December 29th 2006...Modern America...Gotham City...
Do You Still Believe In Angels?
Even In A realm where we find...
Criminals Pardoning Other Criminals &
Then Also Executing Other Criminals...
Thus Evil criminals killing not only other criminals
but many other innocent non involved People...
And They Thus Say It comes in Three's.. so it be...
The Ultimate dictator TurkMan-Then "Jerry-rig Me A Pardon" Ford...
& now Sadamned It On Down To Hell HueS-Sinsain...
Thus The Crow doth Still caw caw caw Some more
Forth That Still sacred Ancient Corvine Warning Meassge...
That So...
Like Pontius Pilate & The Ancient Romans, We americans Shall Now Try & Wash &
Thus Cleanse away all thy involve-ment In The Whole matter At hand...
While all the while thus...
Trying still To cleanse Our Red White & Blue Blood
Stained Evil Soiled Hands In any Of Their Ill Sordid involements.
& Thus By now handing Sadamned Over To His Own Shia-Arab enemies
& thus knowing Them, That Thy would Surely quickly execute Him
We Will still Now Try Harder As we must While all The While
We Are sinking deeper Only To be executed also WithIn The
Bowels Slapped Deep Within The Sacred Fountain Of Sweet Refreashing Truth>
& To Thus...
Try Once more "Washing Clean Away" Pontius Pilate style
With All Thy Fet-rid Sins From Within Still hanging forth Themselves
So shall also be Brought Forth out from The Divine refreashing waters
Within The Realms Of Forgiveness & Transformation.
So Thus...
Enter Now Into The Twisted Realms Of Tainted Truth Ringing Forth
Of Those Who's Murderous Twists Of Truth For Their Own Gain &
Rights Tran-sends All Truth-Justice-Honor & Decency...
So Welcome Once Again All You
Passionsword Arena-fans Out There To...
A Gathering of Crows
One crow for sorrow,
Two crows for joy,
Three crows for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five crows for silver,
Six crows for gold,
Seven crows for a secret never to be told.
Thus We still...
To kill Or Not To Kill... That is The aquestion?
Thus The Spectacle Of spectacles must So Be Told...
In This Arena Grand Journey Enterprise Release Tale Of tales...
Now That "That Ol' Line backer "Jerry Rig Me A Pardon" Ford Is Dead...
& Then They Decided To Supposedly Hang SaDDamned At That More Or Less
Same Eulogy Time & Space Remembrance code...Now Salute...
But It still IS Good To Be Having That Grand-Americano salute...
Celeratory salute please There Vernon...107 & counting More
sadly Now In The coming months...And They look back & see
The Palestinian issue Now At out Of hand Needs...sadly All suffer...
As Prime Mentalities Like saddamned & Others Block The Flow...
Like A Bogus Oily War With A Bogus Trial & Execution
Plus No Weapons Of Mass Destruction War With An
Evil Dictator Saddamn That you Helped Set Up In
The First Place With The Chemicals To Help Fight The Iranians.
The cacophony of caws in one area rendered senior citizens sleepless and distraught. And then, of course, there was this weird feeling of impending doom about it all. Not to mention the constant media stories about the West Nile virus – carried, it was believed by these legendary evil birds.
So...The cacophony of lies Must Be Told...
Right AmbassaDoor Al-IstraBadi...So As Both Now See The ...
Caw Caw As The Crow Doth Fly & Caw Within The Endless
UpComing Killing Fields Reflected In A Passing
Glass's Mirrored Image Of Who Hath Truly Murdered Whom...
Who..."As the crow flies" Truly Knows...In The Real Deal
Bottom Line "In The Know" Know Yet!!!
Or Still UnBrain Washed-Un Brain Challanged Or
Still Un Brain "In The rain" Dead Know not who Nor Nothing
Don't Bring Me In The Deal Double Deal...
Thus The Sacred Need For A "As the crow flies"
Fair & Square Liberty's Passionsword Arena Of
Independent Centist Green Gladiators...
For Why Not Now...Let There Be Light...
Thus....
"As the crow flies" is a colloquial term used to describe the most direct route between two points on the Earth. It is most often used to differentiate distance along this route from that along a less direct route, such as a road or railroad, and is generally the same as the great circle route. Some people use the variation "by the crow flies".!!!
Getting It Yet There In The "Caw Caw
But Don't Caw On Me" Know Yet!
For Perhaps If we're as smart as we think we are,
perhaps we need to keep an even closer eye on those
clever old crows.
