Kerry Liberates Palestine

[High_Gravity]

'Think Dick and Halliburton are more deserving of US tax dollars?

"Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War."

Instead of giving $4 billion to a bunch of American hating Allah Akbar screaming Jihadis, lets keep the money at home. Or at least give it to a country that doesn't hate us, just saying.

It is just a bribe. I don't see that money going anywhere.

Where are the billions promised by Clinton after Cast Lead. None of it has been handed out yet. This is all just mouth.

Good I don't want a dime of our money going there.

 

[Ropey]

There's been a middle east reset.

A very quiet one.

 

[P F Tinmore]

'Think Dick and Halliburton are more deserving of US tax dollars?

"Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War."

The people who push for war always get rich over it. Funny how it always works out like that.

It must be that military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.

And then there is the prison industrial complex, and the homeland security industrial complex.

They are all just phony scams to pack their pockets with our tax money.

It's always those who don't get close to the killing that make the big financial "killing."

"Even though the military has largely pulled out of Iraq, private contractors remain on the ground and continue to reap U.S. government contracts. For example, the U.S. State Department estimates that taxpayers will dole out $3 billion to private guards for the government's sprawling embassy in Baghdad.

"The costs of paying private and publicly listed war profiteers seem miniscule in light of the total bill for the war.

"Last week, the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University said the war in Iraq cost $1.7 trillion dollars, not including the $490 billion in immediate benefits owed to veterans of the war and the lifetime benefits that will be owed to them or their next of kin."

ZCommunications | Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War by Angelo Young | ZNet Article

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JruYSXqfleQ]'US fabricates lies on Iran Nuclear energy program' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Hossfly]

The people who push for war always get rich over it. Funny how it always works out like that.

It must be that military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about.

And then there is the prison industrial complex, and the homeland security industrial complex.

They are all just phony scams to pack their pockets with our tax money.

It's always those who don't get close to the killing that make the big financial "killing."

"Even though the military has largely pulled out of Iraq, private contractors remain on the ground and continue to reap U.S. government contracts. For example, the U.S. State Department estimates that taxpayers will dole out $3 billion to private guards for the government's sprawling embassy in Baghdad.

"The costs of paying private and publicly listed war profiteers seem miniscule in light of the total bill for the war.

"Last week, the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University said the war in Iraq cost $1.7 trillion dollars, not including the $490 billion in immediate benefits owed to veterans of the war and the lifetime benefits that will be owed to them or their next of kin."

ZCommunications | Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War by Angelo Young | ZNet Article

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JruYSXqfleQ]'US fabricates lies on Iran Nuclear energy program' - YouTube[/ame]

I didn't see this on FNC. It must be propaganda.

 

[georgephillip]

"As private enterprise entered the war zone at unprecedented levels, the amount of corruption ballooned, even if most contractors performed their duties as expected.

"According to the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the level of corruption by defense contractors may be as high as $60 billion.

"Disciplined soldiers that would traditionally do many of the tasks are commissioned by private and publicly listed companies.

"Even without the graft, the costs of paying for these services are higher than paying governement employees or soldiers to do them because of the profit motive involved. No-bid contracting - when companies get to name their price with no competing bid - didn't lower legitimate expenses.

"(Despite promises by President Barack Obama to reel in this habit, the trend toward granting favored companies federal contracts without considering competing bids continued to grow, by 9 percent last year, according to the Washington Post.)"

What would Smedley Butler say?

 

[Trajan]

so, lets cut to the chase, how much $$ is he promising them?

and of course, the larger question, who's swiss account will it wind up in?

Considerably less than $233 billion is the answer to your first question, and Avigdor Lieberman probably knows the answer to your second.

what does that have to do with what I asked?




oh hey is arafats widow still getting her $500K a year on top of the 20 Million?

 

[Hossfly]

"As private enterprise entered the war zone at unprecedented levels, the amount of corruption ballooned, even if most contractors performed their duties as expected.

"According to the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the level of corruption by defense contractors may be as high as $60 billion.

"Disciplined soldiers that would traditionally do many of the tasks are commissioned by private and publicly listed companies.

"Even without the graft, the costs of paying for these services are higher than paying governement employees or soldiers to do them because of the profit motive involved. No-bid contracting - when companies get to name their price with no competing bid - didn't lower legitimate expenses.

"(Despite promises by President Barack Obama to reel in this habit, the trend toward granting favored companies federal contracts without considering competing bids continued to grow, by 9 percent last year, according to the Washington Post.)"

What would Smedley Butler say?

Georgie Boy, do you really think you are fooling anyone? You hate the U.S. and you hate the Jews because you think they are responsible for the position you are now in. If you had exerted yourself earlier in life the way you are exerting yourself yourself now on forums, you might not be depending on the taxpapers in Los Angeles to help you out with an apartment. So tell us, Georgie Boy, how many times are you going to bring up this Butler guy? Odds are that you never even heard of him before you starting researching to post your nonsense on forums. It amusing how Georgie Boy finds something he likes on the Internet so he posts about it ad nauseam.

 

[georgephillip]

Yeah lets invest $4 billion dollars into a country that mourned the loss of Usama Bin Laden, god we are so fucking stupid.

'Think Dick and Halliburton are more deserving of US tax dollars?

"Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War."

Instead of giving $4 billion to a bunch of American hating Allah Akbar screaming Jihadis, lets keep the money at home. Or at least give it to a country that doesn't hate us, just saying.

I don't see why any natural citizens of this country should be required to pay taxes in support of corrupt thugs in Palestine or Israel...or Iraq, for that matter:

"Even though the military has largely pulled out of Iraq, private contractors remain on the ground and continue to reap U.S. government contracts. For example, the U.S. State Department estimates that taxpayers will dole out $3 billion to private guards for the government's sprawling embassy in Baghdad."

US oil companies along with other MIC corporations aren't exactly shouldering the same share of the federal tax load they did fifty years ago:

"Just how much do big oil companies pay in taxes?

"Exxon Mobil says it pays plenty — more in U.S. taxes than it earned in the United States last year.

"Not so, say critics of the oil industry; the Center for American Progress says the oil giant’s effective federal income tax rate is about half the 35 percent standard for U.S. companies. The liberal-leaning think tank, citing Exxon Mobil’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, says the corporation didn’t pay any federal income tax in 2009."

Wesley Clark laid it out in his 2003 book when he recounted an conversation he had in the Pentagon two months after 911:

"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan." [147]

Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
There's no reason I know why US taxpayers should be required to socialize that cost while corporations privatize the profits.