Saw an interesting news item about waste and corruption in the
payments to "contractors" in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Congress
bipartisan ctte had found that the Army (mainly) had paid out
more than $60 billion in overpayments, corrupt payments and in
a lot of cases plain blood money to contractors. In one instance
they found that protection money a contractor was paying was
being used to buy explosives for road side bombs - effectively
the US tax payer was buying the deaths of US or NATO soldiers.