excellent editorial brings up a point that seems to have gone unnoticed: The termination of the work done by Stuart Bowen as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. It is unbelievable that yet again a guy who tells the truth about waste, corruption and incompetence in Iraq gets a pink slip.

On the S.I.G.I.R. government web site it says that "the U.S. led phase of Iraq Reconstruction nears its conclusion"- I assume that is the rationalization for closing the oversight effort. Wow! Who knew that? A timeline?