This Seems Strangely Orwellian to Me
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, August 31, 2026 15:50
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6ix
Somehow I never thought of you as a Billy Joel fan...
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I know on here I must come off as a one trick pony. 
I'd like to think that in the real world I'm full of suprises though.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:BWAHAHAHAHAHA *TAKES BREATH, CLEANS SODA OFF COMPUTER SCREEN*
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Bush is responding to a threat which others ignored for too long. One of the few good things he HAS done.
BWBBBBAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Uh..heh heh , you 're killin' me AU!! heh
Wiping the tears of laughter Chrisisall
al Qaeda thanks you for your support.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Bush's response was and continues to be so dysfunctional as to be counterproductive. So we were attacked by terrorists from Saudi Arabia and we attack IRAQ? Meanwhile, back in oblivious-land, first responders STILL don't have a common frequency for multi-agency response.
Bush is responding to a threat which others ignored for too long. One of the few good things he HAS done.
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We didn't attack Iraq in response to the 9/11 attacks, and you KNOW that. Unless you're struck w/ amnesia, we invaded Afghanistan a full YEAR before Iraq, and for completely different reasons. Damn, I get so fucking tired of having to repeat myself over this, so I think I'll pass this time.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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We should have struk while the iron was hot Auraptor and destroyed Mecca right after 9/11 if we wanted to send a message to NEVER fuck with us again, but we didn't. We never won anything in Afghanistan. We just used it as a means of segueing into invading Iraq for their oil and to make the big H a helluva lot of money.
Remember man. I f
ing hate Demoncrats too.
Vote Ron Paul "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We should have struk while the iron was hot Auraptor and destroyed Mecca right after 9/11 if we wanted to send a message to NEVER fuck with us again, but we didn't. We never won anything in Afghanistan. We just used it as a means of segueing into invading Iraq for their oil and to make the big H a helluva lot of money.
Remember man. I f
Getting Iraq's oil and making money for 'big H' ? Those are cute talking points, buT I can't, won't accept that people actually believe that stuff. This goes well beyond politics, imo. Dems, GOP, it doesn't matter ( or shouldn't ) Alas, some don't live in that world.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Quote:You're right Auraptor, it goes well beyond politics. Why, Dems, Repubs, Libertarians and even Independents are doing it. It's called common sense.
This goes well beyond politics, imo. Dems, GOP, it doesn't matter ( or shouldn't )
And you're right, we didn't invade Iraq "because of" 9-11 and al Qaida. But it sure made a helluva good excuse.
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Always look upstream.
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Well they do believe it. So get over it. "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Bush's response was and continues to be so dysfunctional as to be counterproductive. So we were attacked by terrorists from Saudi Arabia and we attack IRAQ? Meanwhile, back in oblivious-land, first responders STILL don't have a common frequency for multi-agency response.
Bush is responding to a threat which others ignored for too long. One of the few good things he HAS done.
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We didn't attack Iraq in response to the 9/11 attacks, and you KNOW that. Unless you're struck w/ amnesia, we invaded Afghanistan a full YEAR before Iraq, and for completely different reasons. Damn, I get so fucking tired of having to repeat myself over this, so I think I'll pass this time.
Exactly, we didn't go into Iraq over 9/11. So, why did we?
I won't argue that going into Afghanistan was justified, I believe it was. However, to state that going into Iraq was part of the war on terror? Certainly wasn't due to an al-Qaeda connection... Keep in mind your initial statement was pretty vague, "Bush is finally doing something"... I too assumed you meant Iraq. Now, if you -just- meant Afganistan, it would help if you clarified that.
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Fletch, yep it's nice to be "able" to audit "our" contractors, if we would choose to do so.
How the Repugs choose to audit:
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Mr Bowen's audit office began operations in March 2004 and is currently conducting 78 investigations, of which 23 have been referred to the US Department of Justice. There have so far been four convictions. His office, which was nearly closed down last year by Republicans, is now due to carry on its oversight work through 2008.
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Then the 61-year-old Greenhouse lost her $137,000-a-year post after questioning the plump contracts awarded to Halliburton in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12718
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In a second public letter yesterday, Mr Waxman accused Bush administration officials of deliberately withholding information on overcharges by Halliburton from UN auditors - at its behest. Some $1.6bn of the $2.5bn Halliburton contract was funded from Iraqi oil revenues overseen by the UN.
"The evidence suggests that the US used Iraqi oil proceeds to overpay Halliburton and then sought to hide the evidence of these overcharges from the international auditors," the letter says.
And this si what they are hiding from us: This (from your cited article) is cycling the funds to a known US contractor win exchange for being able to skim.
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One case involved a payment by the US State Department of $43.8m to a contractor, DynCorp International, for a residential camp for police trainers outside the Adnan Palace grounds in Baghdad. The camp has never been used.
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In the most startling transaction, it {Halliburton} charged the Pentagon $27.5m to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel to Iraq from Kuwait - 335 times the actual cost of the liquified petroleum gas, a charge the Pentagon auditors said was "illogical".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1438694,00.html
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