(Madoff)+(Enron)+(Worldcom) = ?

In the Holy Fucking Shit department, we have a news story that has – shockingly – not made the rounds on Fox News or CNN.

The Independent takes a calculator, and puts the cost of Iraq War fraud safely in the $120-billion-plus range. That’s only the fraud by military contractors and actual staff, and is only the first cut. We *were* welcomed as liberators – of taxpayer cash.

I’d like to find some wonderful analogy or alternative use of that much money, but I’m too busy trying not to throw up.

Hello? Fox News? Rush? Did your AP news feed stop working?

Someone check Bernie Ebber’s cell, please.

I was reading a McCain press release, and I kept wondering, why do I feel like I’m about to have my pocket picked? Almost as if it’s been done before? Some.. other financial bad idea, not too long ago?

Then it struck me.

Creepy organization #1

Creepy organization #2

Perhaps it was just an unconscious link to one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. History, or maybe there’s something else going on here. Either way, you’ve got two old guys with a penchant for financial shenanigans, eager to present themselves as “cowboys”, and a habit of invoking god and country everytime they’re caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

“You Can’t have McCain without MCI”