Bush accused of ignoring Iraqi corruption claims

Bush accused of ignoring Iraqi corruption claims
The Bush Administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi Government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats yesterday that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.

While Bush quietly butchers Iraqis in Sadr City because the media are too frightened to leave the Green Zone, we get new information that the corruption was at such a high level within the Iraqi puppet regime that the Bush Administration really had to not only turn a blind eye to the corruption, they had to actively hide it. Where are my right wing friends who screamed we had to go to war 7 years ago – where they at? I love how John Key now pretends he never wanted to go to war when he said at the time he did. Iraq is going to implode unless America changes direction.