Iraq: We Won, and the Graft Proves It
For a President hell-bent on “communicating” every flaw and foible of the United States, you would think Barack Obama would at least, every now and then, at least if the moon is full, point to one … just one, please … American success.
… yet another implicit admission by the President that another thing he inherited from his predecessor is a budding democracy in the Arab world, one with a civil society to support. Exactly two years to the day after Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the war “lost”, President Obama is sending high-tech executives to Baghdad to talk business amidst vastly improved conditions. The delegation is made up of executives from Google, YouTube, Twitter, WordPress, MeetUp, Howcast and AT&T. All logical since most of those technologies will be used to share this story and are industry titans.
From The Foundry, the Heritage Foundation’s blog.
Ah, but even in the midst of a “implicit admission” there’s a catch. The Foundry goes on to explain that among the industry heavy hitters is a decidedly partisan organization, the ultra-liberal Blue State Digital. BSD has ties so strong to the Democratic Party and liberal causes that the appearance of this is a political payback to one of their own … and possibly an inside track to a fat lucrative government contract to build websites for the nascent middle east democracy on the American taxpayer’s dime.
No-bid contracts were all the outrage among the left when it was Halliburton; is Blue State Digital in the same position? And if so, will the leftist critics speak up? No clear evidence yet, but there are plenty of web design firms that are politically agnostic.
Since the Obama Administration is so quick to point out errors of the past, perhaps they should be more circumspect in avoiding even the appearance of the corruption they claim to despise, yet apparently are eager to embrace.
