IRAQ Became Get-Rich-Quick Scheme for...WHOM?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/23/06 at 8:29am

$800 million "missing" from this deal.

How many hundreds of millions went into the hands of Cheney's corrupt and crooked Halliburton colleagues?

How many hundreds of millions went directly to Iran and the insurgents?

Bush lied. Thousands of soldiers died. Tens of thousands of civilians died. Osama survived. Sheik Omar survived. The Taliban thrived. Americans lost their liberty.

And the worst people got rich.

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The former minister Ali Allawi told CBS' "60 Minutes" that $1.2 billion had been allocated from the Iraqi treasury to the defense ministry to buy new weapons. About $400 million was spent on outdated equipment, while the rest of the money was simply stolen, he said.

Allawi said the arms fraud is "one of the biggest thefts in history" and that corrupt former Iraqi officials are now "running around the world hiding and scurrying around."

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CBS: Corrupt arms deals cost Iraq $800M

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/23/06 at 9:10am

War profiteering. Inexcusable. Eisenhower is rolling over in his grave.

[DG]

Posted: 10/23/06 at 9:12am

"Eisenhower is rolling over in his grave."

Would that Bush and Cheney could do the same.
Updated On: 10/23/06 at 09:12 AM

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/23/06 at 11:00am

You've got to be kidding me! And I thought this was a humanitarian mission. This is the last time I put my faith and trust in pixie dust!

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Iraqi gays fear for their lives



Gay Iraqis face death squads
20-October-2006
Fliss Kay

Homosexuals across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, are being targeted and murdered by Islamic militants and the police.

Inhabitants of the Al-Amiriya and Al-Jamia'a neighbourhoods have told of how extremist groups have raped and beheaded gays in the street and also targeted their relatives.

Under Saddam's regime, gays were imprisoned. However, the Iraqi constitution approved by referendum in December 2005, refers to Islam as being "the official religion of the state and a basic source of legislation".

Under Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death. The recent "hunting-down" has received a blessing from one of the highest religious authorities in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

There is concern about the involvement of policemen in criminal acts have also been raised by western officials and Sunni Arab leaders.

Sunnis say the Shia-controlled interior ministry has been infiltrated by Shia militias, such as the Badr Brigades, who allegedly use their uniforms as cover to kidnap, torture and murder.

OutRage!, the gay human rights group, has reported on a fatwa imposed on gays in October 2005.

A website linked to Sistani in the Iranian city of Qom wrote: "The people involved [in homosexuality] should be killed in the worst, most severe way"

Although the text was removed from the website in May 2006, the fatwa has not been officially revoked.

Outrage! has also reported of cases where family members of gay male relatives have been murdered for refusing to hand them over to the militia.



http://pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2786.html Updated On: 10/23/06 at 11:00 AM