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All in the (Profiteering) First Family

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Close relatives of President George W. Bush continue to benefit financially from the Iraq invasion, as revealed by sources including regulatory filings.

Neil M. Bush, a younger brother of George W. Bush, has obtained a $60,000-per-year contract from a principal in D.C.-based New Bridge Strategies, a private firm set up to generate contracts in Iraq.

These business links suggest that Chalabi, a London-based Iraqi exile, has ties to the White House along with his known ties to Vice President Cheney and the Pentagon. At a House Government Reform Committee hearing on Iraq contracts on March 11, some congressmen began to raise questions about private connections behind some of the contracts. However, committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., cut off the questions before witnesses could answer.

It looks more than ever as though Bush planned all along to invade Iraq, but whatever his motives, it is certain that the war benefits his own family.

http://www.populist.com/04.7.burns.html

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Whatever the merits, or lack thereof, of your thesis, it hardly settles the matter, since millions of us with nothing to gain in terms of business, etc., think invasion was the right thing to do.

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Brandon9000 wrote:

Whatever the merits, or lack thereof, of your thesis, it hardly settles the matter, since millions of us with nothing to gain in terms of business, etc., think invasion was the right thing to do.

That doesn't really answer his comment, now does it? Millions of people also believe in Creationism, UFOs, or that the Holocaust was faked. Just because "millions of people believe" in something doesn't make it correct.

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hobitbob wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:
Whatever the merits, or lack thereof, of your thesis, it hardly settles the matter, since millions of us with nothing to gain in terms of business, etc., think invasion was the right thing to do.

That doesn't really answer his comment, now does it? Millions of people also believe in Creationism, UFOs, or that the Holocaust was faked. Just because "millions of people believe" in something doesn't make it correct.

You are correct. Millions may believe something which is untrue or morally wrong.

By saying, "whatever the merits.....," I let his assertion stand without comment, but pointed out that it did not settle the issue of whether the invasion was necessary. Even if Bush were the antichrist, it would not prove that some particular thing he did was a bad thing. The merits of a cause are not determined by the personal qualities of its leaders. In general, statements such as "many people feel otherwise" do not constutute proof. I guess that a statement like that is sort of a plausibility argument.

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Brandon, you are an interesting little mammal, I have to give you that. Rolling Eyes

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Military Industrial Complex-Neocons

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hobitbob wrote:

Brandon, you are an interesting little mammal, I have to give you that.

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As principle shareholders in the Carlyle Group, the Bush dynasty will get even fatter and wealthier thanks to the Iraq war.

But don't forget Dick "Fatty" Cheney. Since he owns 433,000 shares in Haliburton -- first in line at the Federal trough, he and Lynne will pocket millions of US tax dollars in the Iraq rebuilding scheme.

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