So Thus Remember Though Thus They Say...
"According to the international conventions,
it is forbidden to hand a prisoner of war to his adversary."
But It Is Also Illegal To Pardon Criminals Without A Trial First!
Thus The Appointed Non Elected President Of The Past Did Just
Illegally & UnConstitutionally Do Just That!!! How bogus!!
How Much More Illegal Unconstitutional Wrongs Must Be Delt Forth
To Bogusly Try To ReJustify Percieved Rights Or Wrongs!
On Both & All Sides Of This evil Human Equation!
So Logic DicTates That All Good Reason Shall Be Set Aside
For Those Selfish Instant Gratificational wrong Reasons
That Are Now Dictating The Present Regime & It's Dictates.
It's Sickening Of How all These caco-phony-S of lies
Can Then Still Go In This Bogus Fashion.
So who Really Is The Bigger Liar & Murderer Here!
Talk About Bogus...How's This For A Bogus Poll Survey By
the new French Fraud international broadcaster France 24
and Novartis/Harris Interactive...Bogus-sly Done For Sure!
Now On To Nightmare's...& The American One Being Over After The Illegal Pardon & Senaturd Ted Bogus Kennedy's AquiE-sing To It...The Criminal Himself!!
What Bogus governing By Evil Bogus Liars. Thus...
The American Nightmare Is Still An OnGoing
Continual Criminal "Fright Night" Spectacular...
Just As Was The Ancient Babylon-Egypt-Greece-Roman
Spectacle Of spectacles Was An Is Now As Us...
Modern Babylonian-New roman style (i.e. american)
The Modern day Grand Empires Of Empires...
All Give Hail!
But Italia & Prodi Have made A Good Warning
About This Issue... So...Better Take Creed & Better Take Heed...
"The decision to condemn Saddam to death has in itself more risk of negative effects than positive for the stabilization of the country. I don't believe that the execution of Saddam will help even minimally the pacification of the country," said Prodi, who defeated Bush's close ally Silvio Berlusconi last April, and withdrew Italian troops from Iraq.
So The Grand question Is Not Whether We Are going To
Kill sagdamit Or Not...But The Real Deal Bottom Line
24 Billion Dollar Question Is
How Many More After Him Must Then Die...
As the Crow Flies (origin) - When lost or unsure of their position in coastal waters, ships would release a caged crow. The crow would fly straight towards the nearest land thus giving the vessel some sort of a navigational fix. The tallest lookout platform on a ship came to be know as the crow's nest.
Signed Just Sadly, Gladly and Tragically
At the PassionSwords Blades Edge!
WE Bitter Over Bitter-Sweet Gladiators
Of the Society of the Sacred PassionsWord
"Alone of Angels Death has no love for gifts,
Libation helps you not, nor sacrifice.
He has no altar, and hears no hymns;
From him alone Persuasion stands apart."
Aeschylus (525-465 B.C.) "Niobe"
@The Centrist Arena of Gladiators 2000-2006, are
# Of the Society Of The Sacred Sword, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of $ Grand Journey Enterprise Release LTD
a privately-held, Investigative Research Source
of Internet Conspiracy Theory%.
So Would Ya Believe It's Time Once Again...
To Fade Now Into The Crow Doth Caw Within
The Endless UpComing Killing Fields Reflected
In A Passing Glass's Mirrored Image Of
Who Hath Truly Murdered Who & For What So CAlled
JustiFrieD ReaSOnS & As Always Back In Black
Fear Not Liberty's Future Star Trekers & Welcome Earth Humans To A 2001 Time-Space Odyssey Adventure in a Returned Grand Journey Enterprise Release Passionsword Arena Gladiator Roundtable Blood Sport Out From The Grave Brought Forth, Created, Envisioned & Destined To Come True As Sweet Lady Liberty's Voice Divine Dream Calls Out From The Heavens Above Awakening into the Great Matrix-Vortex Paradigm Shift Unto the Ends of the Cosmic-Karmic Universal Divine Distance & Beyond
Friday, December 29, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Enter A Fistful Of Dollars Arena Of Many Beautiful Experiences Amist The Coming WhiteWash Everything In Sight Of "Who Knew What" ExCape-Gate Plights
Giving A Certain Few Individuals Too Much
Power & Control Over Others Is A Very Dangerous
Thing To Do & Leads To Massive Abuse, Torture,
And Many Other Very Ugly Nasty Evil Wrongs.
