WASHINGTON - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.

Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats on Monday that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.
Ex-officials: Bush admin. ignored Iraq corruption

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Nothing about Iraq has been on the up and up since the bushies decided to invade. We've been fed lie after lie in order for them to cover up their monstrous screw up.

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There is always going to be corruption in this sort of country building. There was in Germany and Japan after WWII. But as a government you have to ignore some of it in order to get the whole job done so you don't stay there forever and a day.

Why is it that Iraq has to take a different approach to country building than after any other war in history? People are still people no matter what century you are in. Not saying that its right, but that is just the way it is and has always been. So if you want us out of Iraq then you cannot expect us to stop every time corruption rears its ugly head.

Besides, who the hell are we to say they can't have corruption. We have some of the most corrupt people in the world running our government here today. And it ain't Bush.

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You sure are Stupid, Reccles.

Jeebus!

Following that same logic....who the hell are we to think we could decide their future for them in the first place.....

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And now, I'm the Elitist of liberal Elitists...

I think I just said that.

So we should have just turned the whole damned place into a glass parking lot and started over.

Hey, Nukes still have a place in polite society.

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OK....then who are we to decide that we can just murder millions (including women and children) and turn their homes and land into a "glass parking lot?"

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And now, I'm the Elitist of liberal Elitists...

If you had enlisted, things might have gone differently, Reccles.

When will the Iraqi Govt. do something about the corruption in the US Congress?
Americans need help!

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of course it is.

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Cussing out low class inbreds isnt uninteligent, its honest

Good typing is not inteligent its dexiteritous.

Everything you just said is total bullshit

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