In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Now here's a great deck of cards for ya!
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Another edition of the poorly named, but well written The Daily Enron is up.
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Okay So Maybe We Exaggerated
W A S H I N G T O N, April 25 — To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war — a global show of American power and democracy.
Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans.
"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."
Okay. Now let's think about this for a second. How do we best show American democracy. I know, have a President appointed by supreme court justices (some of whom were appointed by his Dad), act against the well of the people (which initially and strongly showed support only with UN approval), and mislead its people about the reasons why?
How do we best show our strength? Fight a much smaller country after forcing itself to disarm for six months leading up to the war? I thought the strong were supposed to be so assured of their strength that they helped the weak? Or was that a Superman comic book?
And all this was to fight terrorism. But I thought the first Gulf War was the reason why so many terrorist cells grew in the nineties. Or was that because Bill Clinton was wicked?
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The Iraqi Deck of Cards. Here’s a deck that is truly sad. Thanks Jer for the link.
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How about a little G.O.P. hypocrisy to start the day? No, it doesn't have anything to do with tax cuts or undermining the Constitution or global hegemony or World War 3, but it affects millions of loving people and people in love -- and is just another bald-faced example of why this century sucks. (Make that "Not Allowed to Suck.")- Thursday, April 24, 2003 -
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Moral Leadership
Bush, and general Clinton haters point out that the real damage, the horrible and lasting damage that Clinton did to American was weaken our national moral fiber (note, this type of fiber doesn't help you poop... but it does help you stop saying things like "poop"). Well, as far as I can tell the only victims of this horrible moral weakening were Republican CEOs and their accountants. Let’s look at some statistics.
Teen Pregnancy:
Looking at the national picture, the birth rate for U.S. teenagers declined steadily throughout the 1990s, falling from 62.1 births per 1,000 teenagers 15-19 years in 1991 to 48.5 in 2000, a reduction of 22 percent. Rates for teenage subgroups fell as well. The rate for young teenagers 15-17 years dropped 29 percent, from 38.7 to 27.4 per 1,000, and the rate for older teenagers 18-19 years declined 16 percent , from 94.4 to 79.2 per 1,000. The rates for ages 15-19 years and 15-17 years in 2000 were at all-time lows.
Good news about teen pregnancy rates though, Bush is really pushing abstinence-only sex education, which has really worked for Lubbock, TX, where: The teen pregnancy rate in Lubbock County remains the highest in the state and is almost 10 percentage points greater than the statewide rate for Texas. Lubbock County also has the highest teen rate for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Texas.
Abortion
The abortion ratio for 1999 is the lowest reported since 1975. The ratio was 256 legal induced abortions per 1,000 live births, compared to 264 in 1998.... From 1990 through 1997, the number of legal induced abortions gradually declined. In 1998 and in 1999, the number of abortions continued to decrease when comparing the same 48 reporting areas. In 1998, as in previous years, deaths related to legal induced abortions occurred rarely.
Crime:
The great crime drop of the booming '90s has finally bottomed out.
For the first time in a decade, the FBI is reporting the number of thefts, assaults, murders, and rapes is up across the United States in all regions of the country except the Northeast.
Okay, okay, so Clinton did okay with that, so, um, the problem with Clinton and Democrats in general is their lack of fiscal responsibility.
Fiscal Leadership
Deficit
Measured against the size of the economy, a $350 billion deficit would still be smaller than the deficits of the late 1980s and early 1990s. But in sheer dollar terms, it would easily eclipse the $290 billion record set in 1992, the last year of George H.W. Bush's administration. It also would be a steep fall from the record $236 billion surplus of 2000.
Moreover, the deficit's rapid rise is coming just a few years before the baby-boom generation begins to make itself felt on federal spending,
And here’s a fun graphic:
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Not that I have any problems with bad films, rated R films, or full frontal nudity in films. I do find it funny that Bush hates these immoral films Hollywood pushes on America. But he doesn't hate the money he makes from them.
