I guess because fraud is hard to prove, it just can't be!

Well, let's be magnanimous and call it criminal negligence, gross imcompetence, zero accountability, and just plain old-fashioned garden variety stoooooopidity that is rampant in Bush World.

Bob Newhart's: Theory of Accounting: "If you got within a couple bucks, it was okay."

A couple million bucks here...a couple million bucks there...a couple million bucks lost. What they heck?

Condi's people know nothing of the principles of accounting. How could they? They are unprincipled.

Nony sez: Oh and the 3 - 5 years for investigation into the charges? That is not unheard of...as a matter of fact, I would be more suspicious if we had been told it would be accomplished in a year or two.

No one claimed that the "investigation" would take 3-5 years. The State Department said that it'd take 3-5 years to reconcile fully the payments made to the company (Dyncorp) during the first two years of the training contract.

In other words, Condi "Heckuva Job" Rice, and her accounting magicians are ready to stonewall for 3-5 years -- whatever it takes to keep the lid on as tightly as possible on this latest fraud courtesy of the totally imcompetent Bush administration.

The Bush administration Department of War (DoD) has a budget that dwarfs that of every other single government department.

The Bush administration spends more on WAR than on any other single item in its budget.

If the Bush administration, gets its newest request for warmaking funds from Congress, it will mean that the Bush/Cheney War of Choice on Iraq will (so far) cost about $611,000,000,000 -- that's about $5,500 per household in the U.S.

Bush can lecture all he wants about "fiscal restraint" but when will the Congress tell him, in essence, to STFU about fiscal restraint and not give him another red cent for his friggin' war?

Bombard Congress! Tell them NO more war funds!

Do these sorry SOBs think we don't remember anything?! I guess they figure they can get away with flip-flopping (lying?) because they know their Dem opponents, are much nicer, kinder, compassionate people, and won't make gay marriage an issue.

New York Daily News

March 8, 2004

Rudy opposes gay nups ban

By James Gordon Meek, Daily News Washington Bureau

 WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.

 The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.

"I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani, who lived with a gay Manhattan couple when he moved out of Gracie Mansion during his nasty divorce.

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Giuliani conceded he's "out of sync" with his party's conservative base, but likened himself to other moderate GOP stars like Gov. Pataki and Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

FROM IPOA'S WEBSITE:

The International Peace Operations Association (IPOA) is a trade association whose mission is to promote high operational and ethical standards of firms active in the Peace and Stability Industry; to engage in a constructive dialogue with policy-makers about the growing and positive contribution of these firms to the enhancement of international peace, development, and human security; and to inform the concerned public about the activities and role of the industry.

Sure thing. Anytime the bottom line is a consideration in keeping the peace and stability, you can bet mercenaries are running the show.

Blackwater USA formally withdrew its membership in the International Peace Operations Association, effective October 10, 2007.

Sez IPOA in a press release: IPOA was actively engaged with senior management at Blackwater USA, both through our Standards Committee and our Executive Committee, to ensure that they were fully compliant with the IPOA Code of Conduct. On October 8, 2007 the IPOA Executive Committee authorized the Standards Committee to initiate an independent review process of Blackwater USA to ascertain whether Blackwater USA's processes and procedures were fully sufficient to ensure compliance with the IPOA Code of Conduct.

All IPOA member companies are required to follow the IPOA Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is a set of ethical and professional guidelines for companies in the peace and stability operations industry. The Code stresses human rights, corporate ethics, International Humanitarian Law, transparency, accountability, and responsibility and professionalism in relationships with employees, clients, and partner companies.

Gee whiz, I wonder what IPOA's code of conduct says about tax evasion.

for the Republicans, fear is a renewable resource:

"It's not going to do me any good to be pro-life if I am blown up"

This country is totally insane. We get what we deserve -- good and hard.

This Values Voter Summit may as well be named the Flip-Flop-Flim-Flam Follies.

These guys are pander perfect -- they say anything the super social conservative religious right wants to hear. Remember the guy in 2000 who said he opposed using United States military for nation building and promised (oh, so unfaithfully!) that he'd never start a war without an exit strategy?

Oh, but that's right...the Values Voters are not that interested in lies such as GWB told ad nauseum. Same sex marriage, abortion, and no new taxes are so much more important to these deep thinkers.

If Mukasey is viewed as a decent man, the bar has been set so low that it means only that he could be fairly good but not excellent.

The fact is, Mukasey has been vetted, interrogated, coached, and hand-picked by the Cheny/Bush WH. He is intended to be their protection against investigation and possible prosecution for war crimes and other impeachable offenses.

Decent? I think not!