Graft Update
Yesterday, I posted about Blue State Digital, the Democratic National Committee and Obama Campaign web developer being invited to Iraq, postulating that the evidence of graft and corruption in government contracting was proof we had won the war. Following the lead of the original source, I was careful not to say the apparent favoritism was proven.
The Heritage Foundation blog has an update this morning:
Reporting on the ground in Iraq is Wired.com Senior Writer Steven Levy who says:
“[the State Department] hopes that a few of the companies will follow up and work out some technology exchanges or collaborations with Iraqis, beginning a process that will play at least some part in bootstrapping the bottomed-out situation into something approaching a 21st Century economy.”
So, this is indeed about government contracts and business prospecting at the expense of taxpayers for the President’s campaign buddies. Granted, the President had a nice campaign website, but it was nothing that a non-partisan web developer could not have also brought to flourishing Iraq. While we are happy the President has finally realized that Iraq is a burgeouning civil society, we wish he wasn’t resorting to cronyism so soon. Will ACORN be on the next flight to Baghdad to consult on community organizing?