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Those Wacky Republicans! (yes I know that is just one republican being an idiot, and that it has nothing to do with the rest, but it does bring up that fact that people the say one thing over and over about someone else usually have the issue themselves. i.e. many (if not most) homophobic men are gay and their hate is really at themselves. Do you think all those republicans saying "the left hates America" again and again are saying it so loudly because, they, not the left, do hate America? (yes and some on the left do hate America and that is unfortunate, oh and thanks to This Modern World for the link).
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The next time New York City takes it on the chin, we shouldn't let the pesky Constitution get in the way of withholding crucial federal support.- Wednesday, April 23, 2003 -
"Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution says, `The United States . . . shall protect each of [the states] against Invasion.' Unlike other provisions that merely authorize governmental action, this article imposes on Washington an obligation to defend states -- and their cities -- from foreign attacks. If New York City needs Operation Atlas, the federal government must pay for the program."
"Significantly, Article IV requires the government to protect "each" of the states from invasion. This means Washington must do so in a way that meets each state's individual needs, and that a particular state must not be left vulnerable just because taxpayers in other states prefer not to contribute additional money needed for its protection. In the war on terrorism, it takes more to defend New York than to defend Nebraska. New York City is a unique terrorist target: a coastal metropolitan center, a national entry point, the financial and cultural capital, the home to the United Nations and a worldwide American symbol. The federal government must take into account the city's special security requirements."
Sure it does; when pigs fly. After all, this is America, not some constitutional democracy.
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By now you've all read about the interview with Senator Santorum and his interesting homosexuality comments. But go here to read some of the unedited version. That AP interviewer is hilarious.
SANTORUM:.... That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality _
AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.
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Let me tell you a story. I once was talking about how the danger with the Patriot Act was that it could be used for purposes far beyond searching for terrorists (such as surpressing desent). The person I was talking with assured me it would be okay as Ashcroft was a Christian, and everything would be okay. Folks, here's another guy (Town Recluse Charged in Chilling Case of Sexual Captivity) who is a Christian. That doesn't mean a damn thing in whether you can trust someone or not. If you want to judge a person, you have to know the person. Knowing their religion tells you nothing. Jerry Falwell: Christian, Bush: Christian, Nixon: Christian (and a Quaker at that... which is strange when you realize that Quaker's never lie and are pacifists), but then think of all those who work with the misfortunate, help others, everything we hear that Christians do. They're Christian too. But it is a label as much as it is a faith, and thus it is meaningless when used as a way to judge a person. From the article:
"I can't imagine being locked in there for hours, let alone for months or years," said Sheriff Walsh, who examined them last week. Graffiti covered the walls, he said, and the only comforts were a strip of foam for sleeping, a television set and a Bible.
Those who know him, even slightly, describe Mr. Jamelske as an odd and opinionated man with strong views on politics, religion and the environment. According to voter records, Mr. Jamelske, a registered Republican, rarely missed an election, and neighbors said he was an avid gardener who used plastic bottle caps as mulch.
Sounds like he was an environmentalist too. I tell you, those tree huggers... they're all sickos.
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At any time in America's history, when times seem dark, heroes arrise. Like the many towns and cities (and maybe the entire state of Hawaii) that fight against the most cynically named law of America's History: The Patriot Act.
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A friend just sent me a link to this, it's a great article.- Tuesday, April 22, 2003 -
The Most Dangerous President Ever
How and why George W. Bush undermines American security
But politics deals in comparatives, not absolutes. And when I compare Reagan with his ideological heir currently occupying the White House, I'll take the Gipper, hands down. George W. Bush is much the meaner president (and man). He is far more factional than Reagan was. And he is incomparably more dangerous than Reagan or any other president in this nation's history.
....Bush and his political consigliere, Karl Rove, place great stress on rewarding the Republican right-wing base. As they see it, George Bush Senior was defeated in 1992 because he broke his pledge never to raise taxes, thereby alienating the conservative activists without whom a Republican cannot win. In fact, the senior Bush's failure to alleviate, or even address, a serious recession is what cost him the election, but Rove is convinced that by governing on the right, providing military security for all and voicing a threadbare rhetoric of compassion, his boy George can win re-election.
And so, by strategy, inclination and conviction, George W. Bush has been pursuing a reckless, even ridiculous, but always right-wing agenda -- shredding a global-security structure at a time requiring unprecedented international integration, shredding a domestic safety net at a time when the private sector provides radically less security than it did a generation ago. No American president has ever played quite so fast and loose with the well-being of the American people.
