To hold you over

Sometimes, I guess, the joke can go too far.

This may be part of the reason things are so f***ed up.
The U.S. Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Republicans argued that Bremer and the CPA staff did the best they could under the circumstances and accused Democrats of trying to score political points over the increasingly unpopular Iraq war.

"We are in a war against terrorists, to have a blame meeting isn't, in my opinion, constructive," said Rep. Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican.

A Blame Meeting? Billions of dollars get shipped into a warzone, and our elected reps want to get to the bottom of the frikkin' mess, and you call it "a blame meeting?" I'm a little worried, too.
Democrats led by Waxman also questioned whether the lack of oversight of $12 billion in Iraqi money that was disbursed by Bremer and the CPA somehow enabled insurgents to get their hands on the funds, possibly through falsifying names on the government payroll.

You mean, maybe, like this guy?

Sleep tight.