EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS!

[southerncrone]

In the Sept. 6 issue of Rolling Stone magazine is an article:
"IRAQ: How Bush's Cronies Swindled Billions".

Although we knew things were bad, this article cites incredible incidents of their blatant, arrogant theft, not to mention the continued disregard for human life.

Please encourage as many as possible of your friends & family to read this article! It is truly eye-opening, if not completely disgusting how we hard-working Americans & our troops are being abused.

I am going to make copies & send to my US Rep. requesting that this be stopped, and demanding that they not authorize anymore $ for this money laundering farce called a war.

Our country may already be lost. ;(

[MadMaddie]

1. What we need to do is force them to implement

the "War Profiteering" laws that were implemented during WWII. This shit would stop....

[midnight]

2. I heard that being discussed months ago. Why didn't that get

implimented. They had this during ww11. Someone was thinking.

[MadMaddie]

4. Harry Truman--The Truman Committe investigated fraud

during WWII

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0302-24.htm

<snip>
One important part of former President Harry S Truman's legacy that Rumsfeld seems unlikely to highlight is his crusade against war profiteering. As a U.S. senator in 1941, Truman drove thousands of miles around the country going from one defense plant to another documenting waste and fraud. He then headed the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program -- the Truman committee, for short.

US Senator Patrick Leahy has introduced a bill..I am not sure where the bill is....

http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200406/061504.html

<snip>
The amendment is similar to legislation that passed the Senate during consideration of the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations bill in 2003, but which was stripped by House Republican leaders at conference, at the White House’s insistence.
<snip>

[southerncrone]

3. Exactly! I've posted this in wrong area, will delete.

[orleans]

5. link? n/t

[orleans]

6. is this it?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle

"How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.

"You start off as a well-connected bureaucrat: in this case, as an Air Force civil engineer, a post from which Robbins was responsible for overseeing 70,000 servicemen and contractors, with an annual budget of $8 billion. You serve with distinction for thirty-four years, becoming such a military all-star that the Air Force frequently sends you to the Hill to testify before Congress -- until one day in the summer of 2003, when you retire to take a job as an executive for Parsons, a private construction company looking to do work in Iraq."

[Major Hogwash]

8. We've been had!

Want more Democrats in Congress in 2009?

There's your bumper sticker for '08.
With a picture of Bush in his flight suit next to those words.

[spindoctor]

7. War profiteering is the Bush family trade n/t

[Quantess]

9. K & R.