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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Straw Man on August 25, 2007, 08:49:16 AM
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I've always thought this "war" was mostly about stealing from the US Treasury. Winning doesn't appear to have ever been the objective. They want constant chaos so they can stay there as long as possible so all of their "friends" (think in the mafia sense) can continue to pilfer the US Treasury. Seems cynical and conspiritorial but then again why the unbelievable treatment of whistler blowers.
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Iraq fraud whistleblowers vilified
Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:59 a.m. PT Aug 25, 2007
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.
Or worse.
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over, that Vance began to wish he had just kept his mouth shut.
He had thought he was doing a good and noble thing when he started telling the FBI about the guns and the land mines and the rocket-launchers all of them being sold for cash, no receipts necessary, he said. He told a federal agent the buyers were Iraqi insurgents, American soldiers, State Department workers, and Iraqi embassy and ministry employees.
The seller, he claimed, was the Iraqi-owned company he worked for, Shield Group Security Co.
It was a Wal-Mart for guns, he says. It was all illegal and everyone knew it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/
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One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.
Or worse.
For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
It's all in the interest of national security.. ::)
This stuff pisses me off..
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So much for whistleblower legislation. :-\