Responsibility

A draft of a federal report by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction reveals a $100,000,000,000 failure to reconstruct Iraq. The causes include bureaucratic incompetence, turf wars and a fundamental ignorance of Iraq. Some companies became rich by being the beneficiaries of unsupervised payouts of taxpayer money. In a way this mess is similar to the unregulated financial market with close political ties, spinning us into an economic disaster. It is not the American worker who has put us in this position. It is the effect of a government that has usurped the authority of our courts, compromised the press and shrouded the Constitutional guarantee of transparency. We have fired many of the politicians responsible and now need to prosecute the companies that profited from their close connections to Washington.

Does anyone have any ideas about civil litigation against those involved?