The 10 Worst Post-9/11 Military Contracting Boondoggles
Since 9/11, America's wars haven't brought victories, but have spawned countless scandals, scams and boondoggles. Here are the 10 worst.
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The cost in money and lives is beyond reason. Maybe we should ask the BUSH/CHENEY gang: was it worth it and who benefitted the most from their "policies"??
America: What Happened?? ( without blaming 9-11)
America: A Sunset Empire
The rise and decline of the American Empire
America: A Sunset Empire
........How did you allow yourself to deteriorate so much and surrender the very principles on which you were built???
You're on a roll today aren't you?![]()
America: What Happened?? ( without blaming 9-11)
America: A Sunset Empire
The rise and decline of the American Empire
America: A Sunset Empire
........How did you allow yourself to deteriorate so much and surrender the very principles on which you were built???
why, after a whole ten years, hasn`t our media yet asked important questions surrounding this event?? it`s as if all `reasoning` has been blindly accepted as the truth. i feel dirty and taken on this anniversary.
Indeed. All the sensational "remembering" is not making it any better. Don't think we can count on the media to ask the difficult questions........as it reports selectively chosen information. IF any further truths are to ever emerge , it will be because the people themselves gain the courage to ask the questions. As it stands, most are too afraid of being branded "unpatriotic" , "unamerican" ( as if anyone knows what "american " is anymore) so they remain quiet .....
Or some major leaks end up with Wikileaks and then verified and made public. Why do you think the USG hates Assange so much?? His information is a threat to them. ( at least percieved as such). Yet.....he is doing what ALL solid democracies are supposed to do. Provide transparency and information to ;keep the population informed.
Speaking of Assange........rather surprised he has not been politically assassinated yet. Isn't that how the US deals with its enemies now?? But he might have them over the proverbial barrel......as he indicated : If anything should mysteriously happen to him the info that would be immediately released would be devestating. No need to call that "extortion" It is just good business. Maybe if Dr. Kelly had something like that in place , he would still be alive.
The number of nasty "deaths" and actions that have been taken since that day .....is staggaring , while painting a sordid picture of what Imperialism has become.
What an oddly familiar name and attitude....why, after a whole ten years, hasn`t our media yet asked important questions surrounding this event?? it`s as if all `reasoning` has been blindly accepted as the truth. i feel dirty and taken on this anniversary.
All the "remembering" is because 3,000 innocent people died in an attack perpetrated by a bunch of lunatic followers of a medieval death cult called Islam.
NO society can carry on its foreign affairs completely in the open. Only a complete drooling moron would think that is the way things are supposed to be.
The United States is the first NON Imperial superpower.
You do know what "imperial" means, don't you? Actually I don't think you do......
I have no patience with apologists for the enemies of western civilization.......
To defend Islamists and murderers that would see you enslaved in a millisecond requires a level of stupidity beyond my comprehension.
I have no patience for it.....especially today.
I support you completely, I agree with you completely, all of this blatting about conspiracies etc., is truly
overlooking the 3000 people who died, at the hands of these lunatics.
lets remember them, that is important right now.
It's just like the fruit loops that deny the holocaust, it's a desecration of the survivors, who suffered horribly while all the time seeing all the details of what actually happened. Not only are they ignorant but they are cruel. 8O
Ya, the imaginary world that people like you, talloola, and colpy live in. The imaginary world where the death of 3000 people by a small group of nutcases, thugs, criminals, justify's the destruction of 2 countries and the deaths of 10's of thousands of innocent people just for your and the wests zealous revenge.
This is not support for the criminals, this is pointing out the pot calling the kettle black.
the 3000 people who died need to be remembered on this anniversary, and their relatives and friends,
irrespective of anything else, or what anyone believes or thinks happened, at this time, those
opinions don't really matter, the respect for the dead, and how they were killed, and the fact that
they haven't lived this last ten years like we all have, is a shame, they were all innocent,
didn't deserve to die.
If you want to give respect to any others who have died anywhere in the world on an anniversary of their
deaths, feel free to do so, but not tomorrow.
yes, all lives lost is tragic, in afghanistan and iraq and kuwait and in many other places, I agree.
While we are remembering...........WHO is remembering the ONE AND ONE HALF MILLION IRAQIS that the US slaughtered........with intent , motivation (not exactly one........as it kept changing from reason to reason) and obvious means?? And how about the innocent AFghans ( so euphamistically called " casualties of war" ) Pakistan......(oh those happy drones doing their deadly bit ....... because US lives are so much more important than anyone else on the planet )
IF you think that anyone defends terrorism OF ANY KIND.....be it verbal (on here ) or something more dastardly and deadly .....then it is you that has things very confused.
IF we don't start looking at all sides in order to get a clearer picture of that event and consider all contributing factors......we might as well bury our heads like the ostriches that some prefer to be.
Many cannot see. And that is understandable. But many more WILL NOT see...and that is unpardonable. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Ya, the imaginary world that people like you, talloola, and colpy live in. The imaginary world where the death of 3000 people by a small group of nutcases, thugs, criminals, justify's the destruction of 2 countries and the deaths of 10's of thousands of innocent people just for your and the wests zealous revenge.
This is not support for the criminals, this is pointing out the pot calling the kettle black.
Anyone who thinks this was not a set up is retarded.
Any engeneer, steel worker or construction worker knows building's don't
go down like that even if you had launched a missile or something
even bigger and stronger then a plane.
War sucks, people die.
But without the willingness on the part of our civilization to go to war with those that attack us, we would all be goose-stepping and yelling Heil Hitler at each other. Or we'd all be slave labour on collective farms.....or actually, we'd still be serfs working the land for the lord of the manor.
How does one get to adulthood and understand so very little about human nature and human history???????
When you oppose retaliation, when you pretend terrorists were not responsible for 9-11 in the face of all evidence, when you consistently condemn our friends and allies with nonsense, stupidity and maliciousness, when you do everything ion your power to undermine the effort to fight terror, THEN YOU ARE SUPPORTING TERRORISTS.
Deal with it.
First of all, I have NEVER said 9-11 justified Iraq. Saddam being an idiot and trying to convince the world (meaning Iran) that he held WMD..........while ignoring the cease-fire signed in 1991.....justified Iraq.
The Taliban could have turned over bin Laden. They did not. THEY are responsible for the subsequent war. What the Hell did they expect????
I am sickened today by the absolute head-stuck-up- your own arse stupidity inherent in our society, as revealed by those that would NOT retaliate for an attack that killed more people than Pearl Harbour........
And tell me, please, carefully explain to me, how you could POSSIBLY destroy the Taliban's Afghanistan???????????? The fricken place was ALREADY hell on earth.