How about $23 Billion

Following up from an earlier post, the BBC asserts that the mismanagment of $15 billion in Iraqi contracts may be closer to $23 billion: More Fraud in Iraq [BBC].

Even better, the current Bush administration has issued a gag order preventing discussion of the misappropriation of your tax dollars.

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

The BBC's Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.

Companies including the vice-president's former employer, Haliburton.

Ya know, millions are unemployed, millions have lost their homes, millions have lost health insurance, millions cannot afford staggering price jumps in food, gasoline, and utilities, millions have been displaced by the illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq...and what?

What is to come of this administrations' complete and utter abuse of power, their criminal and unlawful torturing policies, and its utter disregard for Constitutional safeguards?

Not a damn thing I suspect.

Isn't America grand?