Waste Management: Where Did Your Tax Dollars Go?

Washington Post staff writer, Dana Hedgpeth, reports on the loss of millions of dollars worth of equipment in Iraq: guns, trucks, grenades in astonishing numbers have disappeared, if they ever existed at all.

In the meantime, the Democratic leaders in congress are about to grant the administration a blank check for continued spending in Iraq as long as the president agrees to spend $11 billion additional dollars for projects here in the U.S. No wonder their ratings are so high among the voters.

Perhaps there is some good news. Howard J. Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, has announced he is resigning after the holidays. Krongard has been accused of impeding investigations of how the money is being spent in Iraq. You could argue that Krongard has been Blackwater's man in the government.

NOTE: Am I the only one who fell out of his chair laughing when, following the news that America's spies are now convinced that Iran has NOT been attempting to make a bomb since 2003, Georgie Boy demanded publicly that Iran's leaders had a lot to explain. Evidently, he believes Iran has reneged on some sort of promise.