Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.

And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip.

This isn't a war about "security" or "democracy" or anything else the White House has spewed forth as a rationale for it. It has become instead about how to bilk us out of everything we have and hand it over to someone else what wants more. My grandmother, having lived through the Depression, used to turn purple at the sound of the name Hoover. When everything about this administration finally comes out, George Bush is going to wish he were that well liked.

Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office - New York Times