Tired of hearing about so much corruption in the contracts handed out for Iraq reconstruction, the Republicans once again used a tried and true technique - kill the messenger. What's this got to do with Diblert?

First the news: Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.