How sad

I finally finished the article in the Sunday Post called Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq. How very sad.

Two quotes tell the story:

“I’m not here for the Iraqis,” one staffer noted to a reporter over lunch. “I’m here for George Bush.”

A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad’s stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq’s $13 billion budget, even though they didn’t have a background in accounting.

Can you imagine putting people in charge of major projects that have no real knowledge of what they are doing. No wait wait a minute that sounds vaguely familiar . . .

This just points up once again that there was no planning at all for what happened after we won in Iraq. With the attitude of "the vast majority of our troops would be home by December" or "it will all be over in 6 months." No wonder these were the bozos picked to run the operations in Iraq.

And the real sad part of it is the people who are paying for this mess are not the people who screwed it up but our soldiers and the people of Iraq.