Dick Cheney, Heir Apparent?

Iran Contra Conspiracy Continues in Iraq and Haiti

John Negroponte, currently US ambassador to the UN will soon direct the largest US embassy in the world as ambassador to Iraq. It's not surprising that he will be a major figure in the concluding chapters of our costly venture in Iraq: He was in it from the beginning.

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Stolen Moments? Follow the Money

The day the music died in the intelligence committee hearings


Time is money: especially in this quagmire called Iraq. Much ado has been made of the false basis of our involvement. Investigations have come and gone here and in the UK. Tony Blair managed to hang on by his fingernails in the wake of the Hutton inquiry while the inner circle of Bush advisors manged to keep a stiff upper lip and carry on as if the game had been played by the book.

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False Basis of Iraq War

Precipates International Scandal

"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction


because it was the one issue everyone could agree on."


Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

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Haliburton Hose Job

One senior military commander wrote that soldiers were "using hoses from an Iraqi latrine stall to get water enough to maintain their hygienic needs."

Halliburton CEO David Lesar has directed his employees to conduct a letter-writing campaign to counter the negative publicity of "corporate leaders who violate the public trust should never be given that trust again."
The Halliburton subsidiary, previously known as Brown & Root, was cited at least twice in the past six years by the General Accounting Office for inflating costs....
...as few as 20 percent of American soldiers in Iraq have access to purified water
(which is provided by Haliburton on a no-bid contract) and entire units are suffering from dysentery. One senior military commander wrote that soldiers were "using hoses from an Iraqi latrine stall to get water enough to maintain their hygienic needs."

The Daily Mislead

Comprehensive 911 debunking:
in BLOG format.

2 billion dollars from the reconstruction of Iraq ought to be a big help to Cheney's upcoming presidential campaign. Like Richard Nixon's run for the house of representatives, the candidate doesn't even have to know who's spending all that money in support of his candidacy.