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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4248)	7/18/2005 12:13:25 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

It's only news to you apparently. It was widely reported just a couple of months ago that $13 Billion of the $20 Billion earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction is missing, beyond that only about $500 million had been spent on actual reconstruction projects. Nobody knows where that $13 Billion has gone and no one cares. Congress doesn't give a rats ass. Their job is to ensure that the wealthy and privlidge remain that way by any means necessary. The fact that $13 Billion of our taxdollars could just disappear without barely a whisper is an amazing testament to where our country is at in 2005. Meanwhile, poor slobs are going to jail for long periods of time for stealing far far less than that amount. Also, our cities crumble from neglect. We could build a new 2nd Ave subway, which has been on the drawing boards for 76 years now, in NYC with $13 Billion. What a shame that our country is filled with such utterly corrupt and uncaring people who aren't interested in building a better America. I hate to say it but I see it as mainly a result of blindly patriotic people like yourself who don't care that $13 Billion is missing, who don't care that our cities never receive the proper infrastructure monies to build important projects, who cheer on any war no matter how misguided or how it is based on half-truths and deception. This is why we are at this current state in America. Too many apathetic and just plain ignorant people. BTW, the War on Iraq has been a miserable failure from the perspective of solving our terrorism problems. Our very own CIA released a report last month stating in no uncertain terms that Iraq has become a new focal point of international terrorist training, and that the new breed of terrorists are likely to use their deadly skills in other parts of the world. Great! Isn't that what we're supposedly trying to prevent? The London bombers no doubt were motivated by the British/American slaughter in Iraq and Afghanstan. Would there have been London bombings on 7/7/05 if there had been no attack by Western powers on those two countries? Probably not. So much for our misguided approach to terrorism. Even the Iraqis aren't better off now. Measures of standard our living, like electricity and potable water, are actually down in post-Saddam Iraq. Also, the current crop of Iraqi military policemen are being accussed of similiar brutality that Saddam's security forces were accussed of. What have we done, except spend $300 Billion + of our taxdollars on god knows what?!?