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Just imagine this in Europe: people would be protesting in the streets ! Why is there still no manifestations in the USA?!? Scandals come out every single week, ans no later than today, I read that the huge majority of the jobs of IRAQ were given to companies which supported Bush in his campaign.(see below article of Center for Public Integrity).
War against terrorism? What a @#* joke!!!
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/
Winning Contractors
U.S. Contractors Reap the Windfalls of Post-war Reconstruction
WASHINGTON, October 30, 2003 — More than 70 American companies and individuals have won up to $8 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two years, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity. Those companies donated more money to the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush—a little over $500,000—than to any other politician over the last dozen years, the Center found .
Kellogg, Brown & Root, the subsidiary of [B]Halliburton—which Vice President Dick Cheney led prior to being chosen as Bush's running mate in August 2000—was the top recipient of federal contracts for the two countries, with more than $2.3 billion awarded to the company.[/ B] Bechtel Group, a major government contractor with similarly high-ranking ties, was second at around $1.03 billion.
However, dozens of lower-profile, but well-connected, companies shared in the reconstruction bounty. Their tasks ranged from rebuilding Iraq's government, police, military and media to providing translators for use in interrogations and psychological operations. There are even contractors to evaluate the contractors. (See company list.)
Nearly 60 percent of the companies had employees or board members who either served in or had close ties to the executive branch for Republican and Democratic administrations, for members of Congress of both parties, or at the highest levels of the military.
The results of the Center's six-month investigation provide the most comprehensive list to date of American contractors in the two nations that were attacked in Washington's war on terror. Based on the findings, it did not appear that any one government agency knew the total number of contractors or what they were doing. Congressional sources said they hoped such a full picture would emerge from the General Accounting Office, which has begun investigating the postwar contracting process amid allegations of fraud and cronyism | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: keremiko | |
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Originally posted by frenchfries
Just imagine this in Europe: people would be protesting in the streets ! Why is there still no manifestations in the USA?!? Scandals come out every single week, ans no later than today, I read that the huge majority of the jobs of IRAQ were given to companies which supported Bush in his campaign.(see below article of Center for Public Integrity).
War against terrorism? What a @#* joke!!!
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frenchfries, we don't care about this stuff here.
We love our gas sucking SUVs, we love to overconsume.
As long as we have a job to enable us to pay home mortgage and car payments, as long as we have Football, Basketball, Kobe and the girls, a few days a year to bbq with a few bottles of beer; we wouldn't move our finger to radically change a thing in this government.
Yeah, we have some problems in health care area and education, but we'll worry about health when we're sick (because as our governments, we are short sighted too) and, frankly who cares about education?
Jobless people should get a job, period. It's just that easy.
You guys should losen up in Europe too, so we can live under one Corporate World Order, free to consume anything we want as long as we can afford it.
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| Posted by: Edward Teach | | I watched the entire 48 minutes and I don't really believe that it belongs in this forum. Maybe in the Politics and Governement forum or the Unexplained Phenomena & Conspiracy forum with emphasis on Conspiracy. I have seen this before on TV. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: frenchfries | |
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Originally posted by keremiko
frenchfries, we don't care about this stuff here.
We love our gas sucking SUVs, we love to overconsume.
As long as we have a job to enable us to pay home mortgage and car payments, as long as we have Football, Basketball, Kobe and the girls, a few days a year to bbq with a few bottles of beer; we wouldn't move our finger to radically change a thing in this government.
Yeah, we have some problems in health care area and education, but we'll worry about health when we're sick (because as our governments, we are short sighted too) and, frankly who cares about education?
Jobless people should get a job, period. It's just that easy.
You guys should losen up in Europe too, so we can live under one Corporate World Order, free to consume anything we want as long as we can afford it. |
Hmmm..Problems of health care, unemployment, security are as much present in Europe as in the USA.
SUVs are polluting too here, especially the last one of BMW. We prefer good red wine or Rose (you should too, your Zinfandel is a marvel) to beers , except in Northern Europe. I am also concerned about my superannuation, other savings and to buy a nice house, as close to the Mediterranean sea as possible.
Frankly, I do not see or feel any difference between European Lifestyle and American Lifestyle. But we care. Because of our children, because of doing th eright thing, and also perhaps because money is not that important: It will never replace your familly and good laughs with friends.
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| Posted by: keremiko | |
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Originally posted by frenchfries
Hmmm..Problems of health care, unemployment, security are as much present in Europe as in the USA.
SUVs are polluting too here, especially the last one of BMW. We prefer good red wine or Rose (you should too, your Zinfandel is a marvel) to beers , except in Northern Europe. I am also concerned about my superannuation, other savings and to buy a nice house, as close to the Mediterranean sea as possible.
Frankly, I do not see or feel any difference between European Lifestyle and American Lifestyle. But we care. Because of our children, because of doing th eright thing, and also perhaps because money is not that important: It will never replace your familly and good laughs with friends. |
My comments about "our life style" was not to sigle out the life style.
It was to state that most Americans don't give a damn french.
I lived in your country for 3 years, I know the life styles are practically the same.
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