Frauds R US

The latest entry to the White House scandal-a-thon is this charge of bid-rigging in Iraq reconstruction projects. A US businessman, Philip Bloom, is charged with using "'bribes, kickbacks and gratuities, amounting to at least $200,000 per month,' in order to obtain reconstruction contracts through a bid-rigging scam."

According to the complaint, Bloom "conspired with United States government contract employees and military officials to obtain fraudulently government contracts."

...Bloom, according to the complaint, ran several companies in Iraq and Romania, including one called GBG Logistics.

This is separate investigation from an earlier audit of work done in that region that found $100 million tax payers funds were unaccounted for.

This is why Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. This "war" in Iraq was never about WMDs, or freedom, or democracy or terrorism. It is and always has been about money.