A must see article

Yowch -- (and echoing some of my recent "Economic Suggestions" -- here is an absolute essential.

Eight Years of Madoffs: How American taxpayers lost $50 billion: "our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction -- a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad."

By FRANK RICH
in the New York Times