Global Eye - Mother Lode

[CHIMO]

The hoary adage that "there are none so blind as those who will not see" should be carved in stone at the National Press Club in Washington. Surely there can be no better motto for the cozy clubhouse of America's media mavens, who seem preternaturally incapable of recognizing the truth -- even when it stands before them, monstrous and unavoidable, like a giant Cyclops smeared with blood.

For just as they botched the most important story of our time -- the Bush Administration's transparently deceptive campaign to launch a war of aggression against Iraq -- the clubby mavens are now missing the crowning achievement of this vast crime: the mother of all backroom deals, a cynical pact sealed by murder, unfolding before our eyes.

This blood money will further entrench the Bushist clique in unassailable power and privilege for decades to come, regardless of the bloody chaos they cause, or even the occasional loss of political office. The American power structure has been permanently altered by the war -- just as American society has been immeasurably corrupted by Bush's proud embrace of aggression, torture, lawlessness and militarism as national values.

Bush lied. He stole. He murdered. In broad daylight. And he got away with it. That's the story. But you'll never hear it at the Press Club.


http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/11/120.html

[indigobusiness]

1. Wherever your bread is buttered...

sometimes the slice lands buttered side down.

[applegrove]

2. I'd like to know more about the $8.8 Billion missing in Iraq reconstructio

I'd like to know more about the $8.8 Billion missing in Iraq reconstruction money.

[CHIMO]

4. US audit: Iraq scammed of $8.8bn

US audit says that at least $8.8 billion given to Iraqi ministries by the former occupation authority in Baghdad has not been accounted for.


The audit by the former occupation authority's own Inspector General blasts the body for "not providing adequate stewardship" of at least $8.8 billion from the Development Fund for Iraq that was given to Iraqi ministries.

The audit is to be published soon.

The development fund is made up of proceeds from Iraqi oil sales, frozen assets from foreign governments and surplus from the UN Oil for Food Programme. Its handling has already come under fire in a UN-mandated audit released last month.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C7C1F683-D3B3-4786-80AA-EBE6FF621454.htm

[susu369]

3. How depressing

"....Bush has already won the game. The war has transferred billions of dollars from the public treasuries of the United States and Iraq into the coffers of an elite clique of oilmen, arms dealers, investment firms, construction giants and political operatives associated with the Bush family."

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