If this particular outrage had happened in the 90s, there would have been hordes of blow-dried brain-dead farts running around inside the beltway decrying the Clenis™ for everything from the extinction of the dinosaurs to the crucifixion of Christ.
Companies awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan have been major campaign donors to President Bush, and their executives have had important political and military connections, according to a study released Thursday.
The study of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors turned up more than $500,000 in donations to the president's 2000 campaign, more than they gave collectively to any other politician over the past dozen years.
And they still maintain that the miserable failure is not for sale. Right.
Let's ask all the Guard and Reservists who have not only been extended in Iraq to help look out for the 1600 Crew's investors, but are even being kept in the service past the end of their enlistments to make Iraq safe for the 1600 Crew investors. All based on the policies of a miserable failure.
posted by Jo Fish on 10.30.03 at 08:41 PM
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But isn't this the old game of priming the pump and striking oil? Unfortunately the taxpayers bear the burdens. Let's hope that this won't pump the prime rate. Isn't it time for Congress to consider an excess profits tax?
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 10.31.03 at 07:03 AM [permalink]
