More Bush Administration SNAFU (Situation Normal, All Fucked Up) as apparently the brilliant bureaucracies have blocked all Brit Hurricane aid of food, which is the exact same food all our GIs, and theirs, are eating in Iraq. Brits are fuming because it is "reported" that the FDA and the USDA are planning on burning all the food donated.

One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessness" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood". The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed. Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, to dump it at an FDA incineration plant.

Another triumph for an incompetent bunch of administrators appointed by "you know Goddam Well Who." This is developing into a public relations disaster too because lots of international aid is involved. It is really stupid IF TRUE.

"Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this crisis. Guys from Unicef are walking around spitting blood. "This is utter madness. People have worked their socks off to get food into the region. "It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen have. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it has come from Britain it must be destroyed.

Nice work, George. The Secretary of Ag is a guy named Mike Johanns, former governor of Nebraska and not a farmer or agri-bus guy. He is another political guy and he bowed to Northwest state interests in banning all meat that is more than thirty months old and it is apparently this rule that the USDA is using to block the Brit aid....

Washington, DC – Secretary Mike Johnanns responded to concerns of the of Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Larry Craig and Idaho Congressmen Mike Simpson and C.L. “Butch” Otter and many in the U.S. cattle industry in delaying a provision of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule that would have allowed for the importation of beef product over 30 months of age.

They are alleging that the FDA is involved too but the head of FDA, Dr. Mark B. McClellan, is not a political hack but he's not a food expert either. I don't know why they would be involved in this, IF THE ARE. Anyway, one good thing that may come of all this is that the appointment of political hacks to every cabinet post may be examined much more closely in the future. Then this is more bad news for the GOP which looks incompetent at many levels. Late Add: Whoopsie, wrong again, Howard. Michelle lays bare another mediocre Bush appointment upcoming of some woman whose only qualification is that she is the daughter of the head of the Joint Chiefs.