Part of W's war legacy,

other than the fact that he lied so much, is his policy of private contractors, like his buddies at Haliburton and Blackwater, who got billions in no-bid contracts. From today's AOL News.

Tales of waste, fraud and mayhem by private contractors have been commonplace during 10 years of military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now a Congressional study commission has put a “conservative” estimate on waste of between $31 billion and $60 billion in the $206 billion paid to contractors since the start of the two wars. Excessive reliance on badly supervised private contractors indulging “vast amounts of spending for no benefit” is the heart of the problem, according to the Commission on Wartime Contracting, a bipartisan panel established by Congress, which conducted the three-year study.

And you wonder why Bush and his contributors like war so much?

Comments

Anonymous said…
Sadly, it still goes on today, three years after Georgie boy left office. Obama has done nothing to clean up government.
Fam Guy said…
Agreed, but he has had a full time job just keeping it above water after the mess that Bush left.

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