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- noupsell, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9Corruption... Iraq... I know it's a hard to believe... a playground where there is no apparent accountability
- pintomp3, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5i'm shocked and awed.
  - CryRightardCry, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2I'm shocked and odd.
duggtodeath, on 05/14/2008, -2/+18This just in, scientists predict sun will rise tomorrow, day after.
- Hangly, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6We only have two more days to live??
moolaismyfriend, on 05/14/2008, -10/+14This administration, and the GOP lead Congress from 2002 to 2006 completly mis managed every single issue in Iraq.

if we competent leaders who were not blinded by tunnel vision and Neo Con closed minded ideology, we may actually have a thriving democracy in Iraq.

Instead we have a cesspool that has sucked over 24,000$ for every family in America.

Thank you George Bush and all the right wing neo con Republicans that voted you in office for ***** everything up and telling us rational people that we were anti-American scum for offering a different approach.

I will never respect anyone who voted for Bush in 2004. Ever. You have cost me more money than any tax increase a Democrat has passed!
- Brownds, on 05/14/2008, -7/+10And what have the Democrats done since they took congress 2006? Not a damn thing they promised. Between them and Bush our economy is in shambles. Right now their approval rating is at 20% and Bush's is 28%. Well maybe both parties need to be purged but a lot of sheeple can't seem to understand that and keep voting for the same ass hats.
  - moolaismyfriend, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9I am pissed about the fact that I donated money, phone banked, and volunteered my time to several candidates in the 2006 election, and now that they are in office they have done nothing that they ran on.
    
    I was duped into thinking that as long as we could get the democrats into both houses that we could turn this train wreck around. Wow was I proven to be the fool. As a result i refuse to give anymore money to any Democrats until they stand by the campaign promises they made in 2006.
    
    especially people like Senator Jim Webb.
    
    Nancy Pelosi has also sold out the Democratic party. I'm still proud of donating and helping Jon tester win the Senate in Montana. he has done a great job, helping retsore Stafford loans and Pell grants to those that need them. Otherwise the democrats got to get their ***** together.
    - Brownds, on 05/14/2008, -2/+3Agreed. I stopped being active in 2004 since I figured our government is ran by people so corrupt it sickens me. I hope America wakes up soon. I hope Obama has the balls to back up what he says. Well at least the baby boomers are getting close to being put to pasture. We need a generational change in the capitol.
  - Terr01, on 05/14/2008, -1/+8I cannot blame the Democrats for failing while trying to act, given that GOP filibustering is many times more common than when they were threatening the "nuclear option" against Democrats.
    
    Conversely, I can and do blame Democrats for acting when they could succeed by doing nothing (where 60 votes are not needed in the Senate), as with aspects of Iraq war funding.
  - madfrogurt, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2Wafer thin margins of control don't transfer well into passing laws or overriding vetoes. Don't you think the Republicans were trying to make the Dems look bad by blocking any possible progress?
  - CryRightardCry, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2It's funny that you blame the dems for not doing enough to fix the damage caused by the GOP.
    WHy not blame the GOP for the damage they did?
- jer2eydevil88, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3@moolaismyfriend
  Were you drunk when you wrote that? There are entire words just missing making your sentence structure rather incomplete...
  - Brownds, on 05/14/2008, -2/+1Try to be constructive instead of being a micromanaging Nazi. If you get the point respond to the topic or move on.
- pitlord, on 05/14/2008, -5/+3But wait, this happened in 2007 AFTER the Dems took over. So, what is your excuse now?
  >.>
  - CryRightardCry, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2That's funny that you pretend that having a slim majority means they are in total control.
    Do you have the honesty to admit that the funding for the Iraq Occupation is controlled by GOP Bush appointees?
    Do you have the honesty to admit the way the money is handled is done in secret?
    Do you have the honesty to admit that no bookkeeping has been followed to by the Bush appointed people in charge?
    YOu rightards have zero integrity.
    And now you have become even more pathetic as you try to rewrite history and pretend you didn't cheerlead failure, that somehow it's the DEMS fault for not doing enough to STOP the GOP.
    You know, the GOP, the party you shill for?
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 05/14/2008, -2/+3Dollar sign on the left, percentage sign on the right.
  
