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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:39 AM Original message |
Iraq: Biggest Corruption Scandal in History - Newsweek. |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. Recommended |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
39. Here's another recent article...meant to respond to post #3..... K & R! |
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Teena (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
57. No surprise here... |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 01:11 AM Response to Reply #57 |
79. Welcome to DU! I agree with you concerning the appalling lack of |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
62. Custer Battles is already infamous, with oore to come. |
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CrazyOrangeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Kicked |
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wordpix2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. this was reported on by Frontline (PBS) & repukes vow to cut PBS funding |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. And, to top it off, our Special Ed funding was cut . . . |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
4. Isn't it amazing....there is absolutely no oversight over the monies |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Bunnatine is my hero! |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. I agree...one of the hero's that will have their day..... |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Web exclusive. God forbid they should inform their print readers. nt |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. BINGO!!! This is EXACTLY why the public is so underinformed. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. That way they can call us Internet Conspiracy Theorists. |
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Drewskie (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
26. well, newsweek often gets some pretty conspicuous links off the |
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Drewskie (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. they had to get the Sigmund Freud cover story in this week. yea!(nt) |
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cyberpj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
58. That's what I keep thinking - why aren't these stories in the mag? nt. |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
6. Incredible! |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:54 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Well, let's see - |
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corkhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
7. "Little Noticed" my ass; how about "UNREPORTED" by corp. media |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:51 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Dem party needs to expose GOP control of media - especially the print |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
48. A collective $2.3 Trillion dollar toilet seat ! LOL ! eom |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. check this out |
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Higans (819 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 05:22 PM Response to Reply #8 |
64. good find |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. Heckuvajob bu$hco, Heckuvajob! |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
14. I'm so sick of republicans |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
17. 12 Billion Here, 12 Billion There, Pretty Soon You're Talking Real Money! |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 03:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
53. Be me to it. |
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Inland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
18. needless war, lack of oversight, greed, cronyism, incompetence |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. That reminds me to add this to the list of reasons to impeach the CEO |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 03:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
82. Or "lowlights", as the case may be |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
21. Eisenhower warned us. Bush has now realized his nightmare. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
22. "$12 billion in U.S. currency was shipped to Iraq"!!! |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. YES! Cash! It had to be crated or something. |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
37. $100,000 Bricks of $100 bills or "footballs" |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:03 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. Oh! Good old "Custer Battles" - here's more on THEM: |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
23. DoD can't find $2.3 Trillion, the deficits are huge |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
45. In evil hands, wise counsel is always corrupted and misinterpreted to |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Look at how Bush is abandoning his base in order to do RFIDs |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:44 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Thanks EVDebs for the link and comments...One would have to be |
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file83 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 06:56 PM Response to Reply #23 |
68. I sometimes wonder what they are actually spending that $2.3 Trillion |
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EVDebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:37 PM Response to Reply #68 |
76. Check out Blank Check by Tim Weiner. Congressional payola and blackops |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
24. They're robbing us blind! |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
27. This was to be expected from the very start, and was reported |
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madmunchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
28. It has been mind boggling to me that with all of the "reported" |
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central scrutinizer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. Bushco was prescient |
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WiseButAngrySara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #30 |
46. The BFEE and the PNAC neocons are grotesquely sleazy and IMMORAL! |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
31. The BIG PICTURE is not the minutiae, although small chips add up, but |
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Kber (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. Is all this "missing money" included in the 1$ trillion cost estimate |
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mokaye (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 12:58 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. It's highway robbery |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 03:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
85. Hi mokaye!! |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I don't think there's any way of knowing. |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
35. Wrong. The "Biggest Corruption Scandal" in history is the |
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file83 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 06:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
67. No doubt. $23 billion is chump change compared to the "unaccounted" |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 09:40 PM Response to Reply #67 |
72. Too busy worrying about lost , pretty white women. |
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cassiepriam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 09:44 PM Response to Reply #35 |
73. Bingo. nt |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
36. Just think of all the young Republican CPA millionaires |
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NoAmericanTaliban (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
38. So many scandals So little time - I've always thought that the missing |
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LiberalUprising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #38 |
52. Should be but |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
40. There's a magazine called "1000 Most Expensive Homes for Sale". |
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Lostnote06 (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
41. No-Bid Contract vs Wellstone |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 01:50 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Yes. Interesting, no? |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. He would have led the opposition to the war. He was critical of our |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:20 PM Response to Reply #51 |
60. I'm no tinfoiler, but in that case, |
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newyawker99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 03:41 PM Response to Reply #41 |
86. Hi Lostnote06!! |
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Lostnote06 (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 04:59 PM Response to Reply #86 |
87. Thank You NY..... |
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RedEarth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
44. KR |
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Ksec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
50. So theyre corrupt and incompetent? |
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Botany (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
54. Only one thing to do ..... |
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Ksec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 03:14 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. LMFAO Damn man. You nailed it again. |
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Blutodog (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:21 PM Response to Reply #54 |
61. Looters !! |
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quiet.american (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
56. Friend who works at a bank told of a Wall Street guy who was shaking-- |
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KAT119 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
59. K&R! |
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RazzleDazzle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
63. And THIS shows that virtually all of Congress should be impeached |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
65. It wasn't little noticed to me. I consider Washington and Wall St... |
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DLnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
66. Somebody help please! ?Connection to US funding terrorism in Iraq? |
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Miss Chybil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
69. Bush to Republicans |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
70. Starting to make sense, all those 20-somethings the Coalition Provisional |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 12:21 AM Response to Reply #70 |
78. That makes a horrific amount of sense. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
71. Oops. We're running over our quota forf bad news. We'll have to save |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
74. Kick to catch those malignant profiteers!!! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
75. BY FAR |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-23-06 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
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bluesbassman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
80. Here's how the "investigation' will go down... |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 01:41 AM Response to Original message |
81. Iraq money |
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democrank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 04:57 AM Response to Original message |
83. What`s the problem? |
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Land Shark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-24-06 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
84. when you take a core govt function and privatize it, what really happens |
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