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[winterbadger]

Thanks to kmusser for this link. I'm shocked, shocked to find illegal preferences being awarded here. THis lady should be *running* the contracts office, not being pushed out of it.

Also, look here for an op-ed on the counterinsurgency in Iraq by the lovely and talented poliscidiva. Sorry, free registration required.

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[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I got the reference. :-) But you're right, it's basically payola and corruption. Try to fight it, and those benefitting from it just fight back. And they're usually in more powerful positions.

Not that this kind of thing is new to the US armed forces; the brass will always try to cover their asses when anything goes wrong by blaming underlings, which is so in keeping with the stated military tradition of honor and courage. (Here I am reminded of the USS Pueblo incident.)