Comments on: Iraq Rebuild: Your Tax $ At Work (Not)

American Investment in Iraq Reconstruction Projects At Risk, Inspector General Report Finds

[dustfullman]

All hail Haliburton! Mission Accomplished. The fleecing of America continues.

[norcalruss]

Nextpanet

LOL! LBJ and the CHIMP, what a pair! We do not need any more lying, self-righteous,
warmongers like them.

[tank611]

QUOTE:

'My money is funding Bush's revenge for his father'

It's not revenge.

And it's not because Bush Sr was his father,it's because Bush Sr was a FORMER PRESIDENT.

QUOTE:

'we are losing good men and women all for the sake of who knows what'

Our military personel are fighting and sacrificing their lives so that there will never be another 9/11 type attack. The war in Iraq is about preventing another 9/11 type attack by installing democratic governments throughout the Middle East,starting with Iraq.

QUOTE:

'Millions of innocent Iragi families are also dying'

Millions? WRONG. Try 68,000:

iraqbodycount.org

QUOTE:

'And terrorism continues world wide'

Where? Except for Iraq,terrorism is down all over the world. And there have been no terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11.

[generey]

ROFLMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Americans - Asleep at the wheel.

[nextplanet]

Our family of fifty states, our union, continues to have a trouble some family member called Texas. They have started and managed three wars and lost all three, at a huge cost to the rest of union. Vietnam, Iraq, and a war with Mexico that left us stuck with them to begin with. We should give Texas back to Mexico but they probably do not want them either. As old LBJ would say, "my fellow American's"...NO MORE TEXANS IN THE WHITE HOUSE PLEASE!

[inventagod]

"The administration is nothing if not consistent. Can people accidentally screw up at this rate? There's no reason to expect that they would suddenly start doing something right. Pure chance would result in a better success rate.
Posted by firststate at 02:00 PM : Apr 29, 2007"

Now that Bu$h is dictator, no one has to shine...

[feelfree1]

Re: "American Investment in Iraq Reconstruction Projects At Risk, Inspector General Report Finds"

And THAT'S the GOOD news!

[clemenhagen1]

Mussolini equated fascism to corporatism: the Republicans who seek to defend this administration should consult their history. In the fascist model you sell the masses on war through appeals to nationalism and patriotic fervor. You find scapegoats to fan the flames of popular anger as people reluctantly part with their sons and daughters unless sold on the valor of the sacrifice. Ultimately all of this serves but one purpose: the enrichment of the corporate elites. Can anyone honestly and coherently argue that this whole charade in Iraq is about anything other than crony capitalism, with its attendent greed and fraud?

[firststate]

The administration is nothing if not consistent. Can people accidentally screw up at this rate? There's no reason to expect that they would suddenly start doing something right. Pure chance would result in a better success rate.

[rharrin1]

I think it is time to start counting the number of people that bush has appointed to jobs that are competent and qualified to do that job.

Lets see there's umm or hmmm uh aaw hmmmm

[macusweil]

I want a refund!

Think Cheney made money or lost money on the Iraq conflict? ( I avoid calling it a war since it's undeclared)

The neo.con righties don't care how many of our troops are torn up or how many tax dollars go down this rat hole because the have made billions!!

[joanpz]

What SHODDY CONSTRUCTION - is it supposed to RIVAL THE BEAUTIFUL MOSQUES THAT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY THE U.S., what about CONSTRUCTING A HELICOPTER PAD OVER 2500 YEAR OLD RUINS - the WALL IN THE ABOVE PICTURE LOOKS LIKE ONE IN "GARBAGE TOWN PHILIPPINES or LEANTO SHANTIES CONSTRUCTED BY CHINESE DAY LABORERS IN CHINA - Don't send a BOY OUT TO DO A MAN'S JOB - oh yes, GW Bush wasn't seeking revenge for his father - HE WAS OUT TO PROVE THAT HIS FATHER WASN'T "MAN" ENOUGH TO FINISH THE GULF WAR, and to everbody's SORROW GW has proved HE ISN'T THE MAN EITHER!

