Home > TABOO: The Questions Which Reporers Cannot Ask
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Whether its out of fear for their jobs or just the excercize of "diplomacy", there are meaningful and dynamic questions whiich the Press cannot ask of the Bush administration. Among them:
Will you please tell us why you won’t investigate HUGE government waste in the Pentagon (which "lost" over a trillion dollars!) and other departments? Surely at very least BILLIONS of dollars could be saved by so doing.
Why do our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq still have inadequate armor and food? Can’t we afford it? After all, you continually brag that the US military is the finest in the world.
Isn’t the reason we don’t invade countries who have had and still have human rights violations far worse than did Saddam, that they don’t have reserves of OIL or other strategic resources which we’d like to control "in the name of freedom"?
Along the same lines, why do we continually point the finger of shame at countries like Russia and China for human rights violations when WE are guilty of many of the same behaviors and have not yet corrected them?
Why do we continue to tell the world that Afghanistan is a huge success when the Taliban are making serious inroads and only Kabul is at all "safe"?..and why did Karzai (and Bush) promise to clean up the opium trade...but haven’t?
Lastly, here’s a tough one: How much money, personally, have Bush and Cheney, Condi,Rove,Rumsfeld, and others in the administration made as the direct or indirect result of our war actions since 9/11?
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8 May 2006, 00:54
Why, why...? To many questions! They should have learned from the Russians and Britains. This nations were never able to defeat Afghanistan.
8 May 2006, 15:34
Maybe Afghanistan was a success. The Taliban didin’t approve of poppy growing and the whole country was down to 7,000 acres. They now grow 300,000 acres and it shows all over the streets of Europe and Russia not to mention the USofA who must have other sources or it gets shipped back on troop rotation as with Viet Nam.
There was already one opium war and we know it was somewhat one sided.
Let’s face it petrol, chemical, pharmaceuticals help make the world go around and those who reap the benifits care not if it’s legal or illegal as long as it is traded with fiat money.
Gold in the late 60’s $35.00 ounce, marijuana $35.00 ounce and this held true until gold went above $300.00.
One ounce of silver in the 60’s would buy 3-4 gallons of gas, 3-4 loaves of bread, etc. That one ounce of silver will buy you the same today. Nothing has changed today except more people are duped/doped and our fiat money is not backed by hard currency nor "In God We Trust" but backed by bullets made with depleted uranium.
That’s ok because when Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans are so polluted with DU, Halliburton can move in and get the job done (pump oil) with funny suits and cheap labor.
Petroleum=chemicals=pharmaceuticals=fiat money rotation.
No trillions or billions of dollars lost, we will just print more and someday soon as the world wises up all the greenbacks will be considered counterfit and the new colored money will probably stay within the borders of the USofA and gold will once again become the monetary standard for the oil trade. Of course we would have to own the oil fields.
The only thing standing in the way of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caspian Sea is Iran. They have plans to open a oil bourse and sell in Euros (fiat) but the ultimate goal will be the dinar and the dirhan (hard currency) gold and silver. South America has other plans but they still want to sell in Euros.
As far as the armor and food that would have to be taken up with the DoD whose secretary jumps between the defense department and the pharmaceutical companies and Halliburton the energy company and their subsidiary KBR who feeds the troops.