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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132592)	5/11/2004 11:30:20 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

We've apparently caught them red-handed in a conflict of interest at least, and can probably pin embezzlement and political corruption "charges" against them (though jurisdictional authority is still in question for actual legal action). with all due respect, do you really think the Bush team has clean enough hands on this subject for their raising it to pass the laugh test? I mean, the vice president's former firm gets huge reconstruction contracts without competitive bidding, and eventually has to pay sizable fines for overcharging; the Defense Department's No. 3 (Feith) is closely tied to firms "consulting" on how to get Iraq-related contracts; the extended Chalabi family, DoD's hand-picked Iraqi proxies, seems to have a finger in a hell of a lot of pots over there, not to mention a shady financial background... putting the whole prisoner thing aside, and without any kind of Chomsky-esque imputation of simple greed and exploitation as motives for the war, it seems to me that the Bush team ain't exactly in a position to be credibly holier-than-thou here. Just another example, btw, of how the administration's incompetence or loose practices have come back to bite it on the a$$, because there do indeed seem to be major scandals on the UN side worth probing... tb@allveryverysad.com