Saturday, October 20, 2007
Frank Rich looks at Republican war corruption
And its not just in Iraq, that poor country is just the vehicle that drives the many scams of Our Dear Ruling Party.
War profiteering happens even in “good” wars. Arthur Miller made his name in 1947 with “All My Sons,” which ends with the suicide of a corrupt World War II contractor whose defective airplane parts cost 21 pilots their lives. But in the case of Iraq, this corruption has been at the center of the entire mission, from war-waging to nation-building. As the investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele observed in the October Vanity Fair, America has to date “spent twice as much in inflation-adjusted dollars to rebuild Iraq as it did to rebuild Japan — an industrialized country three times Iraq’s size, two of whose cities had been incinerated by atomic bombs.” (And still Iraq lacks reliable electric power.)Frank should be careful, he documents a number of deaths, including a couple of convenient suicides, in his record of Republican corruption. It's enough to make you wonder if we know about all of Blackwater's services yet.
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