Bunny Greenhouse was robbed

I was wondering how the Bush bloggers were going to spin this one. James Joyner is as good as example as anyone and I suppose it should have been expected. He trots out the perennial excuse, well they were the only company big enough to handle the job and besides she embarrassed the miltary brass so she should have expected to be demoted.

He trots out Clinton of course, (I swear these people cannot put up a post defending White House malfeasance without mentioning Bill), but he fails to mention that even if the same level of fraud existed, they weren't contracted for anything as big as a prospective ten year occupation of a hostile country for those administrations, nor did they enjoy a policy "plan" that conveniently escalates the violence so they can easily hide their graft in "security costs." I would bet the volume of fraud in Iraq in the first year of the occupation cost the US taxpayer billions more than the total costs of the other two cited contracts combined.

And Cheney's having given up his presidency of Halliburton as some kind of exculpatory evidence is laughable. He already has more money than he can spend in a lifetime. He traded the cash for power, that he used in crafting the fleecing of Americans new energy bill for instance, and he'll be trading on that influence when he walks on down to K Street once he leaves office.