America at War: Make A Buck Like Donald Rumsfield !!!

[AIJ Alom]

DUPE: See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=857249

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6308610

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sold stakes this summer in at least five companies after they were identified as doing business with the Pentagon, according to his latest financial disclosure form, made available on Wednesday.

Sold were all his shares in Millennium Chemicals Inc., St Paul Companies Inc., Sonoco Products Co., VF Corp. and Zebra Technologies Corp., according to an aide's handwritten note on the disclosure report.

The note, dated June 28, said the companies had been "identified as DoD defense contractors." The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a query about the threshold for such identification, nor about the reasoning behind the sale.

The 20-page form, released by the Office on Government Ethics in response to a request from Reuters, showed Rumsfeld's assets, liabilities and transactions for the year ended Dec. 31, 2003.

[short bus president]

1. but Alex Knott, of the Center for Public Integrity,

assures us that nothing wrong happened.

"Rumsfeld appeared to be under no legal requirement to sell the shares of any of the companies identified as Pentagon contractors, according to Alex Knott of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based government watchdog. It appears as though Secretary Rumsfeld wanted to hold himself to a higher ethical standard when it comes to public perceptions, he said."

:puke:

[Rose Siding]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=857249

[whistle]

3. "Ethics?"...spit....."We don't need no stinking ethics!"

[Moderator]

4. Headline and Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=857249

In the future, make sure your headline matches the article.