Crikey, rightly, puts at least two journalists, Greg Sheridan [of The Australian] and Andrew Bolt [of the Herald-Sun] in their place as people who were back when the Iraq War got underway, and since then, so way off-the-mark in their analysis and commentary to make them laughable. In fact, why are they retained by the Murdoch press- and no less importantly, why does anyone read their scribbling let alone take it seriously?
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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