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		<title>By: Amicus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4092270</link>
		<dc:creator>Amicus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These estimates are too low.

Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://bootstrappingas.blogspot.com/#GWOT%20Costs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These estimates are too low.</p>
<p>Try <a href="http://bootstrappingas.blogspot.com/#GWOT%20Costs" rel="nofollow">these</a>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4092270', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JT</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4089017</link>
		<dc:creator>JT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Briseadh na Faire:

This is not a communistic country. We don&#039;t redistribute wealth--past social experiments in other countries, i.e., the Soviet Union and all its satellite countries, illustrate perfectly well why this doesn&#039;t work.

Will you, and your ilk, quit going through life looking for handouts? &lt;strong&gt;Try standing on your own two feet rather than looking to others to support your lifestyle.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Briseadh na Faire:</p>
<p>This is not a communistic country. We don&#8217;t redistribute wealth&#8211;past social experiments in other countries, i.e., the Soviet Union and all its satellite countries, illustrate perfectly well why this doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>Will you, and your ilk, quit going through life looking for handouts? <strong>Try standing on your own two feet rather than looking to others to support your lifestyle.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4089017', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JT</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4089015</link>
		<dc:creator>JT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;You can&#039;t put a price on freedom.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>You can&#8217;t put a price on freedom.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4089015', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Politics50</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088598</link>
		<dc:creator>Politics50</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The conservative party is not very conservative these days.  Besides the security and moral consequences or the Iraq debacle, is the loss of wealth and deficit spending.   This gross misuse of our nations fiscal resources is beyond comprehension. 

When do we stop calling the Republican party &quot;conservatives&quot;?

http://politics50.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The conservative party is not very conservative these days.  Besides the security and moral consequences or the Iraq debacle, is the loss of wealth and deficit spending.   This gross misuse of our nations fiscal resources is beyond comprehension. </p>
<p>When do we stop calling the Republican party &#8220;conservatives&#8221;?</p>
<p><a href="http://politics50.com" rel="nofollow">http://politics50.com</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088598', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jericho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088428</link>
		<dc:creator>Jericho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People, people, as Bush always says: money is not important, the real things in life are free.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People, people, as Bush always says: money is not important, the real things in life are free.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088428', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lescoeurs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088388</link>
		<dc:creator>Lescoeurs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ZaCh....I have never been one to say we are better than any other Nation or culture.  That said, what has always set America apart is that we have cared about our homeless and poor.  That is no longer the case.  Despite these idiot, ignorant Born Again twits, we are no longer a Christian Nation because we don&#039;t care about those who haven&#039;t, by accident, been born with food to eat and a roof over their head.
&quot;News Anchors &quot;  ??????? Me ????? I hate them.  They have sold their souls for LOTS of cash.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ZaCh&#8230;.I have never been one to say we are better than any other Nation or culture.  That said, what has always set America apart is that we have cared about our homeless and poor.  That is no longer the case.  Despite these idiot, ignorant Born Again twits, we are no longer a Christian Nation because we don&#8217;t care about those who haven&#8217;t, by accident, been born with food to eat and a roof over their head.<br />
&#8220;News Anchors &#8221;  ??????? Me ????? I hate them.  They have sold their souls for LOTS of cash.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088388', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: tombaker</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088338</link>
		<dc:creator>tombaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ZaCh - wtf are you even talking about?

so you wouldn&#039;t mind being homeless here? wouldn&#039;t care if your cousins kids were out on the street?

YOU move to the UK, so you can find out how functioning Democracies are supposed to operate - with accountability.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ZaCh &#8211; wtf are you even talking about?</p>
<p>so you wouldn&#8217;t mind being homeless here? wouldn&#8217;t care if your cousins kids were out on the street?</p>
<p>YOU move to the UK, so you can find out how functioning Democracies are supposed to operate &#8211; with accountability.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088338', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ll-ZaCh-ll</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088303</link>
		<dc:creator>ll-ZaCh-ll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I hate to ever feel like a victim, but this Administration has taken us hostage. Nothing we say, do, argue, cajole. No amount of letters to Congressmen, Senators, the WH, to the Editor changes the course of our Nation. We have been kidnapped by a group of incompetent lunatics and the $500,000 per day is a fraction of what it is costing the Country and the World.&quot;

