DUmbasses decry war profiteers

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

suepeace

This is great. The Chicago Tribune was also just about the ONLY major news outlet to talk about the Knoxville murders.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,5934269.story

Son of the Mist

War is a Racket

Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired

That Smedley Butler fellow is very popular at DU. His book is cited regularly and you can even choose him as an avatar.

sserich88

and who says crime doesn't pay?

Here's another thread:

SPOON!

By Center for Corporate Responsibility
You know it's bad when Halliburton is #7

http://www.guerrillanews.com/article...le.php?id=1029

Introduction

At the beginning of the Iraq war, Andrew Natsios, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), proclaimed that the reconstruction of Iraq would look like a modern-day Marshall Plan. But a year and a half later, a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude, corporate corruption and the growing Iraqi resistance threaten to undermine the Bush administration’s grand designs.

In mid-July, U.S. officials admitted that fewer than 140 of the 2,300 reconstruction projects funded by the U.S. were underway. Although AID says “dirt has been turned” on 1,167 projects including schools and hospitals, with at least 70 new ones staring each week, it’s unlikely that the big picture has changed much. The kidnapping and execution of contract personnel and the ongoing sabotage of key projects—power plants, electricity lines and oil pipelines—has slowed work in many areas of the country to a crawl, jacking up the cost of security, insurance and other ancillary expenditures, which in most cases amount to half of the contractors’ budgets.

By August, Ambassador John Negroponte had to announce that more than $3 billion of $18 billion in U.S. aid earmarked by Congress for engineering and reconstruction work would be used for security and counterinsurgency operations.

The announcement was tacit recognition that a kind of vicious cycle is at work. The aggravation caused by the lack of electricity and other basic services is certain to be blamed on the CPA and the contractors, which could result in further support for the resistance. Exactly how much the resistance has gained from the festering resentments caused by the stalled reconstruction process is difficult to say. But an increase in attacks on construction sites – more than one a day according to the Army – indicates that they are a clear target of the resistance.

In late December, Contrack International, the lead partner on a $320 million transportation systems contract, announced that it was withdrawing from Iraq because of “prohibitive” security costs.

By the fall, news that just 7 percent of the $18 billion originally allocated for reconstruction set off fireworks in Congress...................

http://www.guerrillanews.com/article...le.php?id=1029
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Of course it would be a proper meme decrying war profiteering without mention of the BFEE:

Default Bush Dynasty Of War Profiteering
Check the entire article. Like Bob Whitaker says, "Follow The Money!"


........A Glimpse Into The Bush Family Dynasty's War-Profiteering Modus Operandi. George W. "Dubya" Bush's paternal uncle, William H.T. "Bucky" Bush of St. Louis, recently managed to profit from his nephew's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the amount of $450,000.00. How? Through his seat on the board of a St. Louis-based defense contractor, Engineered Support Systems Incorporated ("ESSI").

"Bucky" Bush was appointed to ESSI's Board of Directors in 2000, for which ESSI promptly remunerated him with 8,438 stock options. [3] Over the next five years the price of ESSI's stock soared 1,000%. Why? Largely because the Bush administration, beginning in 2002, had awarded several hundred million dollars worth of no-bid, sole-source, gold-plated military contracts to ESSI. Hence, his stock options were worth nearly a half billion dollars when Bucky decided to cash them in on January 18, 2005..........


http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/...ofiteering.htm

NewPagan

Default Re: Bush Dynasty Of War Profiteering

The Bush family has been a part of the banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman for generations and no doubt up to all sorts of no good.

Obviously they are in quite a dither.

Oh, and BTW, all the threads are from the white supremacist website stormfront.

Here are the links in order of appearance.

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[AllosaursRus]

DUmmies usin' StormFront for "factual" arguments? Scratch a DUmmie, expose a racist! Yet we stand accused daily of the same damn thing with absolutely no evidence! How do these people stand themselves?

Never ceases to amaze me the amount of hypocrisy continually uncovered at the DUmp!

The announcement was tacit recognition that a kind of vicious cycle is at work. The aggravation caused by the lack of electricity and other basic services is certain to be blamed on the CPA and the contractors, which could result in further support for the resistance. Exactly how much the resistance has gained from the festering resentments caused by the stalled reconstruction process is difficult to say. But an increase in attacks on construction sites – more than one a day according to the Army – indicates that they are a clear target of the resistance.

Sounds about right to me. How in the hell is this "profiteering"? DUmmies expect every thing to be roses when standin' a country back on it's own two feet. They bitch about this, yet all the gubmint programs that waste far more than this are just ****in' fine!

Stimulus ring a bell, no minds?  18 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to what your messiah has flushed down the commode! Hell, he might as well as just burned a trillion bucks on the White House lawn, without a peep from you DUmb****s!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

DUmmies usin' StormFront for "factual" arguments? Scratch a DUmmie, expose a racist! Yet we stand accused daily of the same damn thing with absolutely no evidence! How do these people stand themselves?

Never ceases to amaze me the amount of hypocrisy continually uncovered at the DUmp!

No, the threads are straight from stormfront. None of those poster are from DU.

My point is: DU keeps claiming the RW is racist because because racists are RW, except national socialists believe the GWoT is fabricated to enrich corporations. White nationalists are also anti-Christian, with most of them taking on some form of neo (read: banal) paganism.

Liberalism sustains itself on lies told to the uninformed.

[franksolich]

That Smedley Butler fellow is very popular at DU. His book is cited regularly and you can even choose him as an avatar.

You know, I used to have that book, War is a Racket by Smedley Butler; I got a copy of it during the late 1980s at a bookstore in Boston.

I read it, but I'll be damned if the late general said anything memorable in it.

And you're right, Mr. Snuggle Bunny, sir; War is a Racket has been constantly mentioned on Skins's island over the years, as if it's some new and exciting book.  It was published in 1935.

The late general also charged that there was a coup plotted to oust Franklin Roosevelt in 1934.

[JohnnyReb]

WHAT? Were the Chinese commie supposed to get the contracts?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

And you're right, Mr. Snuggle Bunny, sir; War is a Racket has been constantly mentioned on Skins's island over the years, as if it's some new and exciting book.  It was published in 1935.

The more familiar one becomes with the shitstormfront type "people" the more you learn they also believe in the nationalization of key industries, healthcare for all, seizure of profits from defense contractors, nationalizing the media, freeing workers from the oppression of evil corporations, shadowy conspiracies and a virulent hatred for Christianity (many profess to be atheist or Norse-esque neo-pagans).

About the only place DU and shitstormfront disagree is civil liberties for minorities and gays.

The entire "RW = white nationalists, white nationalists = RW" meme centers on little more than the fact the person who leads the leftist political agenda is as non-white as it is thin. Then charaltans like the SPLC use their fax-based factless megaphone to amplify and legitamize the slander. However, conservative values would never survive at shitstormfront.com nor would conservative support for the GWoT.