Thursday, February 02, 2006
House Cuts Domestic Spending: Corruption in Iraq
The House voted through some big cuts in available money for student loans, Medicare, and Medicaid. The voting, of course, went pretty much along party lines. The Republicans are perfectly satisfied seeing poor people get denied access to as much as is possible.
The cuts are to help out the Bush-Cheney Regime so they can dump more money into holes that their pals happen to have their hands in. Outrageously priced toilet seats, defective armor, over-priced and out-moded weapons systems... We got to find the money somewhere, right?
Pigs.
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/international/middleeast/02reconstruct.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
February 2, 2006
Wide Plot Seen in Guilty Plea in Iraq Project
By JAMES GLANZ
Robert J. Stein Jr. could not have been clearer about his feelings toward the American businessman who was receiving millions of dollars in contracts from Mr. Stein to build a major police academy and other reconstruction projects in Iraq.
"I love to give you money," Mr. Stein wrote in an e-mail message to the businessman, Philip H. Bloom, on Jan. 3, 2004, just as the United States was trying to ramp up its rebuilding program in Iraq.
As it turned out, Mr. Stein had the money to give. Despite a prior conviction on felony fraud that his Pentagon background check apparently missed, Mr. Stein was hired and put in charge of at least $82 million of reconstruction money in the south central Iraqi city of Hilla by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American-led administration that was then running Iraq.
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Elizabeth Rubin contributed reporting for this article
* Copyright 2006The New York Times Company
The cuts are to help out the Bush-Cheney Regime so they can dump more money into holes that their pals happen to have their hands in. Outrageously priced toilet seats, defective armor, over-priced and out-moded weapons systems... We got to find the money somewhere, right?
Pigs.
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/international/middleeast/02reconstruct.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
February 2, 2006
Wide Plot Seen in Guilty Plea in Iraq Project
By JAMES GLANZ
Robert J. Stein Jr. could not have been clearer about his feelings toward the American businessman who was receiving millions of dollars in contracts from Mr. Stein to build a major police academy and other reconstruction projects in Iraq.
"I love to give you money," Mr. Stein wrote in an e-mail message to the businessman, Philip H. Bloom, on Jan. 3, 2004, just as the United States was trying to ramp up its rebuilding program in Iraq.
As it turned out, Mr. Stein had the money to give. Despite a prior conviction on felony fraud that his Pentagon background check apparently missed, Mr. Stein was hired and put in charge of at least $82 million of reconstruction money in the south central Iraqi city of Hilla by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American-led administration that was then running Iraq.
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Elizabeth Rubin contributed reporting for this article
* Copyright 2006The New York Times Company