A. maybe nobody agree&#039;s with you and you agree with new anchors on tv.

B. we support our allies and they rely on us as an allie to help them.

{Choose 1 and move to the UK if u hate it here&quot;Freedom&quot; as you say}

(our homeless dont live as bad as others in south america &amp; africa.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I hate to ever feel like a victim, but this Administration has taken us hostage. Nothing we say, do, argue, cajole. No amount of letters to Congressmen, Senators, the WH, to the Editor changes the course of our Nation. We have been kidnapped by a group of incompetent lunatics and the $500,000 per day is a fraction of what it is costing the Country and the World.&#8221;</p>
<p>A. maybe nobody agree&#8217;s with you and you agree with new anchors on tv.</p>
<p>B. we support our allies and they rely on us as an allie to help them.</p>
<p>{Choose 1 and move to the UK if u hate it here&#8221;Freedom&#8221; as you say}</p>
<p>(our homeless dont live as bad as others in south america &amp; africa.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088303', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lescoeurs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lescoeurs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hate to ever feel like a victim, but this Administration has taken us hostage.  Nothing we say, do, argue, cajole.  No amount of letters to Congressmen, Senators, the WH, to the Editor changes the course of our Nation.  We have been kidnapped by a group of incompetent lunatics and the $500,000 per day is a fraction of what it is costing the Country and the World.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate to ever feel like a victim, but this Administration has taken us hostage.  Nothing we say, do, argue, cajole.  No amount of letters to Congressmen, Senators, the WH, to the Editor changes the course of our Nation.  We have been kidnapped by a group of incompetent lunatics and the $500,000 per day is a fraction of what it is costing the Country and the World.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088257', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: alphainfinityomega</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088214</link>
		<dc:creator>alphainfinityomega</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great comments !
I gave quite a few of you recommendations.

&lt;strong&gt;âˆž&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comments !<br />
I gave quite a few of you recommendations.</p>
<p><strong>âˆž</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088214', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kiki</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088168</link>
		<dc:creator>Kiki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If this isn&#039;t the final nail in the coffin of &quot;compassionate conservatism&quot;, I don&#039;t know what is.

Why do Republicans hate children?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If this isn&#8217;t the final nail in the coffin of &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221;, I don&#8217;t know what is.</p>
<p>Why do Republicans hate children?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088168', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: erock</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4088124</link>
		<dc:creator>erock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>or put another wayâ€¦every American (man women and child) shells out about $1000 a year for the Iraq war. Not enough to retire on, but enough to p*ss us off. Especially since itâ€™s going on the National Credit Card for our kids to pay off.

Comment by Badger â€” September 22, 2007 @ 6:41 pm

And yet it still pales in comparison to the human cost.  What an absolute waste.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>or put another wayâ€¦every American (man women and child) shells out about $1000 a year for the Iraq war. Not enough to retire on, but enough to p*ss us off. Especially since itâ€™s going on the National Credit Card for our kids to pay off.</p>
<p>Comment by Badger â€” September 22, 2007 @ 6:41 pm</p>
<p>And yet it still pales in comparison to the human cost.  What an absolute waste.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4088124', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Badger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4087877</link>
		<dc:creator>Badger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>60 min X24 hrs X 365 days = 525 600 minutes in a year

525600 minutes X  $500,000 = $ 262.8 Billion  a year spent in Iraq
300 million Americans X 90% = 270 million Americans 

262.8 billion/270 million = $973

or put another way...every American (man women and child) shells out about $1000 a year for the Iraq war.   Not enough to retire on,  but enough to p*ss  us off. Especially since it&#039;s going on the National Credit Card for our kids to pay off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>60 min X24 hrs X 365 days = 525 600 minutes in a year</p>
<p>525600 minutes X  $500,000 = $ 262.8 Billion  a year spent in Iraq<br />
300 million Americans X 90% = 270 million Americans </p>
<p>262.8 billion/270 million = $973</p>
<p>or put another way&#8230;every American (man women and child) shells out about $1000 a year for the Iraq war.   Not enough to retire on,  but enough to p*ss  us off. Especially since it&#8217;s going on the National Credit Card for our kids to pay off.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087877', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4087874</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder what each moment of the Bush-Cheney stolen administration has cost the United States in its precious youth, treasure, prestige, and moral authority?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder what each moment of the Bush-Cheney stolen administration has cost the United States in its precious youth, treasure, prestige, and moral authority?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087874', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Briseadh na Faire</title>
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		<dc:creator>Briseadh na Faire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What if the government took this same amount of money, $500,000 per minute and distributed it, one minute&#039;s worth each, to the bottom 90% of the country, ranked by wealth, then required the recipients to invest that money?

Each man, woman and child would have $500,000 to invest. At a 5% rate of return, each man, woman and child would be guaranteed a minimum of $2,000 per month, for the rest of his/her life.

Conversely, the government could invest the funds and distribute the return, guaranteeing each man, woman and child a living wage, and eliminating poverty in the U.S. After two years, everyone would be middle class or better, economically, and further investment into the program would only be needed to the extent the birth rate exceeds the death rate.

Yes, we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; solve the nation&#039;s economic ills, if we wanted to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if the government took this same amount of money, $500,000 per minute and distributed it, one minute&#8217;s worth each, to the bottom 90% of the country, ranked by wealth, then required the recipients to invest that money?</p>
<p>Each man, woman and child would have $500,000 to invest. At a 5% rate of return, each man, woman and child would be guaranteed a minimum of $2,000 per month, for the rest of his/her life.</p>
<p>Conversely, the government could invest the funds and distribute the return, guaranteeing each man, woman and child a living wage, and eliminating poverty in the U.S. After two years, everyone would be middle class or better, economically, and further investment into the program would only be needed to the extent the birth rate exceeds the death rate.</p>
<p>Yes, we <em>could</em> solve the nation&#8217;s economic ills, if we wanted to.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087866', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Chocolate Jesus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4087850</link>
		<dc:creator>Chocolate Jesus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;Seriously, the Private Contractors are Bushâ€™s Achilles Heel. 

