national budget

Corrupt officials are creaming off about $120bn a year - equivalent to a third of the national budget, a Russian prosecutor says.

The answer: when we leave.

See, the surge has given them a gift they’re squandering. And the Bush administration is beginning to set expectations for political progress accordingly.

So for the time being, the focus is being placed on passing a national budget. That’s good, but I think we’re all slowly realizing that they only way they’re going to start making progress is if they’re forced to do it.

And the only way that’s going to happen is if we leave.