Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $42,285
52%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $645 to reach 53%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: triremepartners

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • There's gold in them there Iraqi hills (Molly Ivins moo-moo barf alert!)

    06/22/2003 2:53:00 PM PDT · by Carthago delenda est · 14 replies · 245+ views
    Creators Syndicate ^ | June 22, 2003 | Molly Ivins
    My, my, my, the great Iraqi Gold Rush is on, and who should be there at the front of the line, right along with Halliburton and Bechtel, but our old friends at WorldCom -- perpetrator of the largest accounting fraud in American history. WorldCom, shortly to become MCI, has been given a contract worth $45 million in the short term to build a wireless phone network in Iraq. I learned via The Associated Press that Washington Technology, a trade newspaper that follows computing-related sales to the U.S. government, "found WorldCom jumped to eighth among all federal technology contractors in 2002,...