Still More Good News!!

Congress has snuck a provision to close down the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction's office into the latest military authorization bill. If what we hear is true (in the NY Times' article at the above link) this clause magically appeared in conference but not in either the House or Senate version.

Let's see if we can follow this: a war/reconstruction that we were told would only cost about 3 billion, and pay for itself through Iraqi oil revenue, has proven to instead cost hundreds of billions and feature massive corruption (warehouses full of stacks of hundred dollar bills distributed to all and sundry), cost overruns (Halliburton), shoddy workmanship (see above) and general incompetence with no end in sight - and we're eliminating the one tool that has actually exposed some of this venality. Oh, and we're also losing the war and getting thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and the nation is descending into civil war and becoming a magnet for jihadis throughout the world who want to kill Americans.

Hey, what time does "Deal or No Deal" come on?