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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 04:17 PM
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Why Are We In Iraq -- Bush Family $$$ Signs
http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=9468&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

After Dick Cheney's tenure at the Pentagon ended, in 1993, he spent much of the next two years deciding whether to run for President. He formed a political-action committee, and crossed the country making speeches and raising money, according to Contact Sport, 2/16/04 New Yorker.
Records from the FEC show that Cheney's PAC contributors included executives of the companies that have since won the largest contracts in Iraq. Among them were Thomas Cruikshank, Halliburton's CEO at the time; Stephen Bechtel, whose family's firm now has a contract in Iraq worth as much as $2.8 billion; and Duane Andrews, then senior VP of Science Applications International Corporation, which has won seven contracts in Iraq.

However, while Cheney and his pals may well be the most blatant profiteers in Iraq, they are by no means the only ones involved in this grand war profiteering scheme commonly referred to as the "War on Terror." The #1 spot on the list belongs to the First Family.

War Is Family Business

Here's where the web of deceit really gets complicated. There are so many ties between the Bush family, the defense industry and the global arms trade, that its almost impossible to keep track of them all. But yet the wide-spread ties are hardly ever even mentioned in the mainstream media. Or a revelation might show up for a day or two and then its like oh well, what's new.


Goes into a long discussion of the history of the Bush's with Carlyle (and Baker)
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-19-04 04:22 PM
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1. Disgusting!
And thanks to the 'liberal media', most Americans haven't a clue as too how corrupt the BFEE really is.
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