I guess we don't have to wait for the Congressional testimony. Stephanie Taylor of the DNC already blogged this about the State Department losing track of $1.2 Billion dollars.

State Department Can't Account for $1.2 Billion Paid to Private Contractor
Posted by Stephanie Taylor on October 23, 2007 at 10:01 AM
A new report reveals that the State Department can't account for $1.2 billion paid to private contractor DynCorp. From the New York Times:

...records documenting the work of DynCorp, the State Departmentâ€&# 8482 ;s largest contractor, are in such disarray that the department cannot say "specifically what it received" for most of the $1.2 billion it has paid the company since 2004 to train the police officers in Iraq.

DNC Blog:
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New York Times
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The audit said that until earlier this year the State Department had only two government employees in Iraq overseeing as many as 700 DynCorp employees. The result was “an environment vulnerable to waste and fraud,†the audit said.

Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the chief of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, * * * added that “when you put two people on the ground to manage a billion dollars, that’s pretty weak.â€

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Jim Callahan
Orlando, FL

The biggest problem with Bush's grievances is that he will only accept an appropriation from Congress that does not have any troop withdrawal or redeployment stipulations. That being said, an incisive response can be made to President Bush:

* Unless Congress acts, the Defense Department will soon be required to begin giving layoff notices to about 100,000 civilian employees.

* Unless Bush accepts something from Congress, we will leave the soldiers defenseless and will lose 100,000 American jobs in the process, which could mean more casualties on two separate fronts--abroad and at home.

* Unless Congress acts, the military task force developing ways to better detect and protect our troops from roadside bombs will run out of money by early next year.

* This roadside bomb defense can still be sustained with staggered troop withdrawal and extended to the Iraqis who will need the technology to fight off insurgency after we leave.

* Unless Bush signs the bill we give him, the Army and Marine Corps will both continue to deplete our fiscal resources at an alarming rate and will be cut off from resources that can be used to better equip the Iraqis.

Without a total commitment to signing a bill, Bush is valuing his war in Iraq more than 100,000 American jobs, the lives of military personnel deployed in Iraq, and the independent, sustainable capacity of the Iraqi government that is currently suffering the occupation equivalent of international economic dependency theory. His refusal to sign specific types of bills implicitly denotes irresponsibility toward the military from the beginning; if he can't give the military everything, why would he choose to forfeit signing the bill and give them nothing? Chopped, partisan logic.