Loose cannons

'Free' market at work

"Halliburton ... charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel.. In the latest revelation about the company's oft-criticized performance in Iraq, a Pentagon audit report disclosed Monday showed Halliburton subsidiary KBR spent $82,100 to buy liquefied petroleum gas, better-known as LPG, in Kuwait and then 335 times that number to transport the fuel into violence-ridden Iraq." — Houston Chronicle, March 15.

A vote-winning platform

"There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not." — Emperor George Bush II, March 16.

Tens of thousands of dead Iraqis later

"In a scathing report released Thursday, President Bush's commission on weapons of mass destruction found that America's spy agencies were dead wrong in most of their judgments about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capabilities." — MSNBC, March 31.

Read: They delivered what their masters wanted

"It is hard to deny the conclusion that intelligence analysts worked in an environment that did not encourage skepticism about the conventional wisdom." — excerpts from the report of Emperor Bush's commission on Iraq's WMD.

From Green Left Weekly, April 6, 2005.

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From GLW issue 621