With “Friends” Like Iraq, We Don’t Need Enemies!

The NY Times is reporting another atrocity in Iraq – the theft of 8,080 computers given to the students of Iraq by the taxpayers of America that were delivered to Iraq in February, and not one student has typed a word.

It seems they disappeared.

Well, not exactly. First the computers were held up by Iraqi “customs.” The paperwork was not right. Then they disappeared. Then an American General was reported in the Iraqi press about the obvious corruption, and he was silenced for fear of making the Iraqi “government” look bad in an election period and the case was taken over by the US State Department to dampen the subject.

Then, the Iraqi government suddenly “found” half the computers – they had been illegally sold to an Iraqi businessman. They were recovered and the US Military has them in custody. Six low-level Iraqi employees have been charged, but it is difficult to believe they could have pulled it off.

No one knows where the other half of the computers have gone. Apparently, there is a group that ranks nations by level of government corruption, and by theur standards Iraq is more corrupt than Mexico.

That is a hard standard to attain.