The PSI is a big hammer. But as the Coleman subcommittee, it went after federal employees who were traveling business class instead of economy. Meanwhile, money was pouring out of the Treasury for any Republican who could write "Iraq" with fewer than two spelling errors, and an old Bush retainer was appointed special inspector general to oversee the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund - but without authority to oversee money spent on reconstruction by the Pentagon, which was where most of the money went. All of this Senator Coleman watched with a cool eye, and he now calculates that Minnesota voters won't have the attention span to read a story with a lot of dollar amounts and acronyms such as PSI and IRRF and SIG. Maybe, maybe not.
The simple truth is that while more than 4,000 Americans gave their lives in the war in Iraq, the war was an enormous financial opportunity for neocons and their friends, and Senator Coleman was a passive observer of one of the biggest heists in history. The cynicism is staggering to the normal person. He was the cop who busted the hot dog vendor for obstructing the sidewalk while the McGurks were cleaning out the bank. This is no joke. A crook is walking around looking for votes. And the truth is marching on.