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Pop quiz: Who said the following?
"Government has a final responsibility for the well-being of its citizenship. If private cooperative endeavor fails to provide work for willing hands and relief for the unfortunate, those suffering hardship from no fault of their own have a right to call upon the Government for aid; and a government worthy of its name must make fitting response."
a) Herbert Hoover
b) George Herbert Walker Bush
c) George Walker Bush
d) Walker, Texas Ranger
e) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
f) Snoopy
(Hint: He could talk the talk ...)
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another one from Buzzflash:
Sacrifice? (requires registration):
[Cheney] made $10 million in salary and bonuses [from Halliburton], plus something like $30 million in stock options. That’s for five years of work. You’d think Cheney could afford to share a little of that wealth with the government he’s helping to lead, especially to avoid the ethically questionable situation of remaining on the payroll of a company that gets billions of dollars in government contracts.
We’ve come a long, long way from “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
Then again, under Cheney’s leadership, Halliburton found plenty of “tax advantages.” The number of Halliburton subsidiaries establishing offshore headquarters to evade federal taxes increased from nine to 44 during Cheney’s five years.
The company went from paying $302 million in taxes in 1998 to receiving an $85 million rebate in 1999. Meanwhile, much of the income Halliburton didn’t pay taxes on was coming from billions of dollars in government contracts Cheney helped secure.
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Legislation to outlaw this practice, called the “Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act,” is going nowhere, perhaps because so many of these companies use a small fraction of their ill-gotten gains to shower money on Congress.
Republicans in Congress even derailed an attempt to simply prevent corporate “ex-patriots” from winning homeland security contracts.
Tax cheats shouldn’t get government contracts. And a person more interested in “tax advantages” than in honorably, honestly and ethically serving his country shouldn’t be vice president of the United States.
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BRUUUUUCE!
The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom. Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create freedom in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home.
I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support.
Bruce Springsteen
thanks to buzzflash for the link.
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Ready.gov cost the tax payers over 1.5 million dollars, but don't think it is a silly panic inducing waste. No think of it as a supply of humor. I do.
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Election 2004, anybody? Pick the October surprise:
a) War in Iran, where WMD are actually deployed (by us)
b) "Not" war with (fill in Middle East country of choice), courtesy of Karl Rove, resident genius, showing the Benevolent Hand of Bush (until after the election, of course. Oil ports and pipelines a must)
c) War with N. Korea
d) "Not" war with N. Korea (sparing civilization, courtesy of Karl Rove, supergenius. We have him to thank for our lives)
e) War or not war with Syria (doesn't matter which)
f) Wars on every front (courtesy of D. Rumsfeld, resident madman)
g) Great Depression 2 (solution: war)
h) India nukes Pakistan, WMD unleashed in all parts of the world, US economy fails, SARS kills more people than the 1918 flu, WW3 officially declared, Democrats favor tax cuts
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Oh, I forgot, yesterday was Monday. Here's the link to last week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots.
Of interest (read the Armageddon piece below...if you want) is the entry for number 2:
Pat Robertson: But if you think that a mad hunt for so-far-invisible weapons and pathetic fat evil guys with penchants for shooting rifles in the air while wearing trilbies is a bad reason for invading various Arab countries, then Pat Robertson has another persuasive argument for you. It seems that Pat has discovered a "cryptic" bible verse in the Book of Isaiah: "In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day, Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. The Lord Almighty will bless them saying, 'Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.'" So what are we to make of all this to-ing and fro-ing of Egyptians and Assyrians? Well according to Pat, who was also kind enough to provide maps, it means that we need to bomb the pants off of Syria. And why is that? Because, silly, Pat reckons that it'll bring us closer to the "end days." Oh, well - that's... great! Uh...?
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The Daily Enron is no longer daily, but does have good weekly reviews of all thing's Bush. Here is the most recent one.
