If you haven't yet read the New York Times story about the new firm set up by Bush cronies to broker Iraq reconstruction deals, read it (Yahoo News reproduces it here for those who aren't registered with the Times). If you're rushed, just skip to the end and learn about the principals' many ties to the Bush administration and other unsavory organizations ("Mr. Rogers, the vice chairman who was a deputy assistant to the first President Bush and an executive assistant to the White House chief of staff, is also vice chairman of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, one of the best-connected Republican lobbying firms in the capital. Mr. Rogers founded it in 1991 with Haley Barbour, who became chairman of the Republican National Committee and is now running for governor of Mississippi. Shortly after leaving the White House, Mr. Rogers ... signed a $600,000 contract to represent a Saudi, Sheik Kamal Adham, who was a main figure under scrutiny in a case that involved the Bank of Commerce and Credit International..."). And Paul Krugman has more on Bushie cronyism in Iraq.

Mathematically, it's like this:

Bushies : post-Saddam Iraq :: Mafia : pre-Castro Cuba