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9. they had two goals from the onset .....

Reply to moondust (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:00 PM

Aug 2014

.... steal as much oil as possible as they protected the oil production infrastructure and
for Dick Cheney, KBR, Blackwater, the Lincoln Group, Bechtel, Haliburton, and other groups
and persons to steal and or make as much money as possible. And in both cases they were
very successful and they sure knew what they were doing in thoses operations. Cost plus no bid
contracts what could go wrong?

Shit, they loaded $12 billion in cash into helicopters and that money just "went missing."

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Mother Jones: Remember When Paul Wolfowitz Said Not to Worry About Sectarian Violence in Iraq? [View all] Botany Aug 2014 OP

Dont forget Richard Perle randys1 Aug 2014 #1

And wonderful Ari LiberalArkie Aug 2014 #10

And now blame it all on Obama. moondust Aug 2014 #2

"before these fools lit the fuse" Botany Aug 2014 #4

This entire mess is the creation of ignorant ReTHUG goons and their neo-con operatives malaise Aug 2014 #3

w did not know that their was a difference between Shi and Sunni Muslims less then 2 months .... Botany Aug 2014 #5

They had no idea what they were doing. moondust Aug 2014 #7

they had two goals from the onset ..... Botany Aug 2014 #9

this. nt navarth Aug 2014 #17

I'll never forget that malaise Aug 2014 #32

They had no idea what they were doing, nor did they care. colorado_ufo Aug 2014 #12

The DID know. They just didn't care. Well they only cared about the profits to be made. cui bono Aug 2014 #29

But Cheney did. W was just a tool. cui bono Aug 2014 #28

Seriously they have fucked up the entire planet malaise Aug 2014 #30

Actually, it's worse than that. The absolutely DID know what they were doing. cui bono Aug 2014 #27

I remember his comb Capt. Obvious Aug 2014 #6

If there were any cosmic justice hifiguy Aug 2014 #8

Bush and his cronies onecaliberal Aug 2014 #11

Bush Wars dem1926 Aug 2014 #13

Not socialist malaise Aug 2014 #31

I remember when a RW think tank on CNNI admitted the truth. lebkuchen Aug 2014 #14

He also stated to Congress that it would pay for itself and our cost would shraby Aug 2014 #15

Yes, because that was the aim all along. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #16

exactly. And in those terms we certainly "won". bbgrunt Aug 2014 #25

+1 woo me with science Aug 2014 #33

i remember georgee saying it would cost 78 million. he was off by how much? pansypoo53219 Aug 2014 #18

Ideologues like Wolfowitz don't believe in "objective reality" deutsey Aug 2014 #19

Wolfie, quit lying!! lark Aug 2014 #20

K&R 2banon Aug 2014 #21

He's part of the PNAC,"we need a Pearl Harbor type event" neocons, who should actually be Cleita Aug 2014 #22

That Whole Chickenhawk Cabal Was Wrong About Most Everything colsohlibgal Aug 2014 #23

I also remember Dittoheads predicting gas at 50� a gallon. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #24

K&R nt redqueen Aug 2014 #26