I agree... sucks people you like and I arent calling the shots in congress.
These guys need to be buried in Qui Tam lawsuits....

b..bb...u..t... isnt half a million dollars a second worth it, to give the iraqis a chance to maybe have a jeffersonian democracy 30 years from now?


and remember folks.. this half a million per second spent it half a million dollars EARNED for some of bush&#039;s scumbags friends</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;Seriously, the Private Contractors are Bushâ€™s Achilles Heel. </p>
<p>I agree&#8230; sucks people you like and I arent calling the shots in congress.<br />
These guys need to be buried in Qui Tam lawsuits&#8230;.</p>
<p>b..bb&#8230;u..t&#8230; isnt half a million dollars a second worth it, to give the iraqis a chance to maybe have a jeffersonian democracy 30 years from now?</p>
<p>and remember folks.. this half a million per second spent it half a million dollars EARNED for some of bush&#8217;s scumbags friends<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087850', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/22/500000-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4087777</link>
		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And private contractors like Blackwater arenâ€™t winning any friends among the Iraqi people.

Comment by Badger â€” September 22, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

Seems to me the Bush Admin is using the military as a front for the Blackwater goon squads.  Charming.  We were sold &quot;the surge&quot; as necessary to stabilizing the country, and all along they&#039;ve had this private army over there that accounts to no one but them, and they STILL can&#039;t control things over there.  Or maybe the Blackwaters are behind alot of the violence, trying to terrorize the country into doing what their told and signing the oil contracts.

The more we learn, the uglier it gets.  The karma the Bush Admin is building up is staggeringly nasty.  I shudder for the future of the country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And private contractors like Blackwater arenâ€™t winning any friends among the Iraqi people.</p>
<p>Comment by Badger â€” September 22, 2007 @ 3:37 pm</p>
<p>Seems to me the Bush Admin is using the military as a front for the Blackwater goon squads.  Charming.  We were sold &#8220;the surge&#8221; as necessary to stabilizing the country, and all along they&#8217;ve had this private army over there that accounts to no one but them, and they STILL can&#8217;t control things over there.  Or maybe the Blackwaters are behind alot of the violence, trying to terrorize the country into doing what their told and signing the oil contracts.</p>
<p>The more we learn, the uglier it gets.  The karma the Bush Admin is building up is staggeringly nasty.  I shudder for the future of the country.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087777', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Badger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Badger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if the $6 million was from contracts inadvertently awarded to companies run by Democrats?

Or Al Qaeda.;)

 Seriously, the Private Contractors are Bush&#039;s Achilles  Heel.  I don&#039;t know why Congressional oversite and hearings  hasn&#039;t blasted this record all over the daily news.  Even War supporters can&#039;t be happy with graft and looting of the war effort.  And private contractors like Blackwater aren&#039;t winning any friends among the Iraqi people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if the $6 million was from contracts inadvertently awarded to companies run by Democrats?</p>
<p>Or Al Qaeda.;)</p>
<p> Seriously, the Private Contractors are Bush&#8217;s Achilles  Heel.  I don&#8217;t know why Congressional oversite and hearings  hasn&#8217;t blasted this record all over the daily news.  Even War supporters can&#8217;t be happy with graft and looting of the war effort.  And private contractors like Blackwater aren&#8217;t winning any friends among the Iraqi people.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087775', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Briseadh na Faire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Badger, I wonder if the $6 million was from contracts inadvertently awarded to companies run by Democrats?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Badger, I wonder if the $6 million was from contracts inadvertently awarded to companies run by Democrats?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087774', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Badger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Badger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What the Bush administration has created in Iraq is a sort of paradise of perverted capitalism, where revenues are forcibly extracted from the customer by the state, and obscene profits are handed out not by the market but by an unaccountable government bureaucÂ­racy.
The Bush administration&#039;s lack of interest in recovering stolen funds is one of the great scandals of the war. The White House has failed to litigate a single case against a contractor under the False Claims Act and has not sued anybody for breach of contract
In nearly five years of some of the worst graft and looting in American history, the administration has recovered less than $6 million.
 
from &quot;the Great Iraq Swindle&quot; in Rolling Stone Magazine</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What the Bush administration has created in Iraq is a sort of paradise of perverted capitalism, where revenues are forcibly extracted from the customer by the state, and obscene profits are handed out not by the market but by an unaccountable government bureaucÂ­racy.<br />
The Bush administration&#8217;s lack of interest in recovering stolen funds is one of the great scandals of the war. The White House has failed to litigate a single case against a contractor under the False Claims Act and has not sued anybody for breach of contract<br />
In nearly five years of some of the worst graft and looting in American history, the administration has recovered less than $6 million.</p>
<p>from &#8220;the Great Iraq Swindle&#8221; in Rolling Stone Magazine<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4087768', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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