Ossicones: the correct term for a giraffe's nubblies

I'm reading a book called Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Actually, I've finished the book except for the acknowledgments and the notes. Yes, I will read those. I always do. Anyway, I thought I would share some info from the book.

Defense Department auditors had begun to question the CPA's [Coalition Provisional Authority's] spending spree with Iraqi oil funds in the waning days of the occupation, noting that as much as $8.8 billion could not be properly accounted for, including $2.4 billion in one-hundred-dollar bills that was flown to Baghdad from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York six days before the handover of sovereignty [back to Iraq]. (p. 295)

It should be mentioned that the American folks in charge in Iraq were granted $18.4 billion that they asked for, but only one-third of that was actually spent. Chandrasekaran also reports that "as much as forty cents of every dollar was being used to pay for guards, armored vehicles, and blast walls" (295). While Iraq got new copyright laws, tax breaks, and traffic regulations, there was no one to enforce them. And if there were people to enforce them, there was no system to do so. Universities in the U.S. received millions of dollars to set up exchanges with Iraqi universities... even though some of those Iraqi universities with whom exchanges were planned had been destroyed. Yes, money that was supposed to be used for education in Iraq was given to U.S. schools. There's something so wrong about that that I don't know where to begin. And we're supposed to believe that it was more important to set up copyright laws than to provide facilities for cleaning up raw sewage? Sewage in the streets, no clean drinking water, sporadic electricity for maybe nine hours per day, and absolutely no safety—at least, that's how it was outside the Green Zone. Inside, it was the U.S. No, it was the upscale U.S.

Congratulations, George Bush. You ruined Iraq, enabled insurgents, and fueled a civil war. Way to go.