Bush's place in History: the King of Thieving War Profiteers - from the Rolling Stone

[patrice]

Read this article in the Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle

Here's an excerpt that pretty much says it all:
"Thanks to low troop ­levels, all the military repair guys had been pressed into service to fight the war, so (KBR employee) Skoug was forced to sit in the military storeroom on the base and study vehicle manuals that, as a civilian, he wasn't allowed to check out of the building. That was how America fought terrorism in Iraq: It hired civilian air-conditioning techs to fix Humvees using the instruction manual while the real Humvee repairmen, earning a third of what the helpless civilians were paid, drove around in circles outside the wire waiting to get blown up by insurgents."

And the kicker is that the air conditioners, which the Troops *needed*, went unrepaired while the inexperienced contractors studied weak information to repair Hummers, which are responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands.

What shame is there in resisting orders from such an incompetent commander-in-chief? If this article doesn't change the minds the most devout Bush idolators, there is no hope.

[peacetalksforall]

1. I guess the king holds a low opinion of a broad range of humans.

[patrice]

2. I was talking to a pedigreed Red-neck Lady the other day,

I can't remember about what, and she volunteered the remark "To Bush, people are invisible."

I was surprised and thought that was interesting coming from someone whom, as I found out in chatting with her, knew absolutely nothing else about politics.

Have you heard about the property Bush and Reverend Moon have purchased in Paraguay? I think Bush is getting ready to run away from the political, economic, and environmental havoc he has contributed greatly to.

[peacetalksforall]

3. I've studied that weird Paraguay invasion by Moon and the king and the military

and the reasons given for the military invasion. I've tried to get people interested because of the water connection. People are always criticizing people who bring up Hitler - Paraguay is where many nazis headed and hid out. Sounds like they have an old caudillo style (U.S. approved) jefe running the country - the kind that takes orders and gives gifts, but can't protect - so the military is there to protect the Reverend and get ready to move into Bolivia (when there are enough soldiers and enough contractors) to take it and its earth resources over and take revenge for the Bolivians who said no to paying for their water to Bechtel and a FRENCH company (even though the Bolivians lost lives down there).

Wow, I just realized Moon crowned himself king of christianity and George became a king even though the Supreme Court said he was their President. Two kings. hmmmmm.

[unhappycamper]

4. Thanks for posting.

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According to the most reliable ­estimates, we have doled out more than $500 billion for the war, as well as $44 billion for the Iraqi reconstruction effort. And what did America's contractors give us for that money? They built big steaming shit piles, set brand-new trucks on fire, drove back and forth across the desert for no reason at all and dumped bags of nails in ditches. For the most part, nobody at home cared, because war on some level is always a waste. But what happened in Iraq went beyond inefficiency, beyond fraud even. This was about the business of government being corrupted by the profit motive to such an extraordinary degree that now we all have to wonder how we will ever be able to depend on the state to do its job in the future. If catastrophic failure is worth billions, where's the incentive to deliver success? There's no profit in patriotism, no cost-plus angle on common decency. Sixty years after America liberated Europe, those are just words, and words don't pay the bills.