<< since this has been going on for decades you could pick any year in any term of office and get the same idiotic results, couldn't you? >>
no. i don't think you can simply extrapolate such. i'd say that's a very simple answer. if there was $1.1trillion lost during the "bush pere" administration, i'd be willing to bet LARGE amounts of money it would have been reported by the media.
and, if you had read the last email answering james similar question, you would have seen that i was merely answering your question "from where might the extra military intelligence money come?" which you asked a day or so ago. just showing we don't have to necessarily bankrupt social security to do such. this article is hardly "propaganda", but simple fact. if you don't like it, sorry i touched a raw nerve. no "transparent ploy".
<< It's every President's mess, including this one's right now, because of the way the Pentagon is and has been run for decades, as the article points out. >>
from the following, it appears as though "this one's right now " is actually doing something about it.
"The situation faced by the incoming Bush administration was grave, and nowhere graver than at the Pentagon, where insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been heavily focused on the problem. Deputy IG Lieberman told Congress that "although DOD has put a full decade of effort into improving its financial reporting, it seems that everyone involved -- the Congress, the Office of Management and Budget, the audit community and DOD managers -- have been unable to determine or clearly articulate exactly how much progress has been made"
This soon may be remedied. With Rumsfeld demanding accountability and hacking furiously at waste, and lawmakers now calling for an investigation of which contractors have been paid how many hundreds of millions of dollars for financial-reporting systems that don't work, there is just a chance that something may be done about that $1.1 trillion for which the Clinton administration could not account." |
