"I just came back from Iraq, it's a disaster......."

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

but, but, but, WE "Liberated" them Arabs.

Where are the rose petals ?

And haven't the neo-cons been on TV EVERY day this week telling
us Amerikans over & over how 'wonderful Iraq is' ?


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Quotes

"I just came back from Iraq, it's a disaster, people don't have electricity, water, garbage collection, sewage collection, jobs. They're angry, they're bitter. They say the United States money is not getting down to the people, it's going to Halliburton, it's going to Bechtel. Halliburton is making $2 billion,
Bechtel is making $1 billion. And they haven't been able to turn on the electricity or turn back the water supply. They can't do the job, plus they're wasting massive amounts of money. Even the governing
council that was hand-appointed by the U.S. is saying that the money being spent is being wasted because it's U.S. companies in charge instead of Iraqis."
--Medea Benjamin, of Global Exchange, PBS Newshour interview
September 22, 2003

full PBS NewsHour transcript -
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/funding_9-22.html

[TNOE]

1. Kick

Because this is important.

:kick:

[monkeyboy]

2. Rose "Pedals"?

That's "Petals". (Just a little anal-retentive spelling bee champ of a kick) ;-)

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

3. thats how we speel in bubbaland

thats how its sounds dont it ?

cuz we speelk 'at waaay dooowm 'her.

:)

[revcarol]

4. I was just going to post, asking if any soldiers on leave

(Speaking anonymously, going out of town, hiding their faces with scarves and muffling their voices) had spoken to any reporters about what things were REALLY like in Iraq.

Any other news reports?

[Yupster]

5. Our local paper

had a story today about electricity workers knocking down power towers so they wouldn't have to share their power with Baghdad. And these are supposed to be the guys fixing the system.

I hope there's a lot of memos labeled "exit strategy" in Bush's in-box right now.