As Pres. Bush hails the success of the referendum in Iraq and Iraq's movement toward democracy and the lessening of terror in the world - all very suspect and in respect of which the jury has to still be out - today comes news [as reported in Times on Line] that the judges to try Saddam Hussein have been secretly undergoing training in the UK. A number of countries have been involved including Australia. Why this has all been kept under wraps is a questionable matter. That aside, knowing that the judges have been "trained" should instil confidence in the trial process!!!!!
Only a gigantic bureaucracy could get away with spending of such dimensions - and the amazing waste involved in part of that ginormous spend. Think US Pentagon..... "From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represe...
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