The More the Things Change

This is all too common and yet another reason not to trust the governments intentions. The facts are, give people power and money they will want more. And will do anything to get it. Throw a lot of money at a problem and all the crooks come sniffing around. And who gets punished for trying to stop them?

One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.

Or worse.

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.

There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.

He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers - all of them being sold for cash, no receipts necessary, he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.

A lot of lefty blogs are using this story as an example of how corrupt the Bush administration is, but anti-whistleblower laws are as much a Democrat thing as Republican. The sad truth about wars is they make excellent places to skim money and steal and resell hardware. It was true in WWII, where much of the supplies set over to the troops on the front line never made it because they were stolen and resold. It happens in every war and you would think there would be a serious effort to stop it. Especially when our money and material is being resold to the enemy.

The military, the government, are supposed to prevent this and yet here they are more or less encouraging it.

And they wonder why people complain about taxes. 

This kind of corruption and waste is EXACTLY why I don’t support tax increases or shifting money over for government enterprises.

Heck, the government ought to be giving us OUR MONEY back but we have so many people brainwashed to believe “we” owe the governnment money.

And then you have the crowd that supports higher taxes yet doesn’t seem to understand that there must be controls on government spending whether there are tax hikes or cuts.
What waste and exercise in the lack of ethics this episode demonstrates.

I really feel bad for the Navy vet but his experience seems to be fairly typical.

Posted by  on  08/25  at  11:51 AM
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