Pacific Views

Profligate Wastrels

Senator Kennedy's interview has Republicans in an uproar. But the political wrangling aside, this seemed like the most interesting point:

...He said Bush officials had failed to account for $1.5 billion of the $4 billion the war costs each month, citing a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office.

"My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops," he told the AP. ...

Let me get this straight... The Bush administration may be spending up to $1.5 billion every month to buy friends, and we still can't get more than a token contingent of foreign troops to join us in Iraq? And still the only 'friends' we have are governments acting against the will of their people, and creepy dictators that we barely want to admit the existence of?

Now we know why all of Bush's former business endeavors failed. The man starts with every advantage in the world, and can still barely get through by cheating.