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Re: McCain bashed by Paris Hilton
That's true this war isn't about genicide, or "terrorists", or racsim. it's about MONEY. What's iraq's major export? OIL! What dose george bush have all his money in? OIL! Why on earth couldn't our highly trained military defend these oil pipelines effectively for years on end? Because the company that rebiult them over and over again(with no bid contracts) has Dick cheney as the CEO! And which two individuals have went from mere millionaires to billionaires in this short time span? Bush and Cheney!
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I addamately appose the idea of extending our oil economy. Obamas proposed policies would help to ease us off our addiction (no I do not mean snorting caffine off of strippers). The main reason that global warming has not run away on us is the global dimming effect created by various factors most notably particle polutants.
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But what do you mean 'Bush has all his money in Oil'? He owned stock in the companies that produced the oil? The invasion hasnt increased profitsof the Oil companies, theyve decreased due to the new troubles in shiping/ protecting their Oil. How exactly did he make all this money supposedly? Im not saying your wrong, i just want to know the specifics, I end up discussing politics with friends often, and would like to bring this up with a friend who was in support of the war from the begining. Quote:
Also what do you mean 'Global warming running away on us'? And i havent heard the term Global Dimming, what is that? |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...nt/import.html Clearly if we wanted Money we would have declared war on Mexico (using illegal immagration as a defacto invasion) and Canada. (were tired of Alaska not being considered part of the contenental "49" states. Quote:
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In the aftermath of Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait in 1991, Halliburton crews helped bring 320 burning oil wells under control. (Thomas H. Cruikshank, who served as chairman and CEO from 1989 until 1995) With Haliburton's acquisition of Dresser Industries in 1998, the Kellogg-Brown & Root division (in 2002 renamed to KBR) was formed by merging Halliburton's Brown & Root (acquired 1962) subsidiary and the M.W. Kellogg division of Dresser (which Dresser had merged with in 1988). KBR is a major international construction company, which is a highly volatile undertaking subject to wild fluctuations in revenue and profit. Asbestos-related litigation from the Kellogg acquisition caused the company to book more than US$4.0 billion in losses from 2002 through 2004. In November 2002, KBR was tasked to plan oil well firefighting in Iraq (which it had experience with form the Kuwatti oil field fires, and in February 2003 was issued a contract to conduct the work. While critics contend that it was a no-bid contract, awarded due to Dick Cheney's position as Vice President, others contend, that this was not strictly a no-bid contract, and was invoked under a contract that KBR won "in a competitive bid process." The contract, referred to as LOGCAP, is a contingency-based contract that is invoked at the convenience of the Army. Because the contract is essentially a retainer, specific orders are not competitively bid (as the overall contract was). It has also been argued that when the contract was invoked in a similar manner during the Balkans crisis (when Bill Clinton was president), there was no controversy and very little scrutiny of the contract; proponents of this viewpoint argue that the KBR's LOGCAP contract was made a political issue by opponents of Bush and Cheney. From 1995–2002, Halliburton Brown & Root Services Corp was awarded at least $2.5 billion but has spent considerably less to construct and run military bases, some in secret locations, as part of the Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program. This contract was a cost plus 13% contract and BRS employees were trained on how to pass GAO audits to ensure maximum profits were attained. BRS was awarded and re-awarded contracts termed "non-competitive due to BRS being the only company capable to pull off the missions. DYNACORP actually won the competitively let 2nd contract but never received any work orders in the Balkans. (during the Clinton Administration.) In September 2005, under a competitive bid contract it won in July 2005, to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters, KBR started assessment of the cleanup and reconstruction of Gulf Coast U.S. Marine and U.S. Navy facilities that were damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The facilities include: Naval Air Station Pascagoula, Naval Station Gulfport, Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, two smaller U.S. Navy facilities in New Orleans and others in the Gulf Coast region. KBR has had similar contracts for more than 15 years. Quote:
