Okay, Bush apologists, I can't wait to hear you spin this one

[docwebster]

I quote the wise and holy Orcinus: "I guess it only makes sense, in that Bushworld kinda way, that when the government starts building mass detention centers that Halliburton would get the contract: A Houston-based construction firm with ties to the White House has been awarded an open-ended contract to build immigration detention centers that could total $385 million, a move some critics called questionable.

The contract calls for KBR, a subsidiary of oil engineering and construction giant Halliburton, to build temporary detention facilities in the event of an "immigration emergency," according to U.S. officials."

I mean, can we stop bullshitting and just call this for the rank cronyism and outright corruption it is? Even if you can't manage, look me square in the eye and justify building mass detention centers.

(Snagged from sinboy)

Comments

[lubedpumpkin.livejournal.com]

What in the world is the Press Telegram?

[hanksterz.livejournal.com]

Dude, what are you complaining about? This is only logical if there is to be the almightily sought One New World Regime of Halliburton. Either you're a Halliburtonian, or you're jailed!

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

So, either this is a pork barrel project that someone creamed up to cover-up kickbacks to haliburton...

or those 'detention centers' with awefully large furnaces aren't going to be used to deal with an immigration emergency. Because I note, the completion dates for them are all in 2007/2008...

[midnightmadness.livejournal.com]

I guess we're just not going to be truly happy until we start just actually speaking German and Bush grows the little square mustache...

[bassbone.livejournal.com]

Mass detention centers make sense to me. Keeps 'em in one place 'til they can be shipped back.

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

I've been sitting here for the past five minutes trying to come up with something in reply to that stunning bit of logic that wouldn't sound horrifically vile, but I can't so I'll just ask how you seem to have no trouble whatsoever with Kellog, Brown and Root getting the contract yet again?

[bassbone.livejournal.com]

I don't care who gets it, really.

I don't care if people immigrate to this conntry. I would rather they do it legally, however. If they're sneaking over the border in the trailer of an 18-wheeler they're breaking the law and deserve to go to jail.

I don't want them putting themselves in that kind of danger, however. Like I said, I'd rather they come here legally.

Just to stir the pot a little...

[trochai.livejournal.com]

I'm no Bush apologist. But I do believe in equal time for pointing out others who've done similar things. Cronyism is not something Bush created. It's not something new. I would suspect that, if one took the time, one could find a plethora of facts that back up the phrase "All Presidents have engaged in this type of behavior." I am not saying that excuses anything, but if you're willing to complain about Bush doing it, you need to be willing to complain when someone YOU want elected does it. Possibly with even more fervor than with the person you voted against.

I don't like the Privacy related garbage that this Administration has done, and I get vocal about it. However, I also don't agree with ANY candidates on a lot of issues, so I tend to pick the least offensive one for me, and when they do something I dislike, I am extremely vocal, because I am then not effectively being represented.

Re: Just to stir the pot a little...

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Bush and company are the ones in power, they're the ones crying "Holy holy are we", they're the ones who staged an unjustified war, they're the ones who are illegally wiretapping, they're the ones taking cronyism and corruption to new depths and they're the ones who need to be frogmarched out of the capitol in handcuffs. I didn't vote for the bastard.

Re: Just to stir the pot a little...

[trochai.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I understand your point of view. I may not agree with all points of it, but I do understand. The problem with politics these days are people are always willing to savagely attack those on the other side of any debate. In fact, it's not debate anymore. It's become a grade school argument on both sides of the issue:

"You're 'evil'!"
"am not!"
"are too!"
"am not!"
"are too!"
etc.

Only once both*** sides are willing to respectfully look at the others point of view can we progress on to being the proper government that can manage to "Get Stuff Done."