The Bush Administration is often criticized for caving into corporate interests at the expense of the public interest. Word is that Cheney's old company Halliburton has already won a government contract for post-war Iraq and that the US Agency for International Development is checking out 5 other companies for $900 million in contracts.

In the middle of all this pork and spoils (or at least the "appearance of impropriety" thereof), could Donald Rumsfeld be the good reformer in all this? MSNBC did a 3-part series on the new military-industrial complex and how defense dollars are being spent on obsolete projects: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 So far, it looks like Rummy's losing the battle for reform in the Pentagon... remember last year's attempt by Rummy to ax the Crusader?