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Hello and welcome to another episode of Best of the Left Podcast.

Today we have clips from Randy Rhodes, Rachel Maddow, the Young Turks, Bill Moyer's Journal, and the Mike Maloy Show.

Let's take a look now at the clip file of stories we've been collecting on the cost and conduct of the war in Iraq.

You heard John Bogas talk about how those costs could soar beyond a trillion dollars.

By one estimate, we're now spending half a million dollars on the war every minute.

And now President Bush is asking Congress for another $200 billion for next year.

That would make 2008 the most expensive year of the war yet.

It's not just the cost that boggles the mine. It's the fact that no one in Washington from the president owned down really knows where that money is going.

The government is required by law to have outside auditors review the federal books.

But this month, when the Associated Press took its own look at the audits of 15 executive departments,

it found that the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security hadn't passed their audits and didn't even meet basic accounting requirements.

They were given disclaimers. That is, their fiscal records are so disorganized and inconsistent they can't be fully assessed.

By these departments' own admission, this makes them vulnerable to waste and fraud.

For example, the Defense Department with a $460 billion budget this fiscal year alone is easy pickings for every Jesse James want to be with an empty sack to fill.

There are 78 criminal investigations and 20 indictments were told related to contract fraud in theater.

The 20 indictments are a combination of civilian and military personnel.

So I am doubly triply quadruply appalled at this day, at the horrific conduct of commissioned officers at a clear breakdown in leadership.

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