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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (176394)11/29/2005 7:56:54 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
If you're in a for-profit venture in a war then you are a war profiteer. Yep.

Are you trying to tell me that you're working for free? Are you working for a nonprofit enterprise that doesn't take most of the money as 'fees'?

I didn't think so.

The situation with the Iraqis is the entire heart of the matter since Dumbya's only remaining strategy is a 'when they stand up, we'll stand down' mantra. Therefore, if we aren't putting enough into making them 'stand up' then we can't ever 'stand down.'

Do you comprehend that?

When I see the US living standards at the huge encampment with the Subway franchise and the desserts on silver salvers in refrigerated display cases then I wonder WTF is going on. Why shouldn't I?

It's not summer camp, it's a war zone. The faster we put money and resources into training and equipment for the Iraqis, the faster we're outta there. It's not rocket science, it's common sense.

While those trainees had one uniform and no running water or toilets, we have some troops with internet access in their rooms and wide screen TV's. Again, WTF is going on with the distribution of resources?

The corruption under Saddam was bad enough but it pales in comparison to the corruption under Bush. There's $8.8 billion missing from the CPA and $1 billion from the MOD...that's just what we know about.

There are literally pallets of money swimming around Iraq and war profiteering preventing the training and equipping of Iraqis so that this war can END. It's just simple common sense.

It's a stupid, illegal war to begin with so it's time to get smart about the entire thing and END IT.
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