It's a pretty astounding list when you see it all on one page....
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GJ18Aa01.htmlOct 18, 2005
Casualties of the Bush administration
By Nick Turse
In late August 2005, after 20 years of service in the field of military procurement, Bunnatine ("Bunny") Greenhouse, the top official at the US Army Corps of Engineers in charge of awarding government contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, was demoted. For years, Greenhouse received stellar evaluations from superiors - until she raised objections about secret, no-bid contracts awarded to Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) - a subsidiary of Halliburton, the mega-corporation Vice President Dick Cheney once presided over. After telling Congress that one Halliburton deal was "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career", she was
reassigned from "the elite senior executive service ... to a lesser job in the civil works division of the corps".
When Greenhouse was busted down, she became just another of the casualties of the Bush administration - not the countless (or rather uncounted) Iraqis, or the ever-growing list of American troops, killed, maimed, or mutilated in the administration's war of convenience - but the seemingly endless and ever-growing list of beleaguered administrators, managers, and career civil servants who quit their posts in protest or were defamed, threatened, fired, forced out, demoted, or driven to retire by Bush administration strong-arming. Often, this has been due to revulsion at the president's policies - from the invasion of Iraq and negotiations with North Korea to the flattening of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the slashing of environmental standards - which these women and men found to be beyond the pale.
Since almost the day he assumed power, George W Bush has left a trail of broken careers in his wake. Below is a list of but a handful of the most familiar names on the rolls of the fallen:
A very long list follows starting with Richard Clarke and ending with
Martin E Sullivan, Richard S Lanier and Gary Vikan: Three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee, they all resigned from their posts to protest the looting of Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities.
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Nick Turse works in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University and as the Associate Editor and Research Director at TomDispatch.com. He writes for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, and regularly for Tomdispatch on the military-corporate complex, the homeland security state, and various other topics.
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