How to spend a billion dollars

I thought I was done this week....but this riled me up.

Check out the Department of Defense expenditures, beginning on page 30 of this report from the Government Accountability Office.

For fiscal years 2003 through 2005 (through March 31, 2005), the Department of Defense reported 152 contracts with obligations totaling about $1.1 billion.

152 contracts consisted of 110 contracts with advertising agencies, with obligations of $1,095,553,853

28 contracts with media organizations, with obligations of $976,626

4 contracts with public relations firms, with obligations of $3,694,798.

There were no reported contracts with individual members of the media.

Um...call me cynical but just because contracts weren't reported doesn't mean they didn't happen. Remember Armstong Williams, y'all?

Oh...and P.S. we don't need to send soldiers to Iraq anymore.

Batman's gonna catch Osama for us.