Iraq Contractors

Bush's Legacy Leads to Iran: Will Clinton or Obama Make Any Difference? Will You?

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The lack of oversight characterizing both the Bush administration and crony capitalism have bankrupted the U.S. and created the need for perpetual war. With Cheney stirring up trouble over Iran, we can't wait until November 2008 to fight back.

Toxic economy

Take the Fed's recent $30 billion bailout of Bear Sterns. Why throw taxpayer dollars at a company with massive amounts of "toxic waste" on its books, created largely through reckless behavior chasing short-term profits?

Going Broke Under Bush - How the US Sent $12 Billion in Cash to Iraq, and Watched it Vanish

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How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish - Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone

An armed guard poses beside pallets of $100 bills in Baghdad. Almost $12bn in cash was spent by the US-led authority...

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent... (more)

Counting Beans and Benjamins

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There's been a lot a big numbers floated by the past few days. Let's review, first the really big one, Smirk's Three Trillion Dollar budget which includes $719 BILLION for the starving military, including almost $300 billion for ongoing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. So how does he plan to pay for this obscene increase in US global military domination? By cutting the budget for Medicare, Medicaid, education, health care and children's programs. What a mean heartless little tyrant our illegitimate Dear MisLeader... (more)

As The Anti-War Protestors March On Washington, All Hell Breaks Loose In Iraq

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In scenes reminiscent of the 6th Armies assault on Stalingrad, president Bush’s “surge” appears to be a last ditch, all or nothing attempt to bring a military victory in Baghdad that it cannot realistically achieve.

Battle for Baghdad: City braces itself for US surge
Urban fighting amid the ruins
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
Published: 28 January 2007

Lina Massufi, a 32-year-old Iraqi laboratory assistant with two children, is a widow - her husband was killed by US troops when he accidentally drove down a closed road in 2003. In the past three months she has seen her house raided and her furniture smashed 12 times.

Smirk's Mercenaries Pullin' Out of Iraq and Afghanistan

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Little item via TPM almost slipped by.... Things have goten so BAD in Iraq and Afghanistan the mercenaries are pullin' out....

I think this is what's called a bad sign (from the AP) ...

Manhattan security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.

Michael Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Kroll owner Marsh & McLennan Cos., told The Associated Press that the business in the two countries wasn't worth risking the lives of their employees.

The Industrial Services Complex Formerly Known as the Military

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By David Swanson

"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex. Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous other corporate entities. The U.S. military no longer cooks its own food, washes its own laundry, repairs its own vehicles, or guards its own V.I.P.s. We've privatized everything, right down to the shooting -- mercenaries make up the second largest contingent in the Coalition of the Killing.

Private corporations cost more and provide less, or in the case of the reconstruction of Iraq: provide virtually nothing. There has been no reconstruction, and various corporations have provided literally nothing – at great expense. Halliburton has sent drivers to risk their lives hauling empty trucks back and forth across Iraq. And when a $75,000 truck breaks down, for lack of a spare tire or an oil filter, they blow the truck up or abandon it.

Impeachment Event Planned in Southern New Jersey

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Screening of "Iraq for Sale" followed by remarks and discussion of the war and impeachment with David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Board Member of Progressive Democrats of America

WHEN: Sunday, October 22, 2006, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

WHERE:Voorhees - M. Allan Vogelson Regional Branch Library
3rd Floor Meeting Room
203 Laurel Road
Voorhees, New Jersey 8043

Seating Capacity : 75-100

RSVP:
http://iraqforsale.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/6223

Haliburton continues to screw everyone in sight.

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Remember-Dick Cheney still gets a paycheck from these murderers.

Senate Republicans Kill Second Bill on Corrupt Defense Contractors

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From our 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' file, we have news that Senate Republicans followed up their rejection of a bill last week to penalize corrupt companies like Halliburton, with a vote today against another measure that would have formed an oversight committee to investigate defense-contractor fraud.

With only 44 votes in favor, the second such bill -- also sponsored by Byron Dorgan (D-ND) -- went down in flames 52-44, with Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) the only GOP senator voting for the bill's passage.

GOP Kills Senate Bill to Police Halliburton

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I suppose it's old news at this point that the Bush administration lied us into the Iraq war and that the cost of this mess will be fully realized by the next generation when Bush leaves office with the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history. And, while Democrats have been complaining for years about the GOP-led Congress abandoning its oversight of the executive branch's wrongdoing, a vote that took place in the Senate last week shows how the Republican desire to ignore fraud and abuse extends right into killing legislation that would help stop defense contractors from ripping off the American people.

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