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Offline crockett

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I guess this is where the missing weapons went..
« on: August 26, 2007, 12:11:12 AM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/

Pretty sad that this is the govt our soldiers are dieing for..
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2007, 12:25:11 AM »
rampant corruption without checks is the difference between a first world power and a third world shiphole.
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2007, 12:47:35 AM »
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rampant corruption without checks is the difference between a first world power and a third world shiphole.


Yea I guess we are now a third world shiphole..
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2007, 01:03:29 AM »
it's worse in those places.  but let's go ahead and ride that train a little further and see where it takes us einstein.

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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2007, 01:50:06 AM »
The stuff that these guys reveled was probably classified by the Iraq government , therefor they need to be prosecuted.

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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2007, 02:32:04 AM »
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The stuff that these guys reveled was probably classified by the Iraq government , therefor they need to be prosecuted.

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Most of them worked for US companies or for the US govt and reported the issues. Only one of them worked for an Iraqi company. The corruption is just as bad on the US side as it is on the Iraqi side.
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2007, 04:18:42 AM »
Whistle blowers have always paid the price for blowing the whistle on stuff. It isn't right by any means.....just the way it is and has been. Should that change? Yes.
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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2007, 09:28:53 AM »
are you trying to tell me that the more power any government has the more that they abuse it?

Is this the same government a lot of you want to run your healthcare?

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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2007, 12:02:02 PM »
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are you trying to tell me that the more power any government has the more that they abuse it?

Is this the same government a lot of you want to run your healthcare?

lazs


Gotta love you die hard right wingers.. You will excuse anything away by trying to change the subject.
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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2007, 12:34:14 PM »
Not blaming anyone, just a general observation...

It's amazing how this country has changed so that companies now run everything and get away with anything.  Lawsuits are brought against the alleged swindlers, and they just dissolve away.  Happens in Iraq, happens here at home, happens with both Donkeys and Elephants.

A modern version of Lincoln's Gettysburg address would conclude:

"...a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations shall not perish from this earth."

While laz is right about gov't running healthcare, sad thing is, the future of company run healthcare doesn't look too bright either.

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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2007, 01:28:11 PM »
This is from the link article at msnbc.com.

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He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers — all of them being sold for cash, no receipts necessary, he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.


Steering this back on track...

Selling to American Soldiers, State Department workers, and MAYBE Iraqui embassy and ministry employees...Ok.

But to insurgents??? Have you guys' forgotten that american soldiers are over there, having to face this crap every day? Healthcare for citizens' is the last thing on an insurgents' mind, guys.

American soldiers are dying because of this ****.

This is actual treason. Whoever is responsible for the sales' should have to stand tall before the man.

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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2007, 01:55:19 PM »
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This is actual treason. Whoever is responsible for the sales' should have to stand tall before the man.


I agree, but it's not going to happen.
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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2007, 02:49:18 PM »
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Originally posted by kamilyun
Not blaming anyone, just a general observation...

It's amazing how this country has changed so that companies now run everything and get away with anything.  Lawsuits are brought against the alleged swindlers, and they just dissolve away.  Happens in Iraq, happens here at home, happens with both Donkeys and Elephants.

A modern version of Lincoln's Gettysburg address would conclude:

"...a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations shall not perish from this earth."

While laz is right about gov't running healthcare, sad thing is, the future of company run healthcare doesn't look too bright either.


You might like this, from 1946
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-461990723502527420

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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2007, 04:09:52 PM »
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
You might like this, from 1946
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-461990723502527420


ya ,ya , boosh ist deutschland, deutschland ist boosh.:rolleyes:

Offline Shamus

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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2007, 05:54:14 PM »
But the question is which way have we gone on the various scales in the last 8 years?

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