Also, your blood may actually boil.
The Great Iraq Swindle by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
"Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government services and for-profit enterprises have been blurred to the point of absurdity -- to the point where wounded soldiers have to pay retail prices for fresh underwear, where modern-day chattel are imported from the Third World at slave wages to peel the potatoes we once assigned to grunts in KP, where private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up."
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Has there ever been a bigger waste -- in people, money, national prestige, honor, moral authority, and basically everything we had? And why aren't Republicans, who have been railing against waste for generations, first in line with the flaming torches?
How can W let this crap happen and think he has the moral authority to call out other nations at the UN? Do you now understand why nobody listens to us and is constantly mad at us?
EARTH TO FUNG: WE DON'T GIVE A $#i+ WHAT THE WORLD THINKS!
What are these "other nations" you speak of?
There are no other nations, only untapped markets.
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