welcome to DU, verse18 !!!
that's a great website you highlighted ... nice to see DU "newbies" making such a strong contribution !!! ... you could have done "verse" ... i'm bookmarking the link ... keep up the good work ...
i often like to write a few paragraphs on something i find on the web and then provide a link and a few paragraphs from the article ... perhaps you will find that approach helpful ...
for example (i wrote the first part and then the part with blue background came from a link on Transparency International):Subject: Iraq reconstruction funds - corruption, corruption and more corruption
We've already heard about the missing $9 Billion dollars the Congress had appropriated to help rebuild Iraq ... or should i say "misappropriated" ... $9 Billion dollars !!! and that's just the tip of the iceberg ...
How can we continue to pump money into Iraq when it's clear bush, the WH and the republicans in Congress refuse to allow any oversight whatsoever ???
Henry Waxman tried to investigate the original $9 Billion that "went missing" and has encountered nothing short of colossal stonewalling ... even republicans should not be tolerant of the rampant corruption we've seen with the abuse of US-provided funds ... but politics comes first with republicans and they've blocked every effort to get at the truth ...
Here's a recent example of the type of nonsense going on in Iraq as the US just keeps pouring more and more money into a corrupt, bottomless pit:
source:
http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=news.view&id=118923&src=dcn Iraqi public works minister responds to allegations of corruption
BBC Monitoring Service, 07 October 2005
Text of report by Dargham Muhammad Ali headlined
"Nisrin Barwari to Al-Mashriq: Those who accuse me and my ministry of corruption seek to slander me", published by Iraqi newspaper Al-Mashriq on 4 October
In a statement to Al-Mashriq,
Nisrin Barwari has said that there some people are intentionally raising unfounded allegations against her without producing legal evidence so as to defame her both personally and politically. She refused to disclose anyone's identity, but sufficed to say that she would not degrade herself by exchanging accusations with them.
She pointed out that the timing for raising such a crisis was intentional and emphasized that her relationship with the Commission on Public Integrity has been solid and fruitful, but that the inspector-general at the ministry is uncooperative and that he does not accept the truth of the explanations and statements presented to him by the ministry, a fact which has forced the ministry to open a direct channel of communication with the Commission on Public Integrity.