Additional Awesomeness

In the vein of the post below:

A new commission examining waste and corruption in wartime contracts is getting a grim report from government watchdogs who say poor planning, weak oversight and greed combined to soak U.S. taxpayers and undermine American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, says U.S. taxpayers have paid nearly $51 billion for a wide array of projects in Iraq — from training the Iraqi army and police to rebuilding the country's oil, electric, justice, health and transportation sectors...

...The U.S. government "was neither prepared for nor able to respond quickly to the ever-changing demands" of stabilizing Iraq and then rebuilding it, Bowen said in his written testimony. "For the last six years we have been on a steep learning curve."...

Congress created the bipartisan panel a year ago over the objections of the Bush White House, which complained the Justice Department might be forced to disclose sensitive information about investigations.

Of course, I caught my first minutes of Morning Joe in some time...and my last...today and he and Mika, her perpetual tight sweater, and Mark Halperin were prattling on about Obama's massive spending programs.

Not a word about the most profligate idiot ever to hold high office (and that's saying something) who produced a few purple fingers and hundreds of thousands of bloated corpses for $2 trillion plus.