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To: Road Walker who wrote (355553)	10/21/2007 1:50:24 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573116

You gonna vote for a politician that looks the other way about securing the borders? Rape trees. Inside US borders. I wonder what the easy border politicians think of that? Show your wife. canadafreepress.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (355553)	10/21/2007 1:51:50 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

what's your point. Was it like when Carter went to the Shah of Iran and told him to put his georgia business buddies in charge of some large project in Iran and add 5% to it ? was it worse then that ?

To: Road Walker who wrote (355553)	11/5/2007 11:39:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

I wonder how much dirt will come out after Bush/Cheney leave the WH. Mr. Riechers’s suicide occurred just two weeks after his appearance in a front-page exposé in The Washington Post. The Post reported that the Air Force had asked a defense contractor, Commonwealth Research Institute, to give him a job with no known duties while he waited for official clearance for his new Pentagon assignment. Mr. Riechers, a decorated Air Force officer earlier in his career, told The Post: “I really didn’t do anything for C.R.I. I got a paycheck from them.” The question, of course, was whether the contractor might expect favors in return once he arrived at the Pentagon last January. Set against the epic corruption that has defined the war in Iraq, Mr. Riechers’s tragic tale is but a passing anecdote, his infraction at most a misdemeanor. The $26,788 he received for two months in a non-job doesn’t rise even to a rounding error in the Iraq-Afghanistan money pit. So far some $6 billion worth of contracts are being investigated for waste and fraud, however slowly, by the Pentagon and the Justice Department. That doesn’t include the unaccounted-for piles of cash, some $9 billion in Iraqi funds, that vanished during L. Paul Bremer’s short but disastrous reign in the Green Zone. Yet Mr. Riechers, not the first suicide connected to the war’s corruption scandals, is a window into the culture of the whole debacle.