Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
Political patronage, in the sense of secretly favouring protoges or fellow members of your party is perhaps an inevitable phenomenon, true.
Openly asking applicants for essentially non-political jobs wether they voted for Bush or what their stance on abortion is goes a bit further then just political patronage. This is a rather outstanding case rather then just another addition to a list of rather minor corruption.

If one imagines what damage this could (and maybe has) caused to rebuilding Iraq, one could almost label this as criminal negligence
I wouldnt be suprised if some of it was a clumsy effort to vet out any future Joe Wilson types- those who would take a position just so they can come back and say in the Press "I was the director of xyz in Iraq- and let me tell you, Bush has lied to us, we have no business there"... yada yada.