Thank you John Kerry!

John Kerry voted for a funding bill before voting against it. The bill was going to pass in any case, but John wanted more from it than was in the then current version. He wanted more accountability and visibility on the funding expenditures. The things he was hoping to fix then have only become worse for the delay, but it is not too late to start now.

The leaders of our nation in the US Senate are devoting much attention to the alleged wrong doing of Custer Battles who received two million dollars in cash stuffed into gunny sacks according to Fox News, and are listed in the Top 10 War Profiteers list for being suspended by the Defense Department from all federal contracts for fraudulent billing practices involving the use of sham corporations set up in Lebanon and the Cayman Islands.

In the United States, such wrong doing is punished. If only more of us had listened to John Kerry back then, millions perhaps billions of US$ extracted from our taxpayers could have been preserved or put to use more wisely. Instead, Kerry was ridiculed for being right by people who should have been agreeing with him on this point, but for their partisanship. Election driven partisanship is one of the costs of democracy which reduce its efficiency. It is a problem in need of a solution and I welcome any discussion on that.

I see both George W Bush and John Kerry as American heroes in our time who have and are serving our great nation honorably. United, we can expend the appropriate resources to increase accountability and visibility in our government's operation to become more effective and efficient.