Musgrave privateering in your wallet

One Dick Heyman writes in the Fort Collins Coloradoan:

Part of the privatization plan was the reconstruction of Iraq in which 360 tons (yes, tons) of cash was sent to Iraq of which $8.8 billion (yes, billions) was never accounted for. It is pretty clear that Bush fellow travelers did right well by themselves, but this is not unprecedented in history. A "letter of marque" was permission from a government (usually a royal government) that allowed private ships to attack the merchant ships of an enemy nation and keep all or most of the treasure. These agents were called privateers. This is a common synonym for pirates.

The problem in Iraq is that these privateers were not getting the treasure from an enemy nation but from the American people. Well, maybe I missed something among all the rhetoric and the American people are the enemy nation to the Bushies.

Wouldn't it be nice if we had a representative of the PEOPLE who would have the courage to question how $8.6 billion of the American taxpayer's money had disappeared down a rat hole dug by the President of the United States?

Normally I would try to rabble rouse and call for outrage and a letter writing campaign to our congresswoman, Marilyn Musgrave. That, of course, won't work. Musgrave approves of everything that "W" does and wouldn't try to stop any theft he condones. Could it be that she has a black patch over one eye and a parrot on her shoulder, as well?

'Nuff said.