AP:

About $10 billion has been squandered [so far] by the U.S. government on Iraq reconstruction aid because of contractor overcharges and unsupported expenses, and federal investigators warned Thursday that significantly more taxpayer money is at risk.

I don't get it. The government's Republican, the contractors are Republican, so what's the point?

Defense and State department officials condoned or allowed repeated work delays, bloated expenses and payments for shoddy work or work never done.

How odd.

"There is no accountability," said David M. Walker, who heads the auditing arm of Congress.

How odd.

Of the $10 billion in overpriced contracts or undocumented costs, more than $2.7 billion were charged by Halliburton Co., the oil-field services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

How odd.

Noting that auditors still have $300 billion of Iraq spending to review, [Rep. Henry] Waxman said the total amount of waste, fraud and abuse "could be astronomical."

I like it. But what I'm not hearing?

Chaos is the plan. Republican war profiteering is not an accident. It's a happy side effect of the chaos.

But heck, what's a little ol' $10 billion when freedom's on the march?