Because ANYONE who tries to clean up the mess/corruption only digs themeslves deeper into the black hole and end up on the inside looking out, not able to move, not able to trust, not able to prosecute. Take this wise and moral Iraqi.....in his new democracy he found NINE BILLION DOLLARS worth of US taxpayer money, squandered ....with some of it funneled to insurgents who killed American soldiers.

I just read this story and it made me wonder HOW any of this can be fixed:

>"In March 2003, Salam Adhoob, a prominent lawyer in the Iraqi city of Suwayrah, was glad to see US forces roll into his country. But when he saw looters ransack Baghdad's National Museum on TV, he began to worry that the authorities could not protect his nation's public resources. In the ensuing months, he was horrified as corruption ran rampant amid the postinvasion chaos. So when he was asked in 2004, to join the Commission on Public Integrity, a government agency charged with investigating official corruption, Adhoob enthusiastically accepted. He was soon pursuing high-ranking officials—as well as, in some cases, American contractors—involved in bribery, kickback schemes, oil smuggling, procurement fraud, and other wrongdoing. Eventually he became the country's chief corruption investigator, overseeing 100 staffers who handled thousands of cases. "Now I could protect public money and help make the country work," he recalls.

NOT! And here's WHY:

>"Today, two years after escaping Iraq amid death threats, the soft-spoken 45-year-old lives with his wife and their four children in a modest brick rambler (on loan from a local church) in a Washington suburb. Adhoob has no income. He'd landed a job as an Arabic instructor for the State Department, but was terminated after testifying on Capitol Hill that the US government has ignored the theft of at least $9 billion in US taxpayer dollars—some of it funneled to insurgents who killed American soldiers."

Read the whole article <here.>