Another Monday, another round of scandal. FAUX News literally has been complaining about the President's trip to France. They have seemingly forgotten the speeches in Cairo, Buchenwald, and Omaha Beach -- all done to help repair our image to the rest of the world. Instead, they are complaining about the President and the night he spent with his wife on the tax payer dollar. How DARE he spend American Money? How dare he vacation? The nerve!

Well, While they whine and complain, with poutrage and unrighteous indignation, the AP is reporting that major problems found in war spending since 2001. There are more than five contractors for every service member. How about that? No one ever bothered (until now) to take a look at these numbers.

We have blogged more than once about cost-plus contracts. We have blogged about shoddy workmanship by these these contractors. We have blogged about how deadly they can be. We have blogged about how badly they treat women. It appears that even to my skeptical, jaded, angry, liberal eyes--- we underestimated the amount of money that has been stolen - fleeced -- from the American Taxpayer.

9 billion is still missing from when Bremer was in charge of Iraq -- money that went missing within a week of him stepping down from his post in Iraq. No one ever found it. This report doesn't even seem to talk about that missing money. The money that this report mentions is not even part of our weekly *Ask A Vet* blog that our ever loyal TriSec writes. That is money that HAS been accounted for!

I am outraged. I want people to be held accountable. Too many people have died from Bush and Cheney's war of choice. Too many people have profited (and profiteered) from the blood of our soldiers and the Iraqi (and Afghan) people. These contractors have bankrupted America by stealing Trillions of Dollars. They have outsourced American jobs, and no one ever blinked an eye.

Perhaps if we had listened to people like Bunnatine Greenhouse, instead of ending the careers of people like her, this could have been avoided. Or perhaps this was the plan all along.

What I want now is for people to be held accountable.

Here is a little truth: while some will say this is now Obama's war, this one hangs on the heads of the Bush Administration. It is time to hold them accountable. Children are starving here at home, states are closing offices for lack of money -- our federal government is financially broke-- and no one ever bothered to look at the books to see why. It's convenient for some to act as tho this war began on January 20, 2009. It is convenient for those same people to act like this war was caused by Bill Clinton. These are the same people that are outraged over a night in Paris or a Broadway show. They are hypocrites.

I dare them to at least fake in TINY amount of outrage at this story.

Shameful, treasonous and deadly. And they had the nerve to call us unpatriotic.

:peace: and
Raine