Cheney retired from Hailburton during the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign with a severance package worth $34 million As of 2004, he had received $398,548 in deferred compensation from Halliburton while Vice President. Some commentators have speculated on a possible conflict of interest from Cheney receiving deferred compensation and stock options from Halliburton. As Vice President Chenney gets $208,1002 (the same as speaker of the house and Chief Supreme Court Justice) Plus $10,000 taxable expense allowance per year. George Bush makes $400,000 per year plus Plus $50,000 non-taxable expense allowance to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties. According to Slate magazine, George W. Bush has a net worth of around $9 million to $26 million, The Center for Public Integrity has collected details Bush's biggest asset is his Texas ranch. http://ask.yahoo.com/20040823.html Cheney's net worth, estimated to be between $30 million and $100 million, is largely derived from his post at Halliburton, as well as the Cheneys gross income of nearly $8.82 million. Last edited by genderhazard; 08-09-2008 at 05:12 AM. |
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Re: McCain bashed by Paris Hilton
Your copypasta tl;dr (although skimmed) may suggest they did not personally or directly make a billion bucks, but the conflict of interest remains and is extremely clear without granular specifics. They are oil/energy men that helped the oil industry to the detriment of the US and probably the world. Their friends and their "former" industry benefited greatly from the war against the wrong country. Meanwhile countries that were really involved with 911 are our great "buddies." SA, UAE, Pakistan were far more involved in 911 than Iraq. In short: incompetence and greed are the two words for the W administration.
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Iraq was unfinished business. I don't know why people try to tie Iraq to 911 beyond they were state sponsor of terrorism.
On 9/11/2001 Our troops were tied up with enforcing UN resolutions, while the UN implement oil for food programe was undermined by the U.N. itself. The Oil for Food program suffered from widespread corruption and abuse. Throughout its existence, the programme was dogged by accusations that some of its profits were unlawfully diverted to the government of Iraq and to UN officials. These accusations were made in many countries, including the US and Norway. It is estimated that as much as $10 billion to $21.3 billion went unaccounted for and/or was directed to Saddam Hussein and his government in the form of kickbacks and oil smuggling. Russia, France, and China were the lead violater of the programme giving kickbacks to Iraq. Not surprizing then that these UN Security council countries supported of efforts to lift the UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq and were also against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Since there no votes prevented a UN collition from dealing with Iraq. Once Iraq was defeated we should have taken out Syria as well. Iran is responsible for the IED's that kill our Peacekeeping force now in Iraq. There is no question that Iran needs to be dealt with. And they are going to be if not by the US than by Israel at which point all hell will break loose in the region. (Which is one reason we need to drill for oil here.) The problem with the War is we did not maintain SHOCK and AWE, We went into Iraq with Shock and Awwww. We are a very kind people. We give out enemy every advantage. We go to great lenghts and expense to avoid injuring innocent people. We could make very devistating low cost dumb bombs and Carpet Bomb, like we did in Germany and Japan. Heck we could just Nuke'em from here. But we don't. We could overrun Pakastan, the mountains pose a problem, but poison gas would wipe out anyone hiding in the caves. But we respect there borders. Saudi Arabia would probably be the last to be attcked, I'm sure it was hopped that by being in Iraq in a War situation would draw out the Saudis who wanted trouble into Iraq. Yet one more reason to have it be a staging ground. I know copypasta tl;dr - Don't let facts get in your way TrunKated. liveordie83 said Bush and Chenney are billionaries because of this war. Clearly that is Untrue. I demostrate that with Data not opinion. You think we went to War with the wrong Country, I'm fair minded. What is the right country you want us to kick the crap out of? |
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Re: McCain bashed by Paris Hilton
UGH! This is all old argument, my buddy. Do you really want me to go through your points?
