Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Harbin.com.

Okay, Cambridge Analytica, well, you know, I just, just to put a bow on this whole Iraq thing.

Yes, it was yesterday, but we are still in Iraq today, right?

We still have soldiers in Iraq. We have Americans who are fighting and and will more will die in Iraq.

You have, you know have just an absolute screaming mess in Iraq and

Afghanistan that we have created and it turns out that it was all illegal.

It was all illegal.

And this is amazing.

Naomi Klein just documents this.

The green zone, the city within a city that houses the occupation headquarters of Saddam's former

palace was filled with the young Republicans straight out of the Heritage Foundation.

All of them given responsibility they could never have dreamed of receiving at home.

Jay Hall and a 24-year-old who applied for a job at the White House was put in charge of launching

Baghdad's new stock exchange.

Scott Erwin, a 21-year-old former intern to Dick Cheney, reported in an email home,

I am assisting Iraqis in the management of finances and the budgeting for the domestic

security forces.

The college senior's favorite job before this one?

My time is an ice cream truck driver.

Right.

An ice cream truck driver is now running the finances and budgeting of the country of Iraq.

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