America's military installations are bracing for the next "B.R.A.C. attack". (Base re-alignment and closure) Remember when Dubyuh spoke of "building oil-refineries on old military bases?"... Hmmm?? Methinks this is another "corporate give-away"... at the expense of American taxpayers. One MUST question the advisability of closing Military bases DURING A WAR!! I might seem logical to wait until our troops have returned from Iraq, and been processed through the various V.A. hospitals to start closing their facilities!! It is estimated that Halliburton and other contractors are building as many as FOURTEEN new military bases in Iraq!! They are also building the MOST EXPENSIVE embassy on the planet in Baghdad. Returning vets are ALREADY experiencing inadequate services and funding. Now Bush wants to close the facilities that support them. Is THIS "patriotism"?? Last week, a Cessna flew into "restricted" air-space in Washington D.C. The resultant panic was reminiscent of 'Chicken Little". Screaming people "ran-for-their-lives"; with NO plan or sense of direction; while the Washington D.C. city government WAS NOT EVEN AWARE OF THE INCIDENT UNTIL AFTER IT WAS OVER!! Another FINE example of how the Bush administration has "dropped-the-ball" when it comes to "making America safer"!!Remember about 20 yeras ago, a similar airplane actualy STRUCK the White House?? There was minimal damage, and only the pilot (if I recall corectly) was killed! Al Queda operatives are surely laughing hysterically at our "Homeland Security". Every day, another example surfaces of the incompetance and stupidity of the Bush administration. Neo-Cons have recently begun an attack on a member of the British Parliament, who they claim profited from the Iraq "oil-for-food" program. To date, the ONLY evidence of any "profiteering" which has been found, shows a Houston-Texas oil company receiving illegal shipments of oil, WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE U.S.GOVERNMENT!!!( the British Parliamentarian has testified that American Naval vessels allowed passage of Iraqi oil tankers, loaded with illegal shipments) Is it any wonder that the Cheney "secret energy-policy-meetings" are kept secret?? I would be willing to bet that same "Houston-Texas-based" oil company, (as well as ENRON) were involved with those "policy-meetings"!! Any involvement , by this company, in Cheney's "meetings" would be evidence of a "criminal-conspiracy" to manipulate gas & oil prices. Doesn't this BEG for further inquiry??......Dave
- posted by Dave @ 11:02 AM