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Armageddon
Remember a few summers back when Armageddon just meant a bad movie? Now when people (and people with influence with those in power, like Mr. Graham (below)) mention Armageddon they are harking back to some anti-Roman empire rambling in the bible (Revelation). But they aren't talking about that in historical context, they are talking about it as something that will happen soon. Something to be promoted. When you hear about Armegeddon, its sounds so terrible, why would anyone want it. Well if you are a "true believer" you get to sit it out. And Graham and all are so filled with compassion for their fellow human beings they just feel they should warn you. I won't mention that "people in the know" have thought Armageddon was just around the corner pretty much every decade for the past two thousand years. Here's a typical site anxiously awaiting The Rapture.
As scholars like Dwight Pentecost, a Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary, and John F. Walvoord, author of “Armageddon, Oil, and Middle East”, interpret the Scriptures, here is what could be coming next:
1) First, a ten-nation peace keeping force would be formed to protect Israel and police oil.
2) Then a dictator who would be popularly known as the Antichrist would overrun this alliance. In time, he would impose a seven-year covenant on Israel, but would break it half way through, setting off the great battle and plague from God.
3) In the next three and a half years, three-quarters of the world's population would be wiped out, until finally Christ would physically return to earth in Jerusalem to punish the sinful, and reign in peace for the next one thousand years. Before the seven years of Tribulation, however, in an episode called the "Rapture", millions of Christians would be delivered to heaven to sit out the passing of these horrible events."
Okay, my opinion is this is a load of hooey. I'm really not into a God that sends you to hell simply because you did believe in him using a specific name "Christ." Really that seems pretty damn petty for an omnipotent being. But hey, who's to judge or even know God (I've never meant an omnipotent beign, so they may be pretty petty). That being said, if this is all true, doesn't it seem pretty likely the George W. Bush is the anti-christ that this is referring to? Or maybe we should all just let God be, believe him or not believe him, and try to move on, and make Earth a nice place to live and not just visit.
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NYTimes Columnists are on a roll.
Krugman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Republican politicians are obviously under instructions to push that job number [1.4 million]. On the Sunday talk shows some of them said "1.4 million jobs" so often that it sounded like an embarrassing nervous tic.
Of course, there's no reason to take that number seriously. Basically, the job-creation estimate came from the same place where Joseph McCarthy learned that there were 57 card-carrying Communists in the State Department. Still, let's pretend that the Bush administration really thinks that its $726 billion tax-cut plan will create 1.4 million jobs. At what price would those jobs be created?
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Not that the budget cost is minor. The average American worker earns only about $40,000 per year; why does the administration, even on its own estimates, need to offer $500,000 in tax cuts for each job created? If it's all about jobs, wouldn't it be far cheaper just to have the government hire people? Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration put the unemployed to work doing all kinds of useful things; why not do something similar now? (Hint: this would be a good time to do something serious, finally, about port security.)
Dowd: A Tale of Two Fridays
Franklin Graham, the Christian evangelist who has branded Islam a "very wicked and evil" religion, was the honored speaker at the Pentagon's Good Friday service.
After Kenna West, a Christian singer, crooned, "There is one God and one faith," Mr. Graham told an auditorium of soldiers in camouflage, civilian staffers and his son, a West Point cadet: "There's no other way to God except through Christ. . . . Jesus Christ is alive because he is risen, and friends, he's coming back, and I believe he's coming back soon."
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Muslims suspicious that America is on a crusade against Islam were inflamed to learn that Mr. Graham is taking his missionary act to Iraq. They are still scorched by his remarks to NBC News after 9/11: "It wasn't Methodists flying into those buildings, and it wasn't Lutherans. It was an attack on this country by people of the Islamic faith."
He wrote in his last book that Christianity and Islam were "as different as lightness and darkness," and recently told the Sunday Times of London, "The true God is the God of the Bible, not the Koran."
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From the federalist, Oct 1787:- Monday, April 21, 2003 -
"It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved
to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to
decide the important question, whether societies of men are really
capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and
choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their
political constitutions, on accident and force. If there be any truth
in the remark, the crisis, at which we are arrived, may with
propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be
made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this
view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind."
Source
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Now remember, Bush and his administration did not want to go to war. They wanted inspections to work, they did. That is why they pushed for inspections in the first place, because they wanted peace, not because they wanted an excuse for war.
