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Sat May-26-07 08:39 AM
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| 44. It's true. And on top of that, haliburton, kbr, bectel and others |
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get to carve up $125 BILLION in "WAR" funding.
It's good to be friends of king DICK.
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| -Greg Palast Pissed Me Off! |
blogslut |
May-25-07 10:41 AM |
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turning it off. |
seemslikeadream |
May-25-07 10:43 AM |
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Yep. Read his book, "Armed Madhouse." |
ocelot |
May-25-07 10:45 AM |
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Unintended consequence |
wtmusic |
May-25-07 10:48 AM |
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At the risk of being |
SheilaT |
May-25-07 10:49 AM |
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sigh |
blogslut |
May-25-07 10:51 AM |
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Having to reread something doesn't always mean the reader is dense. |
DemItAllAnyway |
May-25-07 11:05 AM |
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Thank you. |
SheilaT |
May-25-07 11:10 AM |
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To be more accurate, Mr. Palast didn't upset me. What he said upset me. |
blogslut |
May-25-07 11:14 AM |
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Honestly, it was unclear to me too. This idea is not new to me |
WiseButAngrySara |
May-25-07 12:30 PM |
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Sometimes I'm slow on the uptake. |
SheilaT |
May-25-07 12:56 PM |
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Okay I read it twice |
proud2Blib |
May-26-07 08:52 AM |
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It's about control of oil. |
mmonk |
May-25-07 10:49 AM |
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Let me understand what you are saying. |
Dhalgren |
May-25-07 10:50 AM |
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That's why the OPEC members hated Saddam. He had the power to dump a ton of oil on the market |
Nickster |
May-25-07 10:51 AM |
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from today's WSJ: OPEC won't open the spigots to help with gas prices |
sabra |
May-25-07 10:52 AM |
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USG can open the spigot, from the National Reserves. |
L. Coyote |
May-26-07 08:29 AM |
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Yes and no |
Warpy |
May-25-07 10:52 AM |
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Good post. nt |
glitch |
May-25-07 11:04 AM |
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Agree. It's like when Jughead managed to amass all the money in the world... |
DemItAllAnyway |
May-25-07 11:09 AM |
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that's funny....... |
tulsakatz |
May-25-07 12:25 PM |
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Then there's the matter of Dick's profits from corollary spending... |
elehhhhna |
May-25-07 10:52 AM |
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Or, in his case, coronary spending. |
Clark2008 |
May-25-07 08:17 PM |
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There is the Saudi connection |
wakeme2008 |
May-25-07 11:03 AM |
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Here's the story of the war as Palast's book tells it: |
BrainGlutton |
May-25-07 11:13 AM |
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Nice, it kinda hangs together. |
hootinholler |
May-25-07 12:25 PM |
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Interesting.. Thanks for the long snip about this. n/t |
KoKo01 |
May-25-07 12:33 PM |
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damn BrainGlutton! you don't post much but when you do...! |
orleans |
May-25-07 02:09 PM |
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Iraqis are pawns in a war designed to level the global economic playing field. |
Gregorian |
May-25-07 11:19 AM |
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yes indeedy |
librechik |
May-25-07 11:30 AM |
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Greg Palast has pissed me off several times |
magellan |
May-25-07 11:30 AM |
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So very true |
blogslut |
May-25-07 12:00 PM |
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Yes! |
magellan |
May-25-07 12:17 PM |
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yeppers |
blogslut |
May-25-07 12:21 PM |
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Netflix Users can get "Orwell Rolls" and as you say ...it's an excellent |
KoKo01 |
May-25-07 12:36 PM |
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I forgot about teh Netflix |
blogslut |
May-25-07 12:56 PM |
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So, let me get this straight |
DiverDave |
May-25-07 12:07 PM |
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It's a mystery! |
blogslut |
May-25-07 12:14 PM |
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## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ## |
DU GrovelBot |
May-25-07 12:56 PM |
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it was about *control* of the oil, one way or the other. nt |
HardRocker05 |
May-25-07 03:44 PM |
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Yes - it's not about the oil - it's about controlling the oil...n/t |
ms liberty |
May-25-07 07:42 PM |
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cannot help myself.. must pick a nit |
SoCalDem |
May-25-07 07:58 PM |
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It's cool |
blogslut |
May-25-07 08:06 PM |
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AND, Palast does not tell you the WHOLE STORY in this video, just his part in it. |
L. Coyote |
May-26-07 08:27 AM |
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I've been saying that for quite sometime and in fact posted about it |
OmmmSweetOmmm |
May-26-07 08:31 AM |
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It's true. And on top of that, haliburton, kbr, bectel and others |
dkofos |
May-26-07 08:39 AM |
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Don't Forget who the world's largest arms dealer is, YOU and ME, the USG! |
L. Coyote |
May-26-07 08:50 AM |
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That's one theory to explain the logic-free shenanigans called Bush's behavior |
Bucky |
May-26-07 09:17 AM |
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Palast's analysis echoes my own, as the real danger of Saddam was not merely |
nealmhughes |
May-26-07 09:55 AM |
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Thank you for the link to this video. It was incredible! As to RFK Jr. ... he has to go for |
OmmmSweetOmmm |
May-26-07 11:01 PM |
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surprise |
Solly Mack |
May-26-07 11:15 PM |
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No matter how you slice it, the answer is always the same: STOP USING GAS. |
impeachdubya |
May-26-07 11:20 PM |
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