Make with the head stabby!

[docwebster]

Apparently, reconstructing Iraq isn't about who can do the job best, it's about who did what we told them to do when we told them to do it. Got it.

Please don't spew any drivel about "But they didn't send troops". On this, I frankly don't give a hairy rat's ass. Save the name calling and high handed arrogance ("Old Europe". Right. This from a man who looks like he's been pickled ever since then.) for "civilized" discourse. We should be concentrating on what's best for the Iraqi people, not some obscurantist schweinerei about who sent troops.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

But EVERYTHING's about profit and quid pro quo... right?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Apparently. *spit*

[duluoz.livejournal.com]

Come on, the system works... It's not like Haliburton has been ripping off American tax payers (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=4&u=/ap/20031211/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/halliburton_probe).

Oh, wait.

Oops.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we run everything, reject the leaders the Iraqi people sent, and control who is allowed to work inside the country.. but we didn't conquer them! Oh, no.. that would have been imperialistic.

Waiting for Haliburton to change it's name to the American Persian East Company and start raising regiments of sepoy troops local security forces any minute now.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Fun fact:

Remember that photo-op of Shrub serving a T'giving turkey to the troops? That bird wasn't real; it was a showpiece. That's funny enough, but it gets better: the idea of a showpiece turkey on armed forces chowlines is, apparently, fairly common in the US forces; the soldiers are served from standard steam tables. Fair enough. The making of these turkeys is usually contracted out (because apparently army cooks can't make one themselves? ahh, gubmint efficiency). Who got the contract for the ones in Iraq? KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root, ne?). Who is KBR a subsidiary of? Halliburton.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I can just see Bush scratching his head and wondering "What do the Iraqi people have to do with any of this?"