Monday Night Funny

Ignore that $13 billion was apparently flushed down the toilet (after all, it's not like we really needed that money at home), and just laugh:

The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing oversight officials who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.

Western standards of accountability? That's funny.