Outrageous: Baghdad Boondoggle

Michel Crowley, I just finished your article about corruption in Iraq in the March 2009 issue. Several years before your article, I protested in my obscure "Reflections of a Pilgrim Christian" that the war in Iraq was immoral and unjust. Those in positions of authority (Bush & legislators) who are ignorant of the criteria for a just war should have been impeached! Our so-called spiritual leaders whose silence was 'deafening' should likewise have been deprived of their status for culpable ignoran

As a combat veteran of O.I.F.3 I find it appalling that Congress is doing nothing to put a stop to this. I suppose they are just too busy drafting legislation outlawing interstate sales of chimpanzees or other pressing matters!!!

Why are we so dumb that we're duped in situations such as Iraq. Don't we have any smarts in working with foreign nationals?

Why it is always good to blame others for your own mistakes? What is utterly lacking in the story is that Michael Cowley does not mention any thing about Americans involvement in the fraud. Guess what, NYT has a leading story (Feb 15) about Americans involved in graft. Michael's piece's not worthy of RD pages...