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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: MrLucky who wrote (2618)12/12/2003 6:31:35 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Bush should never have allowed bloated no-bid contracts to cronies in the first place. If Clinton had done such things you'd have been crying for indictments.

We're talking billions of dollars in tax-payer money into the pig trough. Have you seen the Newsweek article about where the 87 billion goes? We are hiring Halliburton and private US personnel to do jobs Iraqis could do, thousands of them. These US personel get $1500 a day while Iraqis would work for 8$ a day. These US personel include bodyguards for every US person working over there, oil-field roughnecks, sanitation workers, etc. BTW: Now Iraqi security force guys are starting to quit in droves because they're underpaid and they don't want to fight for US corporate interests.

These contracts are corrupt and a total waste of money. Bush is only promising to look into it now because it's become a scandal on the front pages.

There should be a thorough cost analysis here plus an investigation into where the Iraqi oil revenues (which were supposed to pay for all this) are really going. I smell a HUGE rat over there and it starts with companies like Halliburton and Bectel, close-close cronies of the White House for many years.

Now you see why they didn't want the UN involved, they wouldn't be able to siphon off billions.

The term "Bushies" comes from Fox News, not CNN.
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