Author Topic: Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers (Read 2306 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #45 on:** August 27, 2007, 02:55:44 PM »

thanks for the link jb... I did watch some of it on cable and it was terrible. The more I watched the more I felt used.

I went to your link tho thinking there might be some links to stories about some of the earth shaking things I had seen that somehow had escaped anyone else.

They are laughable.. the reason I wanted to see the links is because... I like to get both sides. There was no other side... in fact... the other side didn't even know they were being accused in most cases.

The way it works is... you say something and link a source... I see it comes from some far left or right corner of the internet and... either ignore it or.. if it is interesting enough... I google the subject and get another side... usually the opposite one...

I go with the side that makes the most compelling case and seems the most documented. This thing doesn't even try.

To me.. it is like saying the twin towers were not hit with airliners... you can't hardly find anyone denying it cause... who would think it was a serious contention in the first place.

I asked RPM in case he was familiar with some poisoning of marines with bad water... that would be news... I would love to hear both sides of such a story.

I am certainly not gonna go on what one man said with nothing else to go on.

lazs

rpm · « **Reply #46 on:** August 27, 2007, 02:59:47 PM »

Did ya bother to read the links on the film site? Ya know like the Senate hearings?

rpm · « **Reply #47 on:** August 27, 2007, 03:12:40 PM »

Here Lazs, how would a Senate report do for you? Be careful, they use big words and no pikchures.
http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/hearings/hearing30/kbr.pdf
(hint: it's from the films website links)

Yeager · « **Reply #48 on:** August 27, 2007, 03:16:50 PM »

is this the gonzalas thread?

lazs2 · « **Reply #49 on:** August 27, 2007, 03:20:07 PM »

rpm... comeon now... be honest...

Ya got to admit that the hearings that they quote are simply democrat withhunts that never have a resolution... no real charges are levied and no real proof is offered.. the players in the hearings read like a who's who of liberal democrat war protesters.

The link to hearings is telling. It pretty much shows who is pulling the strings on this...

All the links go to the same democrat site. Nothing was ever resolved or proven in any of em... no further study was done or even called for.

None of the other "research" sites is even mildly legit. Just links to the same people making the same claims. Claims so weird that they never even made it on the radar of the lefty media.

I will continue to dig tho cause this one is pretty fun.

I did watch "my war diary" on the military channel tho yesterday... very refreshing... vids from the soldiers themselves... None seemed too put out by the horrors described...

A breath of fresh air..

lazs

rpm · « **Reply #50 on:** August 27, 2007, 03:25:05 PM »

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Originally posted by crockett
Have you ever read any of his posts in the past.. Even if you provided him with a linkage, he would come up with some other excuse as to why it's not real proof.

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Originally posted by lazs2
rpm... comeon now... be honest...

Ya got to admit that the hearings that they quote are simply democrat withhunts that never have a resolution... no real charges are levied and no real proof is offered.. the players in the hearings read like a who's who of liberal democrat war protesters.

The link to hearings is telling. It pretty much shows who is pulling the strings on this...

All the links go to the same democrat site. Nothing was ever resolved or proven in any of em... no further study was done or even called for.

None of the other "research" sites is even mildly legit. Just links to the same people making the same claims. Claims so weird that they never even made it on the radar of the lefty media.

I will continue to dig tho cause this one is pretty fun.

I did watch "my war diary" on the military channel tho yesterday... very refreshing... vids from the soldiers themselves... None seemed too put out by the horrors described...

A breath of fresh air..

lazs

Wow, Crockett nailed it.

Swager · « **Reply #51 on:** August 27, 2007, 03:32:52 PM »

A bird with a heavy right wing flies in a circle.....

.....and never gets anywhere!!

storch · « **Reply #52 on:** August 27, 2007, 08:10:21 PM »

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Originally posted by crockett
Storch I'll agree with you and say that the beginning of this documentary is poorly done IMO. The first time I watched it, I thought it would easily give doubters an easy out.

Ignore the family stuff at the start and watch the full documentary, about half way through they start getting into the good stuff. Meaning non family members and actual employees of the various contractors.

I made a post about this documentary on this forum a while back.. it is worth the watch and IMO should be watched. There is a lot of BS going on over there and these companies are making millions on the back of our soldiers.

My post on the subject http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209990&highlight=iraq+sale

You can also see the vid on the site in my sig.. http://www.welched.com

you know what, tomorrow morning instead of running for an hour I'll sit through that crapumentary on the weight of your suggestion alone.

then I'll think it's pure pooh and rip you a new one on this here BBS.

crockett · « **Reply #53 on:** August 27, 2007, 08:38:21 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
you know what, tomorrow morning instead of running for an hour I'll sit through that crapumentary on the weight of your suggestion alone.

then I'll think it's pure pooh and rip you a new one on this here BBS.

fair enough

rpm · « **Reply #54 on:** August 27, 2007, 11:45:06 PM »

Can't ask for more than that.

storch · « **Reply #55 on:** August 28, 2007, 04:31:57 AM »

dudes, I got through twenty eight minutes of this tripe. I'm going to run now. If I find that limey bassturd somewhere I'm going to beat twenty eight minutes out of his face and ribs.

to be fair though I don't watch right wing crapumentaries either.

JB88 · « **Reply #56 on:** August 28, 2007, 04:38:22 AM »

wuss.

VWE · « **Reply #57 on:** August 28, 2007, 04:45:13 AM »

All the contractors I've ever had to work with here in Iraq put one thing at the top of their list as to why they are here... money. Greed is their motivation plain and simple, I watched that stupid movie a couple weeks after I got here. If you found this dribble to be 'insightful' I've got a few more 'must see' videos for you simple minded folks. Here... start with this one...

Elfie · « **Reply #58 on:** August 28, 2007, 05:11:54 AM »

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Originally posted by VWE
All the contractors I've ever had to work with here in Iraq put one thing at the top of their list as to why they are here... money. Greed is their motivation plain and simple, I watched that stupid movie a couple weeks after I got here. If you found this dribble to be 'insightful' I've got a few more 'must see' videos for you simple minded folks. Here... start with this one...

You know some folks will never believe this because it doesn't suit their agenda.

lazs2 · « **Reply #59 on:** August 28, 2007, 08:05:41 AM »

this is kind of funny... swagger talks about flying on only a right wing but man....

look at the sources for the "research" in this hoax... reads like a who's who in the left wing faction of the democratic party and bloggers.

the left wing owns the movie and documentary industry... and why not? lots of raw emotion and soundbites. for emotional women who like to feel everything and not think...

I bet no one that watched the movie could repeat the charges it made word for word. who cares? it was just for shock value.

Hell... the thing is so insignificant that no one is even bothering to debunk it. I googled the thing and all I got was a few places that sell the dvd and a myriad of high pitched shrieking lefty sites.... laughable.

So how many companies were found guilty by the democrats in that hearing? none?

Like I said tho... I have no doubt that there is profiteering in every war and every government contract ever written. I just don't think that this documentary anything but a left wing hatchet job full of emotion and exaggeration.

lets just say that I want to hear it from some other source than this film... the film is not much more honest than the lefty blogs it uses for reference.

I understand the thinking on the left tho... they are really angry about talk radio and their failure to plug into that facet of pop media. movies don't work cause if the have too subtle a message no one gets it and if it is too blatant no one goes to the film so... "documentaries" just like a book but no reading is involved and you can get the whole thing over in an hour or two... better yet... people don't really recall what you said so much as the overall feeling... if they want to check something they have to buy another ticket.

lazs