It Has Truly Set A Horrible Precedent To Follow.
And Then Not Setting Up The Correct Checks & Balances
In Place To Keep These Few Individuals In Check & Balance
Is Also Just As Horrible & Wrong. And Then Not To Have The
Correct Mechanicisms In Order To Be Able To Immediatly Remove
From Power & Punish Those Who Have Done These Horrible Things
Is Truly An Abomination & A Blight On Our Civilization & Laws.
This Is Sadly The Sick Legacy Left By
This Latest Adminstration & Those In Power ElseWhere
And On A Whole Generation Of "ME Generation Fools"!
Thus The Same Old Song & Dance
To The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric
By The Same Evil Dirty Old Men!!!
But Ehi...Ciao...Ciao...Amigos Anyway...
Il Mio Nome E Nessune (My Name Is Nobody)
And All I Have To Say Is...
"Congratulations I'm Sorry" But...Ha Ha Ha...
It Truly Has Something To Do With Death.
& We Surely & Gladly Did Tell & Warn Ya All So...
A Long Ago...Now Didn't We There Now...
So Ready To "Go Off & Kill Some More" There HellBenders...
& Thus It's The Same Old Song & Dance Of...
Either You'll Get "Very Rich Or Very Dead" Over Here
So...Come & See For Yourself Once Again Crusader
Spaghetti Bowl Western Blood & Guts Tale Of Tales
HellBender Of All Previous HellBending Divine Amigos...
Right There General-Colonel-Major...
Remember...You Where All Very Pre-Warned...
So...Also Still Looking For A Convenient
EX-Scape Gate Scapegoat There…"Blondie".
Well Well...
Enter Now Once Again A Fistful Of Dollars Arena
Of Many Beautiful Experiences Amidst The Coming
WhiteWash Everything In Sight Of..."Who Knew What"
Ex-scape-Gate Plights... Getting Yet Still After All
These Years Our Gladiator Arena "Come & See" Fights.
Plus Who Stole & MisAllocated What, When & Where...
& On Who's So Called Sacred Honored WATCH>>>>Some Watch!!!
At Least Ted Kennedy Voted Against This Rotten War From The Start
We Glads Gladly Give The Ol' Champion Credit For That...
The plot of the Epic involves The Americani Infidels as the Gunmen (referred to as "Joe" twice by both Saudi Arabians & Kuwaitis) who arrive in a small country on the frontier (Anbar Province) and plays the country's two rival factions, the Shia and the Sunni, against each other in order to make money off both sides and save a misguided evil perceived notion of Democracy caught in the crossfire.
So Isn't It A Very Beautiful Experience To Have
The capabilities & The Perception To Be Able To
Set_Up Many Other Very Beautiful Experiences For
Others World-Wide & Have The Divine Capabilities,
The Will & Vision, Plus The Know-How To Have Them
Then Carried On Through Correctly & Thus Make It
Supposedly What You Have Intended It All From The Start To Be...
A Very Beautiful Experience...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Then To Blow It All In...
Lies, Hypocrisy, Peculation, Greed, Fraud & Out Right Evil...Way To Go...
And You All Have The Balls & Guts To Talk About Generational Legacy.
Sheesh...How Utterly BOgus...What A Fraudulent Legacy Of Lies
Getting It Yet There Blondie!!! Much More On The Way...
And The Hard Trail Is About To Get Real Baxter & Rojo Nasty Too Boot!!!
Well Lets Just Come & See Now The Real Deal Bottom Line In This All
Including All The Lies Told To Try And Cover The Real Deal Truth That’s
About To Try & Get A Dick Cheney’ WhiteWash Everything In Sight
Deep Cleansing Ream Job Bank Roll Over Rhetoric…
Getting It Yet There Arena Fan...The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric!
President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world.
Some of the administration's allies in the war against terrorism -- including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan -- are ranked by the State Department as among the worst human rights abusers. The president has proudly proclaimed his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin while remaining largely silent about Putin's dismantling of democratic institutions in the past four years. The administration, eager to enlist China as an ally in the effort to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, has played down human rights concerns there, as well.
Bush's speech "brought to a high level the gap between the rhetoric and reality in U.S. foreign policy," said Thomas Carothers, co-author of a new book, "Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East."
"The rhetoric is seamless, but the policy is very muddled. In fact, the war on terrorism has pushed the U.S. to be friendlier with nondemocratic regimes," said Carothers, director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Many Don't Mind The Sacrifices As Long As Certain Conditions Are Met...
