Just a thought: Maybe we ought to put somebody else in charge

So here's a story from the LATimes, mostly about how the numbers coming out of Iraq these days, numbers reported by the Iraqi "security forces," might not be entirely - ahem - reliable, which story sort of wanders off at the end to talk about other things including (and thanks to WIIIAI for finding this) this...

In October, for example, the entire command and control system used by Iraqi security forces to communicate with headquarters was shut down for two weeks when the government failed to pay the U.S. contractor that provides the satellite communications.

For those two weeks, U.S. commanders and the Iraqi government received no reports from Iraqi forces in the field.

It'd be nice if we had somebody running things who could remember to pay the phone bill, at least.