The more I read about BushCo, the more I realize how CROOKED they are...

[FormerRepublican]

What I still don't understand is why they were so desperate to invade Iraq that they went to such extraordinary lengths to do it. They were already making money off sanctions-busting. There's dirt out there we haven't uncovered yet that explains it all. Keep digging, folks.

This article was pretty revealing:

http://www.bahamasdailynews.com/node/2190

[tinrobot]

1. Halliburton profits up 300%

...or something like that, I forget the exact figure.

Is that reason enough?

[shraby]

2. Google PNAC and it will explain a lot to you.

[Kahuna]

3. Greedy, dirty bastards. That's all it is. As Randi Rhodes keep saying..

it's about the green and gold. Period. It's a racquet. These guys belong under the jail. They are disgraceful. We've got to get the message out. People are starting to wake up. We have got three years to make them realize what the republican party is doing not only to our country. But to the world.

[FormerRepublican]

4. Here's an old DU thread that also goes pretty in-depth on these issues.

WHY does this stuff fall between the cracks when it's so friggin' damning?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=157573

You would think that people this freaking crooked would be exposed and ridiculed, when the exact opposite seems to occur. What's up with that? And how the heck has BushCo gotten such control over the media that they don't even whisper about these issues?

[JDPriestly]

5. I couldn't read the article.

It was all crammed together. My eyes just aren't that great. Is there a version that is easier to read somewhere?

[FormerRepublican]

7. Here's another link...

...that covers the same ground that is more readable:

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052105Madsen/052105madsen.html

[shance]

6. I think we have a system that needs a serious overhaul.

A system that values truth and learning above anything else.

We have somehow gotten to a place where America's definition of success revolves primarily around greed, wealth and consumption of material things and I believe that is what is destroying our country.

I think we have to begin to start confronting the myths that anyone can be as successful as Bill Gates or whatever myths that we pump into children, and replace them with other more principled definitions of success.

It seems capitalism has become a sort of monster that has begun eating itself and with it, it's eating us.

Just some thoughts**

[Kahuna]

9. So true...

<<We have somehow gotten to a place where America's definition of success revolves primarily around greed, wealth and consumption of material things and I believe that is what is destroying our country.>>

And yet, the majority of Americans consider themselves Christians. :crazy: These folks have obviously never read their Bibles.

[Al-CIAda]

8. PNAC, Learn it, know it, comprehend it.

Video-
imMEDIAte Pictures - Hijacking Catastrophe - 9/11, fear and the selling of American Empire

This documentary examines how the neo-conservatives used 9/11 to put their pre-planned agenda into action. It covers the two-decade struggle by the neo-fascists to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the cold war, and to expand American power globally by means of force

Realplayer stream-

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6895.htm

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Greg Palast – BBC Newsnight and the Guardian newspaper
Alex Jones and Sacred Cow Productions interview Greg Palast. They discuss civil liberties in the US, the Bush crime family, the Project for the New American Century, Iraq and Oil
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Simon Robson - What Barry Say's
An animation constructed around a monologue by Barry McNamara, criticizing US foreign policy and the Project for the New American Century
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BBC News 'Hardtalk'  – Iraq: Scott Ritter
An interview with Scott Ritter, discussing the latest ISG report on WMD in Iraq
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http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/video_iraqwar.htm


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Maps & Charts
Central Asian oil & gas pipeline infrastructure and natural resources
On this page are maps showing how natural resources play a part in the ‘war on terrorism’
also, charts showing connections between Bush and bin Laden and the media monopoly

http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/maps%20&%20charts.htm

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Channel 4 News - Michael Meacher interview
Former UK govt minister Michael Meacher was interviewed by Channel 4 about his article published in the Guardian, entitled 'This war on terrorism is bogus'
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INN World Report- Meacher Interview
Former British government minister Michael Meacher discusses the "bogus war on terrorism"
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ABC News, Nightline - Dividends from the war on terrorism
News item about the connections between the Bush administration, Caspian oil and the Taliban
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http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/video_september11.htm

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[FloridaPat]

10. Bush 1 was an employee & investor of the Carlyle Group - the #11

defense contractor. He quit before the election campaign got heated up, but it's impossible to find out if he's still invested in it. So here is a direct link to defense money and the * family.

Now, should these clowns get a hold of 90% of the world's oil and give them to the US oil companies, how grateful do you think the oil companies will be to * and the repub party. Chaney worked for Halliburton for 5 years I think and is getting $1 million a year. I think he still has all those stock options he was suppose to get rid of. And once peak oil hits, how much money and control of the world do you think the oil barons will have? They will be able to control the lives of entire continents.

[wli]

11. they don't need the US army anymore, they have Blackwater et al n/t