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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 09:17 PM
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Meet Uncle Sugar of the Crime Family Bush
Uncle Sugar

For generations, Bush and his ilk have used bloodshed to turn public policy into private gain.

By Chris Floyd
http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2004/02/27/120.html
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William Bush is a director of Engineered Support Systems Inc., a supplier of high-tech military goods to -- well, to the highest bidder. Just last year they sold $13 million worth of advanced radar gear to upgrade communist China's fleet of fighter jets -- you know, the kind that force down U.S. spy planes with such aplomb. This is just par for the family course, however; William's brother, Prescott Jr., is head of the America-China Chamber of Commerce, while Pretzel's brother Neil is in bed with the son of former communist chieftain Jiang Zemin.

But helping arm a dictatorial regime that tyrannizes its own people, invades its neighbors and actually possesses large stockpiles of WMD is just a sideline for Uncle Bill. (Although, again, it's a family tradition -- after all, it's what Papa George did for years with his special little friend, Saddam.) Mostly, Bill's ESSI does boffo box office with nephew Georgie's Pentagon and that new family investment opportunity, the Department of Homeland Security. And this is where those phantom Iraqi WMDs -- so maniacally hyped by Junior -- come in, investigator Margie Burns reports in the Prince George's Journal.

Among its many wares for the "warfighter" (the firm follows current Pentagon usage in replacing the ancient and honorable name of "soldier" with this nerdy adolescent jargon), ESSI markets a "Chemical Biological Protected Shelter System" unit -- a mobile shed that can provide a non-contaminated area for command centers or field hospitals during a WMD attack. In the very first week of George's war, with the television generals warning every hour of impending bioterror doom hurtling toward the troops, Uncle Bill's boys raked in $19 million for a shipment of CBP units, an ESSI press release reports. This was on top of $44 million worth of the anti-WMD units ordered during Pretzel's panic-mongering before the war.

Now what would have happened to Uncle Bill's bottom line if George had told the truth?
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 09:37 PM
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1. Warfighter?
WTF? :wtf: Is this what peak oil is going to do to us? Because we can plunder other nations, it's our destiny. Our infrastructure and physical assets force the outcome. The Neocons are using another flavor of Marxism. George Soros talked about this on C-Span. Because we are miltitarily awesome and control most markets, we believe it's our destiny to control, especially when backed up with a huge ad campaign.
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