Corruption in Iraq

The Nation's David Corn has a copy of a secret government report saying there's a lot of it. You know what I think a sensible response would be? Engineering the departure of American troops a return to power of discredited former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. There's nothing like an ex-Baathist whose buddies have, in the past, stolen as much as a billion bucks to help resolve this kind of problem. I'm feeling surge-ilicious already.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/08/corruption-in-iraq/46062/