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

To: JeffA who wrote (72387)	7/17/2006 4:05:56 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Quit lying, pal. The corruption is all over on the right and I tell the hard truth. I have been predicting what we see now for a long time. And it's worse than it looks because the Bushies have covered up a loot of huge crimes and failures. Like the fact tens of billions are missing in Iraq. In fact, if I were to pinpoint the #1 priority of Bush-cheney when they came into power (by cheating) it was to mjore than double the price of energy, which they have done successfully. But that's just the beginning of their crookery in privatizing our society for the benefit of the CEO class and to the detriment of everyone else. Plus, if you fear "people like me" in power just look at the 90's when we had the best economy of our lifetimes, surpluses and relative peace in the Middle East. What's there to fear by going back to that? With a little more muscle. And Kerry definitely has more military muscle than Clinton. Kerry was a combat war hero. Clinton (like Bush-Cheney) was a draft-dodger. But Clinton took out a dangerous dictator with WMD without losing a single US soldier. So he wasn't bad. Wes Clasrk should also be Defence Secretary, not Rumsfield, who is an incompetent crook of the industrial far right. Are we better off now? Not a chance. Not even on a single issue. We are much worse off now and you know it. So what are you afraid of? Change is good. And necessary. The large majority of Americans agree too.

To: JeffA who wrote (72387)	7/17/2006 4:07:24 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Who Is Stealing Iraq's Oil Revenues? (* Remember Cheney's pals Chalabi and his own company Halliburton control the Iraqi oilfields, so if tens of billions are missing, it's their fault.) Walker, who heads the Government Accountability Office, made his remarks at a House Government Reform subcommittee meeting last Tuesday called to examine implementation of the Bush administration’s 2005 "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq." He said one of the failures of the U.S. program was related to the prewar assumption that Iraq would be able to pay for its reconstruction "in large part through oil revenues." He said about 10 percent of Iraq’s refined fuels and 30 percent of its imported fuels are being stolen, in part because the subsidized Iraqi price of gasoline, about 44 cents a gallon, is less than half the regional price of 90 cents a gallon. "That provides a tremendous incentive to be able to steal these fuels and be able to sell them for whatever purposes, corruption or otherwise," Walker said. Walker noted that oil production, which was to provide prime support to the new government, is below prewar production and distribution levels, complicated by the insurgency and difficulties in maintaining the aging oil infrastructure.