Guess Who's Uncle Struck it Rich Because of the Iraq War?

[tobedawg]

Yep! Freedom is on the March!! -- TD


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050223/ts_latimes/companysworkiniraqprofitedbushsuncle

[Orville Wrong]

Yeah, a real rags to riches story.

"Bucky?" That cracks me up.

Meanwhile, my sad attempt at war profiteering by taking a small position in Halliburton has raked dick.

[wombat18]

"ESSI is also profiting from panic-mongering on the home front. Last summer, while Georgie bounced the "threat level" up and down, ESSI bagged a fat Homeland Security contract to begin developing a fleet of mobile emergency communication centers for use in the event of a biochemical terrorist attack by the CIA's old Afghan jihad employees--now better known as al Qaeda. As long as George keeps those colored lights going--and the ex-CIA gang do their duty with the occasional bit of ooga-booga here and there -- Uncle Bill will keep gulping that "threat level" gravy.

Overall, ESSI slurped up an estimated $380 million from the Pentagon alone last year, not counting the China deal and an extra $26 million dollop from Saudi Arabia--that other famous bastion of freedom and democracy--to service its Royal Air Force".



Anyone note the pattern ... Family of Saud, China, Family of Bush ... is this the new axis of evil ? Or the new axis of capitalism ... coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you !

[slow-dog]

ESSI is also profiting from panic-mongering on the home front. Last summer, while Georgie bounced the "threat level" up and down, ESSI bagged a fat Homeland Security contract to begin developing a fleet of mobile emergency communication centers for use in the event of a biochemical terrorist attack by the CIA's old Afghan jihad employees--now better known as al Qaeda. As long as George keeps those colored lights going--and the ex-CIA gang do their duty with the occasional bit of ooga-booga here and there -- Uncle Bill will keep gulping that "threat level" gravy.

Overall, ESSI slurped up an estimated $380 million from the Pentagon alone last year, not counting the China deal and an extra $26 million dollop from Saudi Arabia--that other famous bastion of freedom and democracy--to service its Royal Air Force.



Anyone note the pattern ...

Yup. It's (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5778.htm) a pattern, (http://www.cosmiciguana.com/archives/001742.html) alright! (http://www.voice4change.org/discussion/display_topic_threads.asp?TopicID=419)

If you're going to pull chunks of your info from somewhere, you could at least cite them.

[Orville Wrong]

SWEET! Just discovered that one of my mutual funds holds ESSI!

I'm rich bee-yotch! (not really, the fund only kicked 15.7 last year).

Why did George W. Bush insist -- with such fanatical certainty, despite the well-established, clearly-stated doubts of his own intelligence services -- that Saddam Hussein was hoarding a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction? Why the insistence on this pathological disassociation from reality, which led directly to the death of thousands of innocent people? Why did he tell such lies, such cynical lies, such horrible lies, lies dripping blood, lies breeding more lies like rats on a plague ship?
When someone who hasn't had the kool-aid yet reads a lead like this on something formatted as a news story (i.e. with a dateline), they hit the back button. This is atrocious, irrespective of its factual content.

[wombat18]

Yup. It's (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5778.htm) a pattern, (http://www.cosmiciguana.com/archives/001742.html) alright! (http://www.voice4change.org/discussion/display_topic_threads.asp?TopicID=419)


Written by Chris Floyd, a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor to CounterPunch (which is where my quote was from. (CounterPunch is edited by Alexander Cockburn).

Thanks, SD.

[slow-dog]

Written by Chris Floyd, a columnist for the Moscow Times and a regular contributor to CounterPunch (which is where my quote was from. (CounterPunch is edited by Alexander Cockburn).

Thanks, SD.

No problemo.

[Orville Wrong]

CounterPunch
:chuckle:
:guffaw:

[Homsar]

I have a cousin that once worked/does work for Halliburton. Not sure what he does, though. He's in Texas.

[weeone]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20050223/capt.932dd3c44bc091f362b86a62028cd3bb

[tobedawg]

He looks like a pedaphile..

It's nice to know that people can make millions of dollars off of the corpses of U.S. Soldiers and dead Iraqi's..

[Orville Wrong]

It's nice to know that people can make millions of dollars off of the corpses of U.S. Soldiers and dead Iraqi's..

William Bush exercised options on 8,438 shares of company stock Jan. 18, according to reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (news - web sites). He acknowledged in an interview that the transaction was worth about $450,000.

Do you even read these things past the first paragraph?

[weeone]

Oh get off it Orville. This ONE guy made 450 000. And he's not the only one to profit.