{"id":8727,"date":"2013-03-06T14:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8727"},"modified":"2017-02-27T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:44:38","slug":"ditto-sully-on-the-waste-of-taxpayers-money-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8727","title":{"rendered":"Ditto Sully &#8211; on the waste of taxpayer&#8217;s money in Iraq&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;under <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/03\/06\/the-nation-building-money-pit\/\">GOP management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other contracts went to cronies: the top contracting officer in Hilla awarded $8.6 million to a contractor, Philip Bloom, in exchange for &#8220;bribes and kickbacks, expensive vehicles, business-class airline tickets, computers, jewelry, and other items.&#8221; Still others got needless cash infusions: one unspecified school requested $10,000 for refurbishments and got $70,000. Government contracting databases didn&#8217;t even have &#8220;an information management system that keeps track of everything built,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;under GOP management. Other contracts went to cronies: the top contracting officer in Hilla awarded $8.6 million to a contractor, Philip Bloom, in exchange&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20067,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8727\/revisions\/20067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}