Rolling Stone has a long article on wasteful spending and outright thievery by civilian contractors in Iraq:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle I know it's not exactly news that people are swindling the government. It's the government's complicity in it as detailed in the article that's truly disgusting. There's also a story floating around that clergy are being trained to quell dissent in the case of martial law. This one sounds like some crazy left-wing conspiracy nut went off his meds, but it was reported on KLSA-TV in Louisiana, so it's not like it's just on some random blog out in the Internet wilderness: http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987 I dunno. It sounds crazy. But a plausible kind of crazy, which is maybe the craziest thing of all: The Administration has done enough shady shit to make this sort of thing sound like it might happen. Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