"I don't think we'll discover anything, myself," Rumsfeld said at a town hall-style meeting with Pentagon employees.
"I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just run around looking everywhere, hoping you find something."
Oh Darn It! Rummy's off script again. Now how are we going to explain that we never thought inspections would work, if we are saying we tried to let them work. Oh, what are we worried about, no one notices anything.
Maybe Rove isn't an evil genius, maybe we are all such primatives that his horribly lame manipulations look like magic to us.
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Remember Jim Baker? Remember him warning the country that we'd spiral out of control if we dared question Dubya's legitimacy in those fun days after the 2000 election. The guy needed a good massage... he was a little tense. Anyway, his law firm is back, making big bucks, defending the Saudis from the familes of the 9/11 victims. Ahh, what a brave man to work to defend the um... the rich folks.
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About war profiteering and what we haven't heard, Bob Herbert tells us that someplace, somewhere, George Shultz is smiling. So far as I know, it still isn't illegal for a limited partnership like the Carlyle Group that invests solely in defense industries to influence U.S. policy behind closed doors, where our so-called energy policy is being planned by private corporations like Bechtel and Enron (remember the California energy crisis? They were only getting started). How businesses can now declare war on foreign countries. Why don't we just send our taxes straight into Dick Cheney's bank account and spare everybody the useless cruelty and suffering? After all, we're footing the bill. Whoever would've thought that Americans would end up actually paying corporations to make even more obscene amounts of money while we starve our state governments and cut essential services, including the benefits of soldiers fighting and dying for defense contractors and Texas oilmen? To say nothing of letting our economy wither and our cities die? To say nothing of actual defense? And you still think there's going to be an election in 2004? Sure there will ... can't wait to "vote."
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Bush Lies (tm)
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Ahh yes... remember the fall of 2001... when Anthrax was all the rage? Funny how we've forgotten all about it. The first victim's family hasn't, and they're suing the government. Why not. It probably was the governmen's anthrax. Thanks to Buzzflash for the link.
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Awww. Our banner (see the very bottom of the page) was rejected from the banner exchange program. I'll have to submit a new one. Now do you think it was politics? Or was it the work Suck? (hmm... that's our url, that could be a problem).
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I've been seeing this ad in Yahoo and other sites, and here I am showing it again for free:
I don't know about you, but with people in the Bush administration talking about how George was choosen by God to lead at this time, and with secretative Christian groups subsidizing housing for members of congress (see below), I'm beginning to feel that American isn't a Christian nation, its a religious nut nation. Sorry, God did not place George here at this time, the Supreme Court did. God did not plan the Iraqi invasion, Rumsfeld and Perle did. Is this the end of times? No, just a pretty scary turn of events, but like other dark times, this too shall pass. Will George Bush get to heaven? How the hell would I know?
Or do you think I'm over-reacting to an ad that is really just trying to generate book sales.
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Okay this could be scary: Six members of Congress live in a million-dollar Capitol Hill townhouse that is subsidized by a secretive religious organization. But then you realize that rent is expensive in DC and that these congressman are paying only $600 a month. But then you start to wonder how you'd feel about this if it was a Scientology group, rather than a "Christian" group.
The lawmakers, all of whom are Christian, pay low rent to live in the stately red brick, three-story house on C Street, two blocks from the Capitol. It is maintained by a group, alternately known as the ''Fellowship'' and the ''Foundation,'' that brings together world leaders and elected officials through religion.
The Fellowship is host of receptions, luncheons and prayer meetings on the first two floors of the house, which is registered with the IRS as a church. The six lawmakers — U.S. Reps. Zach Wamp, R-Chattanooga; Bart Stupak, D-Mich.; Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; and Mike Doyle, D-Pa.; and U.S. Sens. John Ensign, R-Nev.; and Sam Brownback, R-Kan. — live in private rooms upstairs.
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If you aren't sure who Bechtel is, here is a little primer (also from Michael)
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U.S. Gives Bechtel a Major Contract in Rebuilding Iraq
The Bush administration awarded the Bechtel Group of San Francisco the first major contract today in a vast reconstruction plan for Iraq that assigns no position of authority to the United Nations or Europe
And you thought Michael was being cynical.
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