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 | | From: | Sorackem | | Subject: | Iraq: A Huge Success | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:21:22 -0600 |
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 | It is easy for opponents of the Iraq war and occupation to get caught up
speaking about it as a failure, series of failures, miscalculations or
outright incompetence.
I don't believe that.
I believe that the neo-cons have been very successful.
*military contracts for Carlyle group holdings and other military
resource providers
*extortion money for the Carlyle group
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30798-2004Oct13?
language=printer
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/carlyle.html
*billions of dollars in no bid contracts to Cheney's old company
Halliburton.
*locking Iraq into decades long contracts with foreign companies
*raping the cofers of Iraq by the Interim government
*opening Iraq as a free market experiment benefitting most any but the
Iraqi people themselves
*larger defense budget
*larger intelligence budget
*eroding civil liberties at home in the name of 'war on terror'
*control of Iraqi oil
*reparations to American companies by Iraq (yeah it blows my mind)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1328888,00.html
*re-election
--Others anyone ?
Seems like it's going pretty well for the neo-cons. After all, it's not
their kids dying over there, or their homes being bombed or their ground
being poisoned.
When they leave office finally, they'll be even more wealthy with no
worries. They don't have to worry about a recession, lack of civil
liberties, or just about any other thing that the honest folks in this
country have to worry about daily.
That's just Iraq. Anyone want to try and tackle their successes
domestically?
-B
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