Someone needs to make a commercial free documentary connecting the unqualified bush-connected to the Iraq pie. You know, who got what and why, and who stopped the investigations?
Posted by TIKI AL at September 17, 2006 12:30 AMNow Mary,
until some of these people go to jail, and that includes the poiticians as well as these companies, it won't matter what people think of them because they will continue to get away with it even after this administration is done.
My guess is this will be forgotten after the 2008 election regardless if a Republican or Democrat wins, and they'll still have all the money from these misadventures.
Just because we think it's shameful, doesn't mean they do. They're just opportunistic, like all crooks are.
The fault lies with the US people for not demanding better. Can't have a democracy if the people don't care.
Posted by Alex at September 17, 2006 05:23 AMFabulous scandal, although this was first reported years ago, and made no splash whatever. Once again, the print media presents a major scandal, and the televised media will ignore it.
Nor will the print media keep developing the story and keep it "going"---it's a one off, the American Boob either sees it of he doesn't (usually the latter), and then it's flushed down the memory hole.
And IF a Dem ever saw fit to mention the "Bushketeers in Iraq" scandal, and IF (Ha-Ha) the statement were broadcast for 10 seconds by the televised media, AmeriBoob would say, "What's he talkin' about agin? Isn't there a goddam GAME on?"
Seems like a real "news" story to me--massive corruption, cronyism and war profiteering by the party in power which resulted in a massive strategic military disaster.
Ya think maybe in a DEMOCRACY the national TV networks should be FIGHTING over rights to air the professionally created Greenwald documentary? Nope, it's "viral marketing" for us.
Failed Democracy 101. Could you imagine anything like this even ten years ago?
Posted by euzoius at September 17, 2006 06:39 AMI watched with my son the other night "RoboCop"--you know--private contractors taking over the police force of New Detroit. Pure fiction, right? Oh, then there was "Rollerball" many, many years ago. Same sort of thing. Corporate ambition equals global ambition. 'Just in the movies' you say?
Thom Hartmann (in his books) pointed out the the American Revolution was begun because colonial American merchants, farmers and manufacturers were fed up with the East India Company , a carhtered corporation chartered by the Crown of England---one its larger shareholders.
There is a lesson there. A lesson of history. Business may be "of" the people, but it is not "for" the people. Corporate co-opting of government is not just a plot device for the cinema.
It's here. It's now. It's deadly. And it appears to be winning.
Posted by gtash at September 17, 2006 11:28 AMSomebody please give Bush a BJ. That's the only way any of this will ever get mentioned on commerical TV.
Posted by herbal tee at September 17, 2006 04:09 PM