Bushco's new War

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US
President George W. Bush announced an escalation of his government's fight against "kleptocracy" -- high level corruption by senior officials which he said is robbing the people of many poor nations of their future.

"For too long, the culture of corruption has undercut development and good governance and bred criminality and mistrust around the world," Bush said in a statement launching a "national strategy" for fighting corruption.

"High-level corruption by senior government officials, or kleptocracy, is a grave and corrosive abuse of power and represents the most invidious type of public corruption," he said.

The new initiative centers on the creation of an inter-agency team involving the State Department,
Department of Justice and the US Treasury to track and prosecute high level corruption and recover ill-gotten gains, said Josette Sheeran Shiner, an under-secretary of state for economic and business affairs.

Shiner said the aim was to pool together all the resources in the US government "to make sure we're applying a full tool box in the fight against high level corruption."

I would submit that Bushco should try his new initiative out on his own administration first. From the hemmorrage of the treasury that is the Iraq war, on to waste and ridiculous inefficiencies that are the Katrina cleanup, to the billions of real bundled dollars "lost" while being transported across a war zone in Iraq, his administration has acted like he has a money tree growing in the WH rose garden.

In fact, lets forget this concept of "a new war on *_____". Every time the american Government declares a war on anything, it's a good bet that in a couple of years whatever it is that has had war declared upon it will be rampantly flourishing beyond all expectations. Here's a partial list of our recent "war on's":

War on Poverty

War on Crime

War on Drugs

all ineffectual, all exacerbating the problems, while spending huge amounts of money that we need for infrastructure, for development, for cleaning up our environment.

And, of course, there's the ultimate "war on" which is the governments and infrastructure in the middle east.


We all know how that's going...





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