One million rounds a second? Jebuz, you have to be a really shitty shot to need that!
Posted by tempus at June 9, 2007 06:05 PMGreat post, soccerdad. Important to know.
Posted by Toby Petzold at June 9, 2007 07:43 PMThe Democrats should reduce the whole Iraq/national security/'support our troops' argument down to one simple sound bite:
"As long as our national defense budget is built around feeding a standing army of defense contractors rather than our troops, America cannot be safe."
Yes there are plenty of Democrats in Congress feeding from that puddle, but the Republicans are so deep in the mud that it would checkmate their security arguments next year.
Posted by herbal tee at June 9, 2007 08:16 PMsoccerdad,
Thanks for a good post. Please keep them coming. Next up, '08 Defense Appropriation; sharpen your pencils:
"...U.S. defense spending this year amounts to exactly twice the combined military spending of the next six biggest military powers: China, Russia, the U.K., France, Japan, and Germany.
Despite this, like presidential candidates Clinton and Obama, the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council is pushing hard to tie the party to increased military spending."
Financing the Imperial Armed Forces: A Trillion Dollars and Nowhere to Go but Up by Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.com, June 05, 2007
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174793/robert_dreyfuss_the_pentagon_s_blank_check
$1 trillion p.a. that could buy America real security through jobs solving unmet needs in education, health care, energy, transportation, housing and a host of other civilian applications pissed away on a corporate welfare program premised on the flawed assumption that our political problems have military solutions. And our Speaker, Majority Leader, leading presidential candidates, major public intellectuals and political consensus custodians can't conceive alternatives, understand why they're increasingly regarded with contempt or salvage their epic strategic disasters from the predictable lev'ee en masse that resists every US invasion. Schmucks.
Let's be clear: the "culture of corruption" Republicans are robbing Fort Knox for every cent they can lay their greedy little hands onto.
The fiscal thieves in today's corrupt Republican Party are not only fiscally raping U.S. taxpayers, but also are endangering the fiscal futures of our nation's children and grand-children.
Whether it's the Republican Party pipeline pumping taxpayer money to their Republican crony pals in the defense industry, or the pipeline diverting billions in taxpayer dollars to their corrupt crony pals in the faith-based industry, the end result is that American taxpayers are getting ripped off, with the middle-class and the poor (and their children) in America eventually going to have to pay the price.
And I really doubt that any number of Democratic Party hearings in Congress will undo the damage or mitigate the looming fiscal disaster that today's Republican Party has bequeathed to our nation, and our nation's children.
Where money is concerned, Republicans lack all morals, and are even willing to sell-out our country for their "thirty pieces of silver."
Posted by The Oracle at June 9, 2007 09:40 PMI think Bush also has a lucrative offer to join the firm of Bin Laden, Zawahiri and Rumsfeld. As their mascot.
Posted by Kevin Hayden at June 10, 2007 04:38 AMGreat post, and just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted by TIKI AL at June 10, 2007 08:51 AM"I think Bush also has a lucrative offer to join the firm of Bin Laden, Zawahiri and Rumsfeld. As their mascot."
Kevin, or their cheerleader.
Posted by Judith at June 10, 2007 03:34 PM2002 - get your portfolios in order guys, because although they don't know it yet, we are invading Iraq.
2003 - guess what folks, we're regrettably forced to invade Iraq.
Lesser scams go by the name of insider trading.
Posted by AlanDownunder at June 11, 2007 02:18 AM