Investigate till the cows come home

Digby's right about this, and I'm sick of the inside-the-beltway pundits 9e.g., Thomas Edsall in today's NY Times) who keep saying the Dems should go easy on their investigations because they'll look vindictive or whatever:

I sincerely hope that the Democrats in the House and Senate, no matter how much pressure they get to do otherwise from the "centrist" Mandarins and callow Kewl Kidz, go hard after the Bush administration on war profiteering, cronyism, corruption and waste. This is a rare opportunity for the Democrats to properly expose the Republicans for the crooks they are --- and dispell the myth once and for all that they are the wise stewards of the taxpayers money.

With Rumsfeld's ignominious and overdue downfall, and the new willingness, however tepid, among the press to look at the malfeasance in the pentagon, this may be the best opportunity they will have in decades to show just what a mistake it is to write blank chacks for military spending.

Read Digby's whole post. It's got lots of details on how screwed up Rumsfeld's DOD actually was.