[sharncedar]

"Why the two-facedness on debt? Is it good, or isn't it?"

Excellent post. The times in my life at which I've felt most confused have been when someone was cheating me and misleading me about. That answers your question about whether debt is good or evil. Or you can look at our founding fathers, with their quotes such as "banks are worse than standing armies". That was their honest opinion, not a witticism, and today our standing army and our banks are impoverishing us.

It is going to be a very tough fight to get this nation back, to get decency back. Those in power today have no respect for morality, for God, for patriotism, no shame, no pity for their fellow man. All they care is about power itself, and the decadent lifestyles they lead with their ill-gotten wealth. The only message we can give them, thus, is the exercise of power, the only emotion they will respond to is fear. When leadership gets this corrupt, these are times of great social struggles. When power respects only power, our power can only come through awareness followed by organization followed by action.

[radiob-2009]

oldthought I asked you in another post where are you getting the 60% living below poverty figure from? That figure is higher than most 3rd world nations.

[inventagod]

150 million....

drop in the bucket compared to 500 billion to keep our Armed Forces running for a year...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Worldwide_military_spending_2005_%28horizontal%29.svg

[hypnotoad72]

OldThought - to address your other post, how far back do we want to go with the 'taking over their land' philosophy? Ask any Mexican wearing lots of crosses as jewelry. Then recall Cortez and his happy band of Conquistadores and what they did to get the Mexicans of the time to convert to Christianity. In a few words, Christ would NOT have approved of Cortez' tactics, which were rather brutal. Cortez was just another insane, hypocritical cult leader.

Also, why the talk of taxation? President Bush has lowered taxes for the last 6 years. If you ask me, taxes aren't the problem. The exponentially increasing cost of living is - if 60% of us are now living in poverty. :Shrug: I dunno.

[j-whitman]

inventagod,,,
, Let's hope history gets it right...Listening to Condi Rice defend against George Tenent's book this morning,, Condi seems to think history will show something other than real time & past failures.

[hypnotoad72]

OldThought: I know plenty of military folks who keep avoiding 2nd and 3rd tours in Iraq. One person was a co-worker, proving his loyalty to my company by taking as much as he could and moving on to somebody else. (He has no loyalty to anybody. He'd probably ditch his wife too if it became convenient.)

Otherwise, I agree with you. And if America needs to remind the world that we are not irrelevant, all our politicians need do is stop handing out the money to them. Ditto to the big corporations who don't need the welfare (aka 'government subsidy').

As for globalization, the day it pertains to helping the world rather than tearing us down to migrate everything overseas is the day I'll support it without question. I don't mind helping others, but the cost is becoming too high. Unless there's something I'm missing, but as a bankruptcy lawyer once told me, it's a "race to the bottom". I didn't declare, I took the high road, but many people who are trying to pay back their debt lose their jobs... then ask why credit card companies want to give cards to illegal immigrants and one has to wonder what is going on? Why the two-facedness on debt? Is it good, or isn't it?

[inventagod]

Rebuilding Iraq was not high on Bu$hCo's list, lining the pockets of the rich was number one.
The current regime in Washingtoon is a fascist, Republicon band of thieves and murderers. There is not one socially redeeming value under this 'administration', as history will record.
The last six years has been a time of Constitution trashing and gutting the treasury.

[wattermelann]

We have the underfunded NCLB. We have New Orleans. We have poverty and unemployment. We have global warming. My money is funding Bush's revenge for his father, we are losing good men and women all for the sake of who knows what! Oil? Ok. Why not use the money to finance new ways of transportation? Millions of innocent Iragi families are also dying and honestly I really don't know why. I don't know the purpose anymore. Saddam and his cronies are gone or punished. We keep fighting-what terrorism? The route we have taken seems to be turning into a dead end. And terrorism continues world wide. Now what? It is time for a change of leadership-because this war is getting old and it is founded on an untrue premis.