Comments on: Senators Demand Audit Of Iraq Oil Revenue

After U.S. Invests Billions In Reconstruction, GAO Asked To Investigate Where Revenues Have Gone

[brianbwb-2009]

"The GAO concluded in a January report that the Bush administration used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was making progress in managing its budget."

OK, since Bush also lied to the GAO, we should determine the dollar amount of the difference, and require Bush to repay it from his personal wealth.

[rowdytexan2]

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School, the most demanding law school on the planet, in the top 1/5 of his class [magna c*um laude], where he was the first Black President of Harvard Law Review.

This decision is, as they say, a no-brainer.


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Posted by Iceman_1960 at 09:12 PM : Mar 09, 2008

Ice, I worked for a Texas Supreme Court Justice for five years, had those same Harvard statistics as Obama, couldn''t look up WalMart in the phone book.

Being Editor of the Harvard Law Review means you are very smart, doesnt mean you have common sense, or are presidential material.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by alphaa10 at 09:00 PM : Mar 09, 2008

Well said!

[smirk5]

The same Admin that tells us we can''t leave Iraq or things will fall apart is the same Admin that told us Iraqi oil would pay for the entire reconstruction.

[stn_sage]

1. I''m alarmed by---but not surprised by---the discrepancy in figures reported by our govt & the Iraq govt.
2. While not mentioned in this article, John McCain is senior republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And, he did NOT sign the letter expressing
concern and requesting this review! Yet, this man purports to want to be our next president?! His failure to sign it clearly indicates a man who doesn''t have the best interest of his country in mind!
3. After having armed all sides in this war---Kurds,Sunnis,& ******---if they decide to unite and turn on us, we''ll be hard-pressed to stop them without tremendous loss of life and long-term consequences.

Conclusion: This is one fine mess that Bush/Cheney/GOP have created. In all likelihood, the U.S. public is going to end up paying for this disaster when we shouldn''t. Thanks a lot!

[iceman_1960]

"After the Spanish American War of 1898 in the Philippines, the US Army used waterboarding which was called the "water cure" or "Chinese water torture" at the time. Major Edwin Glenn was court martialed and sentenced to 10 years hard labour for waterboarding a suspected insurgent.

President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the court-martial of the American General on the island of Samar for allowing his troops to waterboard, when the court-martial found only that he had acted with excessive zeal Roosevelt disregarded the verdict and had the General dismissed from the Army.

During World War II, Japanese troops, especially the Kempeitai, as well as the Gestapo, the German secret police, used waterboarding as a method of torture. During the Japanese occupation of Singapore the Double Tenth Incident occurred, this included waterboarding consisted of binding or holding down the victim on his back, placing a cloth over his mouth and nose, and pouring water onto the cloth. In this version, interrogation continued during the torture, with the interrogators beating the victim if he did not reply and the victim swallowing water if he opened his mouth to answer or breathe. When the victim could ingest no more water, the interrogators would beat or jump on his distended stomach."

Waterboarding was also used on captured American pilots after the Doolittle Raid."

- Wikipedia

[toolmangler-2009]

As with any criminal fraud, it''''s all good for the thieves, as long as it lasts. But greed always exceeds the grasp. What Big Oil wants now is to plunder America''''s remaining natural resources-- owned by the American people-- at a fraction of its market value, and lay the coastal areas waste.

Al Qaeda never planned an assault as damaging as that.

Posted by alphaa10 at 08:59 PM : Mar 09, 2008



Well said, I agree 100%

[iceman_1960]

"McCain was a party man when he took pilot training out of the academy, driving a Corvette, dating "Marie the Flame of Florida," a dancer who cleaned her fingernails with her switchblade."
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I wonder if she"s still around.

She"d make an interesting running mate.

[iceman_1960]

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School, the most demanding law school on the planet, in the top 1/5 of his class [magna c*um laude], where he was the first Black President of Harvard Law Review.

This decision is, as they say, a no-brainer.

[iceman_1960]

"an inexperienced Arab-Muslim-teenager crack&marijuana confessed user named HUSSEIN OSAMA."
- Posted by BaghdadsHere at 08:37 PM
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Give me a break -- that was in high school.

John McCain had a troubled record in those days too. He was so frequently in trouble in high school, where he was plagued by bad grades and violent outbursts, that he earned the nicknames "Punk" and "McNasty."

