Wanna Buy a Bridge?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42249-2003Oct3.html?referrer=emailarticle

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A19

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"And on a rough recollection, oil revenues of that country could bring in between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years. We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."

- Deputy Secretary of Defense and key Iraqi war architect Paul Wolfowitz, March 27 (from the Oct. 1 Congressional Record).

Now, would you buy a used car from that man?

Because if you are willing to buy what he and his Bush administration colleagues are selling, they have a new deal for you to swallow: $87 billion in "emergency" supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan, including $20 billion in U.S. taxpayer-financed grants to rebuild post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. But wait, you may ask, wasn't it only five months ago that Wolfowitz was saying Iraq could pay for its reconstruction?

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Are you still willing to buy what this bunch is selling? Rest assured, they have plenty of it, piled high, wide and deep, and ready to go.

And they have no shame.

They tell us with straight faces that our national security interests and the future of Iraqi freedom are riding on the U.S. taxpayer: buying pickup trucks for Iraqis at $33,000 each; purchasing 600 radios and telephones for Iraq at $6,000 a piece; spending $54 million for a comprehensive consulting technical study for the Iraqi postal system; shelling out $800 million to train 1,500 Iraqi police officers at $530,000 per; building $400 million maximum security prisons at $50,000 a bed; spending $100 million to enroll 100 Iraqi families of five in a witness protection program at $200,000 a person; buying 40 garbage trucks at $50,000 apiece; shelling out $100 million to pay for 500 experts to investigate crimes against humanity at $200,000 a person; and spending $1.5 million for museums documenting Iraqi atrocities.

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1. Hijacking of U.S. Military/Oil Industry Subsidy

This article FINALLY says what has been patently obvious to everyone with eyes to see it, ever since Bushie Boy's masters decided they wanted the oil in Iraq.

The United States Military has been hijacked by Big Oil, to invade a country, take over its natural resources, and keep them exclusively for Big Oil to plunder.

The idea the American taxpayer should PAY for all of this -- instead of Big Oil, who is going to reap the profits -- is scandalous, bordering on criminal.

Why isn't the press talking about this (present article excluded)?