As Tony Blair is reported in The Independent today as saying that faced with the same circumstances he would do it all again - that is, invadind Iraq - and US allegedly with Iraqi forces are pounding north of Baghdad [God only knows with what casualties and physical damage] this bleak assessment by Paul Reynolds, BBC World Correspondent, of what is Iraq today, 3 years after the invasion, makes for sobering and melancholy reading.
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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