Bush Buddies Raking in War Bucks

[10Bears]

Okay let me help the Republicans.

Loreal (sp) is a company that makes satellites. In 1996 they contributed $100,000 to Clinton/Gore campaign with the hope then President Clinton would sign a waver allowing the transfer of technology to the Chinese Gov. to effect cheaper launches thereby saving the company many times more than the $100k campaign contribution.

Hey you know how to get rid of corruption in government?.. Easy.. simply remove the meaning of the word.

Toad you gonna answer they're question? This new batch of Progressives is very impressive.

[Torque]

Originally posted by Toad
Sorry, guys... I'm way too busy to search.. but feel free to plead that Bill's admin was the first ever to be squeaky clean in this regard.

Did you type that with a limp wrist?

[Dune]

PS

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -- P.J. O'ROURKE

[popeye]

Toad, you don't need to search.  The Republicans spent $80 million of your taxes turning over every rock that Clinton ever stepped on.  I'm sure they would have noticed a $2 billion no-bid contract.

Was he squeaky clean?  Not by a long shot.  Personally, I think he was a sleazy fool.  However, he was an amateur at corporate connections when compared to the current administration.

[popeye]

One interpretation of "Iraqi Liberation"....

"One alliance of Republican lobbyists, New Bridge Strategies, whose interest in Iraq has earned considerable attention because of its close ties to the Bush administration, is gearing up to seek distribution rights for major U.S. companies producing everything from grain to auto parts to shampoo.

'Getting the rights to distribute Procter & Gamble products would be a gold mine,' said one of the partners at New Bridge who did not want to be named. 'One well- stocked 7-Eleven could knock out 30 Iraqi stores; a Wal-Mart could take over the country,' he said."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30907-2003Oct1?language=printer

[DmdNexus]

This is another example of Libral puke and lies attempting to stain the good moral character of our Vietnam (Texas National Guard) veteran President.

Thomas Jefferson was the first president to bring in the "Spoils System" and it has been a American Presidential Tradition ever since.

Bush stole the election fair and square, naturally he has every right to reward those who helped him.

He got rid of an "evil" dictator who was causing the region to be "unstable."

He and his croonies - so what if it costs 87 billion... this will create more jobs - albeit Iraqi Jobs. But at least when his croonies buy new houses, cars, and pools.

We Americans can clean their houses, wash their cars, and clean their pools.

So you see, this is creating American jobs for migrant workers from Mexico and Indonisia.

All librals do is complain - sheesh get a job! If librals would work  they wouldn't have time to complain!

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Toad
Nothing new about it at all if you study the history of the US political system.

In fact, it's "business as usual" for both parties when they respectively held the White House.

And you call ME a situational ethicist?

[MJHerman]

Geez guys....if Bush is such a bad President and so many people disagree with his domestic and foreign policies, just don't re-elect him next November.  Sure you have to live with the Administration for another year....but just do your best to make sure that more people vote for his opponent than for him come November 2004.

On second thought, that plan didn't work in November 2000.

Sorry guys...you're screwed for another 4 years

[Yeager]

damnexus I really think you need to go smoke some dope dude.

Oh wait..........

you funny hehe

[MJHerman]

"Getting the rights to distribute Procter & Gamble products would be a gold mine,' said one of the partners at New Bridge who did not want to be named. 'One well- stocked 7-Eleven could knock out 30 Iraqi stores; a Wal-Mart could take over the country,' he said."

Ahhhh....so this what what "freedom" is all about.

I recall a definition of "imperialism" (or was it "colonialism") from my Poli. Sci. days which was:

Colonize a nation/people.
Strip them of their natural resources (oil, sugar, timber, gold, etc.).
Transport natural resources back to the mother country.
Produce consumer goods.
Transport consumer goods back to the colony for sale.
Repeat ad nauseum.

[Toad]

Originally posted by midnight Target
And you call ME a situational ethicist?

Yep.

What I stated isn't dependent upon the situation or which party's in the White House. It's simply true historical fact, no matter which party is in.

It's a historical observation rather than a judgemental pronouncement.

[AKIron]

From one of your links rpm:

"A subsidiary of Halliburton, which Vice President Dick Cheney headed from 1995, has received hundreds of millions in government contracts for work in Iraq."

Hmmmm, another subsidiary of Haliburton collected $1.2 billion by Bush, oh wait, was he president between '92 and '99???? Maybe it was someone else?

"According to data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, between 1992 and 1999 the Pentagon paid Brown & Root over $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe."

[Eagler]

if it weren't above board .. don't ya think drunk Teddy and his media friends would be having a field day with it???

[JBA]

Originally posted by niknak
Maybe the point is these companies shouldn't politically affiliated.
The money should go to the companies who give the best value for money (it is your money after all).

     If G. Bush's friends are offering the best value for money then it's not a problem. On the other hand if they do not and i was a US taxpayer, whatever my political affliation, i wouldn't want a company lining it's pockets with my money, even if they agreed with my politics.

than take back the
education system, social securty, postal, amtrack

[JBA]

Originally posted by Eagler
if it weren't above board .. don't ya think drunk Teddy and his media friends would be having a field day with it???

That’s  Mr.  Drunk, negligent homicide committing, adulterous, Teddy to you.  Gees show some respect he is a Senator after all.