[BOBTHENAILER]

You certainly called for a lot of help in your ping list. Not up to annihilating specious arguments while standing on your own hind legs without backup, huh?

Lame attempt there as well, but I'll play the game, so here I am without back-up.

Let's go back to the question you never bothered to answer. You're plumbing is broken, basement flooded. You gonna call Acme plumbing across town just to show what a shining example of non-partisanship you are, or are you gonna call your best friend, who just happens to be a great plumber you can trust?

Bechtel is probably in the category of your best friend the plunber, notwithstanding Schultz's connection, if it still exists.

I fully realize this issue cuts both ways and I realize the "Creeping Fascism" article was non-partisan as well. Merely pointing out that this is war, and the other side plays a much more murderous game than we do.

Wanna let them win in the name of FAIR PLAY?

FRegards

Bob

[fightu4it]

I was in VN in 67 & 68. Demos were in control up to and incliding 68. There was a construction firm that seemed to have most of the large contracts, RMKBRJ. I never knew what the initials stood for or who the principals were, but someone was sure making a poop load of money. They used to drive the long yellow school buses around Siagon to pick up and drop off workers.

Makes one wonder if they might have had some ties to the democraps.

[NMC EXP]

I fully realize this issue cuts both ways and I realize the "Creeping Fascism" article was non-partisan as well. Merely pointing out that this is war, and the other side plays a much more murderous game than we do.

Well, some common ground after all. People (both r & d) in positions to decide who gets nominated to join the country club or rebuild a country or sell missle technology to the ChiComs generally do these things for their friends and/or campaign contributors. Its just human nature.

Wanna let them win in the name of FAIR PLAY?

You are stuck on this issue. Halliburton and Bechtel have nothing to do with defeating Iraq. They came after the fact to repair the destruction caused by the US ordnance used for the liberation of Iraq.

Ever heard Dwight D. Eisenhower's (republican) speech re: the "military-industrial complex"?

Regards

J.R.