I'm sure that you are all tired of hearing about this. I'm tired of sharing the information. It's such a messy and nuanced subject I can't even do it justice. So Please just follow the links I've put in and do your own investigating and thinking. The evidence shows that this administration has been at a level of corruption that makes Nixon look Pedestrian, Agnew look honest, and the Teapot dome scandal look like something out of Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post. Just incredible and if I wasn't watching it close up (trench view) I'd have trouble believing this much corruption were possible.
We need to put pressure on Congress and others to continue investigating the Iraq invasion. People have died. This article details a murder investigation related to the disapearance of 9 billion dollars in cash (pallet-loads of cash) in Iraq during the early days of the occupation. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/08/news/holland.php. When asked about it Bremer talks about "Ghost Employees" and claims he wasn't responsible for what he was responsible for. That is the current state of investigations. But if Fitzgerald did what other prosecutors had done, Cheney would have been labeled a "unindicted co-conspirator" when Libby was indicted. Libby says of his boss:
"Was that unusual for you to have the national security advisor, the director of Central Intelligence, the White House chief of staff among others in the dark as to something that you had done regarding declassification?' Fitzgerald asked."
Washington Post article
"It is not unusual for the vice president to tell me something which I am not allowed to share with others,' Libby replied."
No accounting, secrecy, and threats -- and yes death.
2 murders and missing cash in Iraq
By James Glanz The New York Times
MONDAY, MAY 8, 2006
The killing of Fern Holland, a young human rights worker from Oklahoma, remains as unsolved and mysterious as it was when her body was found riddled with bullets on a desolate stretch of road near one of Iraq's southern holy cities in March 2004.
"Now, federal investigators in the United States are grappling with a second mystery: what happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash issued by U.S. government authorities to Holland and Robert Zangas, a press officer who died in the same incident, in the days before their deaths?'
Try billions of dollars of funds. The Guardian reports (US Newspapers don't seem willing to touch this.) Even Waxman seems afraid to dig. They ask, and let Bremer get away with saying this:
"But to an official audit that in January 2005 revealed the "disappearance" of some nine billion dollars under his responsibility in Iraq, Bremer testified: "I know of no person who spent some meaningful time in Iraq who thought it was possible, under the conditions we worked," to impose modern accounting practices on money the authority spent."
And then go on to blame the Iraqis. Was he "Viceroy" or not? If so who is he Viceroy to? Bush or to King Faud? On the other hand, he could have been telling the truth. The Saudis back the Sunnis. We and the Iranians have been backing the Shias.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/08/news/holland.php
And of course those who are involved either don't get prosecuted or somehow "disapear":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121800301.html