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As for other countries, most of the 911 attackers were from SA. The UAE laundered money for AQ. Pakistan's officials sent money to Atta and is probably harboring OBL. And we invade Iraq who hated AQ. We pummeled them for years and years. They were beaten and defenseless. It was the wrong country. We knew they had no WMD. We knew they weren't involved in 911. Why do you support war, at all, much less with Iraq? Just because of Oil for Food? OMG! That wasn't even a major reason for the attack. We all know the real reasons. Oil. Money. Strategic place. But we were lied to and there were better options than destroying our economy, our reputation in the world, and killing so many. It really surprises me that people still cling to the fantasy that the Iraq war was defendable in any way. Last edited by TrunKated; 08-09-2008 at 09:34 AM. |
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We tried diplomacy with Iraq, and Afganistan. It was ineffectual, and with Iraq probably gave them enough time to move the WMDs to Syria. Quote:
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Oil prices are high, but if we had stared drilling and building oil refineraries when it was proposed during the Clinton presidency that would be under control. Corn prices are high because of ethenol. which affects grain and meat prices. Again nothing to do with the war. Frankly if you do not have a familymember in the military you can go about your daily routine and not even realize we are at war. Quote:
your memo story has all sorts of cavaets in it slug line "ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks. I read the transcript. Ron: Now this is from the Vice President's Office is how you remembered it--not from the president? Rob: No, no, no. What I remember is George saying, 'we got this from'--basically, from what George said was 'downtown.' Ron: Which is the White House? Rob: Yes. But he did not--in my memory--never said president, vice president, or NSC. Okay? But now--he may have hinted--just by the way he said it, it would have--cause almost all that stuff came from one place only: Scooter Libby and the shop around the vice president. Taking the transcript at it's word, (audio or video would be better) he says it did not come from the Vice President, everything else is speculation, to sell a book I might add. The transcript "comes on the heels of denials by both the White House and Richer of a claim Suskind made in his new book, The Way of The World. " Quote:
I find War distasteful but a nessisary evil. Would I like AQ to take all there troops out to the middle of the desert face coilliton forces head on in a "You got a problem with us bring it bitch battle." sure but that ain't gonna happen. Diplomacy and cooperation only work when it is mutually adventageous to both parties. Iraq had years to comply with UN sanctions, The Taliban would be in power if they handed over Osama Bin Ladden. Quote:
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Yes, lol! It's a very old argument. People have been arguing about the Iraq war for a long time. Where have you been? hehehe Quote:
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And why bother with the Iraq war anyway? They were not a threat to us and were being bombed by us all the time even before the invasion. They were contained. Why did we need to invade? There really is no logical reason beyond greed, oil, and the desire for a strategic place of operation, since we let SA kick us out. Quote:
Well, this guy lists 372 W and company scandals: http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html Quote:
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Must be nice to be independently wealthy, like you, dude. Quote:
Otherwise, why not sign up and go fight in Iraq, dude?!? Oh, and there a lot of other forgeries and lies leading up to the war. Nit pic that one, but what of the yellow "birthday" cake forgery? What of the Downing Street Memo? Head in the sand much? You know, I don't mean to be that nasty to you. I really like you and your very smart posts. I just don't get the pro-war thing. I have very conservative relatives who now hate W and agree with me on the war. They will probably vote for Obama, but they will vote Republican the rest of the time. They used to argue with me about W. Now they just are just resigned that W was a waste. They are very down about the war and the economy. I guess I should respect you for your persistence. But I don't understand it. Quote:
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oh, a good old political showdown. let me slaughter all your sacred cows. the war was wring, obama is in the pocket of corporate interests, people are dying each day thanks to bush, the middle east is justified in their hatred of us, McCain is a puppet figurehead, the Jerry Falwell/billy graham crowd controls over half of american through religious brainwashing and self destructive Armageddon focused campaigns of fear and bigotry, your elected officials don't give a flying fuck about you, unless you hold some money over their heads. people are petty, vicious and irredeemable, god is dead, the universe is dying, compassion has killed evolution and science has doomed us all.
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