Should we mention something about fiscal responsibility?
Ah, Iraq. The land of milk and honey for a defense contractor. Not that all those contractors have such high profiles. In fact, due to a clever bit of disclosure chicanery, some of them are completely unknown, even to budget watchdogs.
The Center for Public Integrity's brand-new report on Iraq contracting, Windfalls of War II, identifies at least $20 billion in contract money that has gone to non-U.S. companies that it cannot identify.
Maybe this is not what Republican voters think is fiscal irresponsibility. Maybe, for Republicans, fiscal responsibility has to do with funding school programs and children's healthcare. "Losing" $20 billion to private contractors is, well, just the Republican cost of doing Republican bizness.
(Oh! That's so unfair. So partisan.)
