About 4 years ago while living in Japan I posted a picture of myself holding my absentee ballot, pointing my middle finger north and wearing a tee shirt I had made that said, "Fuck you Bush". This offended a ton of posters on the website classmates.com where I had posted my picture. Classmates sent me a notification stating that they would discontinue my account if I did not take the picture down. Fair enough. I took the picture down.
Since that time our country has remained the butt of jokes the world over, our soldiers come home from a war that never should have happened in the first place only to receive substandard medical care (the same thing happened during the last gulf war to our vets just in case anyone out there is paying attention), and our national deficit has grown leaps and bounds.
We now owe about 9 trillion(a portion of this, according to the Government Accountability Office, is due to the fraudulent contracts awarded for the rebuilding of Iraq). The BBC released a documentary regarding the profiteering from the Iraq war. Custer Battles, KBR, Halliburton and Blackwater were all mentioned in the report. Custer Battles was a newly formed company with no experience in the security industry when it landed one of the first contracts issued in Iraq in the spring of 2003 to secure the Baghdad airport. Blackwater is another example, owner Eric Prince interned for Daddy Bush and has been awarded government contracts totaling over $500 million since 2003. Chaney was CEO of Halliburton from 1995-2000. 'Conflict of interest', a logical person would surmise.
Who is going to be held accountable for the fraud in Iraq? The quick answer is the people of the United States of America. The sad thing is that we knew about all of this 5 years ago....how did we allow this to happen and why didn't the so called 'liberal media'(a joke at best) take issue?
Under the Clinton-Gore economic plan which was enacted in 1993 we had a budget surplus of $ 123 billion in 1999 the largest surplus in the history of the United States. What do we have with Bush-Cheney? 9 trillion in debt. I'm just saying...
If Obama makes it in, and I do hope he does, he is going to have one hell of a mess to clean up. As for me I voted for Gore and I voted for Kerry. I voted for a better America. What were the people voting for who voted for Bush the first time....how about the second time? I will never understand.
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