Friday, May 30, 2003
Fictional war?
"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Mr Wolfowitz tells the magazine
They come to light, moreover, just two days after Mr Wolfowitz's immediate boss, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, conceded for the first time that the arms might never be found.-Independent
"This could conceivably be the greatest intelligence hoax of all time. I doubt it, but we have to ask," Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the US's House Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Times.-Yahoo
The Justice Department has begun using its expanded counterterrorism powers to seize millions of dollars from foreign banks that do business in the United States, creating tensions with the State Department and some allies.
Officials at the State Department, however, have raised concerns over the practice - in part because most of the seizures have involved fraud and money-laundering investigations that are unrelated to terrorism.-NY Times
The government defended the closed bidding process, citing national security considerations and the emergency nature of the work, which called for a large and experienced contractor.
But Mr Waxman yesterday noted that Halliburton had garnered about $425m in additional Iraq-related projects through Logcap III, the separate army contract won in December 2001. One of the Iraq projects under Logcap III was assigned nearly a year before the war began.-Yahoo
LONDON (AFP) - In the midst of negotiating a steep tax cuts package, the US government shelved a report that showed the United States faces future federal budget deficits of more than 44.2 trillion dollars.-Yahoo
"We like nonfiction, yet we live in fictitious times. We live in a time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape, or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."-Michael Moore
So what's more offensive-a president lying about a blow job, or one lying about war (i.e. death), the economy, etc., etc..
"But I don't give a fuck who they're screwin' in private, I wanna know who they're screwin' in public"-Spearhead
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