  You have cost me more money than any tax increase a Democrat has passed!
  yeah, go read about Roosevelt and Johnson, then try to make this statement with a straight face.
- chicofaraby, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4"if we competent leaders who were not blinded by tunnel vision and Neo Con closed minded ideology, we may actually have a thriving democracy in Iraq."
  
  How about if we stop telling other nations how to govern themselves? The USA has no right to be in Iraq at all.
xerodustrial, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9Surprise.
Todash19, on 05/14/2008, -1/+9Gasp!
Bagos1, on 05/14/2008, -0/+9Well....we are all certainly non-plussed by the news....I mean really, Bremmer losses 9 billion dollars in cash and nobody in the Justice Department seems to think that's a problem? That's just plain old corruption at the highest levels.
Drogoganor, on 05/14/2008, -5/+9Government Corruption = Communism
- evil-doer, on 05/14/2008, -1/+10uh,wha? i dont see the connection? sure a communist goverment can be corrupt, but so can any form of government.
  your statement makes no sense?
  - Drogoganor, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3It was a glib statement, but the idea is that governments that are too close to big corps end up supporting those corps and subsidizing their failures. Government protection from the free market, basically. Smacks of protectionism.
- pintomp3, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6in concert with corporations = corporatism. btw, iraq is as free a market as you can get.
- Barackalypse, on 05/14/2008, -2/+2Government=Corruption
  Stated mathematically: As the limit of the size of government approaches zero the size of the corruption also approaches zero.
  - chicofaraby, on 05/14/2008, -1/+2*****. Government isn't bad. Bad government is bad.
zymosis, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11Office of Accountability - I lol'd at that alone.
- synaesthesia, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4No *****...United States government, Iraq and Accountability are three words that should never be in the same sentence. Iraq is the single greatest strategic blunder and diplomatic/military disaster of a generation and nobody will be held accountable. Sure, a few big-wigs may be pressured to resign (into equally cushy retirements) but none of those responsible for this war and all of the subsequent deaths (Rumsfeld, Tenet, Bush, the various Pentagon/DoD/White House officials) will ever have to face any type of real punishment for what they've done. Piss off with 'Accountability".
Hangly, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4THATS NOT POSSIBLE
Chaotyk, on 05/14/2008, -2/+6In other news, Digg Users allege "no sh** Sherlock".
helliottlaw, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7Next up: ex-forest rangers allege bear ***** in woods
wooFmeoWoinK, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4REPORT THOUGHTCRIME.
bobbknight, on 05/14/2008, -5/+1Ummm so we have Department of State Democrats whining to Senate Democrats that things were not done the way that they wanted them done.

Boo Hoo
pitlord, on 05/14/2008, -3/+3According to the article. Bush disbanded this guy's anti corruption office and appointed a NEW guy to work against corruption as soon as he realized that THIS guy wasn't able to get the job done.
>.>
Isn't that what a good leader is supposed to do?
- chicofaraby, on 05/14/2008, -1/+4Depends. Was the new appointee another horse judge?
spyd3rweb, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6Just in Iraq? Thats it, no where else?
- WTFppl, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Iraqi government officials could not be reached for comment.
hovester, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1Hey, tell me something I don't know already!
Carl306, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2For some reason I'm not surprised.
redxninja, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I can't believe it is not butter.
Sverre, on 05/14/2008, -1/+160 minutes recently had a story on this. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTr336q6Q-M.
dlindberg, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1no *****
HubbertWins, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Our entire government is bought and paid for and people are worried about corruption in Iraq?
Barackalypse, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1There's corruption at home too, I'd expect there to be even more halfway across the world. Here's a thought, the less money and power the government has, the less corruption there can be. The fact is the government is so big and spends so much money without much oversight that it is too tempting to try for a piece of it.
laserblazer, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1They're like the Galactic Empire without the slick duds.
dyana1, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1shocked
louiebaur, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1No way
aerwin, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1No-brainer.
lhbaker, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
Gwennyk, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0Wow, telling us stuff we already know...well it's better than the lies I suppose.
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