For what it's worth ...here's an idea (simultaneously sensible, yet silly in that it will never happen)

-force Co's like Kellog Brown & Root to be fiscally accountable to every cent (of your taxpayer money) they get. And no, they are not a legal firm for those of you who do not know who the Co is...

-hold people such as Paul Bremer and those in control of such things as the "development fund for Iraq" (started with 6 billion $'s of Iraq's $ that was transferred to the Fed Reserve Bank in NY) accountable for where the $ goes.

Demanding this does not seem terribly "commie pinko" ...For example, I mean to ME it seems like if 88 million US taxpayer dollars is paid to a Co to deliver three million meals to feed US troops and said meals are never provided (but the $ paid) folks have the right to ask a question or two... (and this isn't "leftist blog gibberish"... ask Congress' General Accountability Office who are being stonewalled in any effort to investigate such.) But again, heck, what do I know... maybe there is good reason billions of dollars are simply unaccounted for. And by no means do I profess that this is a "red state" Vs. "blue state" issue... nor it is a new problem... It's just perhaps getting heppening on a continuously grander and grander scale nowadays...

-And people think folks lining there pockets here in Belize is bad!!!