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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (29954)	6/10/2004 12:10:01 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

who says it has to be a man?<g>

To: DOUG H who wrote (29954)	6/10/2004 12:16:47 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Blix compares WMD search to "witch hunts": theeagle.com Those who want to believe are easily convinced.

To: DOUG H who wrote (29954)	6/11/2004 2:13:38 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I believe there are certain types of jobs that very few companies in the world are capable of carrying out and in those cases HAL and other American companies may be the best/only candidate BUT in those cases, were I CIC, I would send a STRONG signal to my friends at these companies that they are to play their billing CLOSE to the vest. HAL is providing support to the troops. They are providing fuel, and food...logistics if you will. The army used to provide that for themselves. Now we pay billions to contractors for those services. They are also providing oil field services and other reconstruction services. But there is noting that HAL is doing that could not be accomplished by many qualified contractors. They even provide security for their own operations. Apparently a shooter working for HAL makes $200,000 a year. The same shooter in the National Guard makes less than a tenth that amount. Kinda makes the National Guard guy feel a little funny since he left his family and borrowed money from his folks to make the house payments while he serves for peanuts. There is something fishy about these huge contracts. In fact Cheney set up many of the contractor relationships with the military when he was Chief Executive. A new way of doing the military's business...outsource it. It is only in the minds of leftist Bush haters that "the whole case for war in Iraq" was cooked up by "neo-con, bushie, warmonger, oilmen...blah blah blah.... These same oilmen wrote a public letter to Clinton...way before 9-11...to attack Iraq...and install Chalabi's government. That was back in 1998. The reason was because of the strategic control of oil. Read all about in the writings of the same people in the Project for a New American Century. I don't think it's leftists that are making them say these things. Then 9-11 came along. Clarke said that Bush told him to find evidence that Saddam did this. It's clear that Bush wanted to get Iraq...and the whole administration was predisposed to a war in Iraq. The facts speak for themselves. Orca