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.

McCain was a party man when he took pilot training out of the academy, driving a Corvette, dating "Marie the Flame of Florida," a dancer who cleaned her fingernails with her switchblade. He said he "generally misused my good health and youth."

Source:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-11-03-998821539_x.htm

[j-whitman]

Ice,,,, McCain didn''t listen to Powell at all ---

Powell said if you are going in, which he wouldn''t have gone into Iraq, you do it with overwhelming force, accomplish the mission, then get out.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by alphaa10 at 08:59 PM

The beauty and dignity of corporate welfare.

[alphaa10-2009]

RingADing3 said, "Gas prices will come down when we drill for oil in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast of America..."
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Who is "we"? This poster is certified lobbyist for Big Oil, which already gets a massive subsidy which it pretends to need to find more oil-- even after Exxon made $40 billion last year from the groaning budgets of American consumers.

As with any criminal fraud, it''s all good for the thieves, as long as it lasts. But greed always exceeds the grasp. What Big Oil wants now is to plunder America''s remaining natural resources-- owned by the American people-- at a fraction of its market value, and lay the coastal areas waste.

Al Qaeda never planned an assault as damaging as that.

[alphaa10-2009]

RingADing3 said, "Gas prices will come down when we drill for oil in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and on the West Coast of America..."
---
Who is "we"? This poster is certified lobbyist for Big Oil, which already gets a massive subsidy which it pretends to need to find more oil-- even after Exxon made $40 billion last year from the groaning budgets of American consumers.

As with any criminal fraud, it''s all good for the thieves, as long as it lasts. But greed always exceeds the grasp. What Big Oil wants now is to plunder America''s remaining natural resources-- owned by the American people-- at a fraction of its market value, and lay the coastal areas waste.

Al Qaeda never planned an assault as damaging as that.

[rudy654-2009]

Man, had this happened with Clinton in office they would have hired extra prosecutors and dug deep. Hate radio would have been screaming bloody murder.

[iceman_1960]

Should we listen to a former POW like McCain on the issue of torture ?

Or should we listen to a pair of rich, pampered, chickenhawk dilettantes like Bush and Cheney ?
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"Pelley asked him about American interrogation methods today. Asked if water boarding is torture, McCain said, "Sure. Yes. Without a doubt."

"So the United States has been torturing POWs?" Pelley asked.

"Yes. Scott, we prosecuted Japanese war criminals after World War II. And one of the charges brought against them, for which they were convicted, was that they water-boarded Americans," McCain said.

"How did we lose our way?" Pelley asked.

"I don"t know the answer to that. I think one of the failures maybe was not to listen more to our military leadership, including people like General Colin Powell, on this issue," McCain said."

[mcv57]

There is a good possibility that the Bushwacker will be in jail before his term. If the Senate uncovers this scam and they can connect the Bush dynasty to kickbacks, the White House will be overthrown. But that is MOUNTAIN of government corruption to mow-down. Yet with Congressional litigation, its possible that the Bush corruption can be brought to its knees and face justice - hopefully place the U.S. Supreme Court in colusion.

[mcv57]

There is a good possibility that the Bushwacker will be in jail before his term. If the Senate uncovers this scam and they can connect the Bush dynasty to kickbacks, the White House will be overthrown. But that is MOUNTAIN of government corruption to mow-down. Yet with Congressional litigation, its possible that the Bush corruption can be brought to its knees and face justice - hopefully place the U.S. Supreme Court in colusion.

[mcv57]

There is a good possibility that the Bushwacker will be in jail before his term. If the Senate uncovers this scam and they can connect the Bush dynasty to kickbacks, the White House will be overthrown. But that is MOUNTAIN of government corruption to mow-down. Yet with Congressional litigation, its possible that the Bush corruption can be brought to its knees and face justice - hopefully place the U.S. Supreme Court in colusion.

[mcv57]

There is a good possibility that the Bushwacker will be in jail before his term. If the Senate uncovers this scam and they can connect the Bush dynasty to kickbacks, the White House will be overthrown. But that is MOUNTAIN of government corruption to mow-down. Yet with Congressional litigation, its possible that the Bush corruption can be brought to its knees and face justice - hopefully place the U.S. Supreme Court in colusion.