The Untold Story of Corruption in Iraq


	The Untold Story of Corruption in Iraq

arifsali

5-16-2008 8:13 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59419ea3-dbb6-421c-9a2e-8b8cbf6f1a2d/61125FC0-135C-4F64-B711-9A95627D3FD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048" href="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chicagopublicradio.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048">The Bush Administration says its makes strong efforts to fight corruption in <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> — but according to my next guest — they’re making a strong effort to cover up corruption in <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048">Arthur Brennan is a retired Superior Court Judge from <ST1:STATE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">New Hampshire</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE>. He has experience helping <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Cambodia</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> establish its court system. Judge Brennan is also a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division and served in the Reserves for 20 years.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048"><P>Justice Brennan testified at a Senate hearing this week and said the work of these organizations was ignored and demeaned by the State Department, the Justice Department and the Iraqi government.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048"><P>Justice Brennan only spent a few weeks in <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> before his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he had to resign — but what he saw amazed him.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/content.aspx?audioID=23048"><P>In his Senate testimony, Judge Brennan testified that the State Department had “negligently, recklessly and sometimes intentionally misled Congress, the American people and the people of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/61125FC0-135C-4F64-B711-9A95627D3FD4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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