The key issue of next week’s elections is Iraq and a hopeful start to oversight of the disaster Bush got us into. Now we find out that the administration gets rid of the only person who was conducting oversight in the war.

Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip.

Yes – how dare we go after the corporations. We are expected to serve for them and our soldiers are to die for them. Fuck everyone – as long as the upper echelons of our country are doing good.

I don’t know about you, but I definitely have had enough of this deadly Republican greed. We have been in Iraq as long as we were fighting WW2 and that war had a hell of a lot more oversight than Iraq ever will.