KBR's Spoils of War

I know people's attention span online is extends to about 4.3 seconds per topic, but do yourselves a favor and check out this Vanity Fair piece by Michael Shnayerson. This is what real journalism looks like. I'm not going to blockquote any of it, because the piece needs to be read in its entirety. Save it for later, reformat into a better font, print it out, whatever... but to learn how your tax dollars are absolutely squandered by the Bush Machine's cronies, don't ignore it.


Oh, and if anyone is even thinking about lecturing me for calling The Fourth Estate dead (in light of Shnayerson's excellent work), bear in mind the following: While it's true good journalism occasionally sprouts up like a weed in a mall parking lot, many of the events cited in the article didn't just happen yesterday. A good deal of this information has been ripening on the vine for a long time, yet the media titans - a group to which Vanity Fair admirably does not belong - are too busy congratulating themselves and fellating Bush, Inc., to tell the story. That most Americans have virtually no idea how rotten it is - and, in particular, were not informed of the blatant corruption going on in Iraq prior to Bush's second coronation - only serves to further my point.