It Ain't Just Halliburton and NeoCons Making Money Off Of War!

[wkmac]

In these bad economic times, seems a sad thing grows as more details come to light.

In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may exceed $50bn, making it an even bigger theft than Bernard Madoff's notorious Ponzi scheme.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110703135320/http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick02162009.html

 

[diesel96]

What's a liberal to do? TS what does the liberal mantra call for here? Do we investigate fienstien for war profiteering or do we discredit the news source an obvious liberal anti war site for reporting fienstiens war profiteering?

When a powerful Republican congressman's wife is hired by a bank, and the bank gets a federal taxpayer bailout worth hundreds of millions, what does it mean? That will probably shake itself out. The congressman: House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA). The wife: Diana Cantor, managing director of the Virginia subsidiary of New York Private Bank and Trust.

Wkmac,
While the Libertarians stand for that too, they also want too much freedom, by that I mean the legalization of drugs. This one item will keep most people away from them. You have to have some laws to protect the idiots in society from themselves.

What about the non-violent drug offenders in jails now that Gov't/taxpayer is footing the bill. Aren't you supporting big gov't spending buy continuing placing these people in jail? What about alcoholics beating their spouses and or family or friends?

I'm not going to explain it to you. Its too complicated for you to understand. Try not to burn yourself or burn your house down when you cook the ribs.

Is it me, or is there some behind the scenes history and some inuendos refering to "Tyrone" and "Ribs"....

In these bad economic times, seems a sad thing grows as more details come to light.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110703135320/http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick02162009.html

You know, when you get invited to a clambake, I hate the ones that don't open.......Just discard them, there rotten...

 

[wkmac]

D,

Tie's "ribs" comment may not be what you think. Those comments were made almost 3 years ago and in order to understand, you have to go back to the context during that time.

Tie was convinced Tyrone was actually Susie Driver and just prior to these series of posts, a discussion had broken out about BBQing and one of the favorite items on the menu was ribs. In fact, Susie and I PM'd one another on some BBQing ideas and she did have some very tasty suggestions.

If Tie was suggesting anything at the time, he was telling Tyrone aka Susie to "get back in the kitchen" so to speak if you might stretch to find something close to offensive. In it's context at the time, it had nothing to do with what you are thinking. Trust me, had that been the case, Tyrone aka Susie would have been all over that in a flashfire. She was not one by any stretch to leave something like that laying on the table, especially when it came from Tie's mouth.

I still think Susie and Tie were actually secret lovers and played this drama here to throw there respective spouses off the scent of what was really going on!



Tie just hates my ass when I do this and truth told, probably so does Susie!
I love a 2fer!