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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (8712)	4/7/2004 11:11:03 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

I wonder how much of that 87 billion Bush got goes to paying mercenaries?

To: geode00 who wrote (8712)	4/7/2004 12:45:41 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Re: What's to stop regular army troops from becoming for-hire security personnel and billing the US gov't (us)? Would that happen? Well, in the past that would have been Congress. But they seem to have abdicated all responsibility for protecting the public from a criminal enterprise in the White House. Not only 'would that happen', it is happening right before our very eyes. ABC's Nightline discussed mercenaries for the half-hour last night. Ted Koppel did a real disservice to the American public by not allowing any critics of the privatization racket to speak. He featured the owners of the Steele Foundation (which failed to protect its employer, Jean Bertrand Aristide from a coup in Haiti) and another mercenary shop owner and let them give their sales pitch. Pretty disgusting. The ideas of our Founding Fathers about Congress being the only institution allowed to declare war, about citizen-soldiers and the fear of foreign entanglements seems to be important lessons that have been lost on this generation of scoundrels destroying America's reputation across the planet.