Sadly & Tragically Many To Most Have Thus Not Been Met!
Some Crusader Conquerers...
So This Goes Out To The Ol'Dickster &
His Evil BushWackers & SenatUrd Buddies...
Reining in Military Contractors
By Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü
Special to washingtonpost.com's Think Tank Town
Thursday, December 7, 2006; 12:00 AM
It's unlikely that many Americans know Stewart W. Bowen Jr. They should. As the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), Mr. Bowen has helped save taxpayers billions of dollars. His audits of reconstruction contracts have turned up waste, mismanagement and fraud; and his investigations led to four criminal convictions and embarrassed excuses from the U.S. government's biggest military contractors.
Yet, for all his good work, some in Congress are not terribly appreciative. On the eve of recent mid-term elections, an amendment, buried deep within a military authorization bill, closed down Bowen's office. After media outrage, congressional leaders scurried to give his job back. But, the symbolism of this surreptitious effort is rich -- after three and half years of abdicating its oversight responsibility of the U.S. military, Congress finally reasserted itself. It's about time, because when it comes to supervising military contracting, there is long overdue work to be done.
Over the past five years, the use of private groups has exploded with an estimated 40 cents out of every discretionary federal dollar going to contractors. While certainly private contractors are sometimes more capable of providing efficient, customized solutions, congressional scrutiny of this growing privatization, particularly in the realm of national security, continues to lag.
In few places is the growth in contracting being felt more acutely than the U.S. military. A recently released Pentagon census of civilians working in Iraq shows that an astounding 100,000 private contractors are supporting the U.S. military effort in Iraq. That's four times greater than the Pentagon's previous working estimate and only 40,000 less than the number of U.S. military troops in Iraq. It's a virtual army of largely unregulated individuals working on behalf of U.S. national interests. To date, more than 650 private contractors have been killed in Iraq -- more than all non-U.S. coalition fatalities combined.
Today private contractors have become an essential element of U.S. military strategy -- with little to no congressional oversight or investigation. Not only are contractors training police, cooking meals, and transporting weapons they are being asked to provide security services that were once the sole purview of the military, including convoy protection and at times, even engaging the enemy. In a 2004 incident, eight Blackwater contractors fought off an attack on the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Najaf. They did so without support from the U.S. military.
And as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the cost of this "private security" has skyrocketed. At the start of U.S. involvement, 7 to 10 percent of total project costs were estimated for security expenses. Today, that figure has doubled, making some essential infrastructure projects prohibitively expensive.
There is real question as to the level of savings that taxpayers are receiving from these groups. A recent investigation of a three-year, $1.1 billion police training program in Afghanistan, headed by the private contractor DynCorp, found that the effort had been an abject failure as police trainees were unable to carry out even basic law enforcement functions. Not surprisingly, the report also found serious deficiencies in U.S. government contracting procedures. Without able management and vigilant monitoring, outsourcing can not only waste money, it can actually endanger U.S. national interests.
But the need for oversight goes well beyond the financial.
The privatization of national security blurs the once clear line where public authority ends and private initiative begins. Many firms continue to operate in a legal gray zone. Contractors are not bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and while some international human rights conventions apply to armed civilians, enforcement of these rules in Iraq has been virtually non-existent. Civilian contracting also creates operational challenges as private security contractors operate separately from the U.S. military yet are still seen as part of the nation's military force. Finally, without proper congressional oversight contractors can become a political tool of the executive branch, further marginalizing the role of the Congress in national security; these private groups allow policymakers to deploy force without incurring the political costs of sending troops -- or necessarily congressional authorization.
Both the State Departments and Pentagon have been developing ideas for clarifying the role of private contractors. Industry initiatives are also afoot. But Congress needs to engage in this process by not only ensuring that it is gathering input from a wide group of stakeholders, but also confirming that its mandates are being implemented. In the age of an all-volunteer military, the use of private military contractors is likely here to stay. The challenge for legislators and policy-makers is to carve out appropriate spheres of activity for private contractors and military personnel in intelligence gathering, law enforcement, security and criminal justice functions. More than ever, the American public, and their representatives in Congress, must have a say.
Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü are co-directors of the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation.
Thanks Once Again To Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü
On Their Every Enlightening Research & Reporting!!!
Thus Glad To Be Of Special Services,
As More Glad Fun & Games In-Coming...
So...Really Very "Getting It Yet"...Amigo...
Congratulations I'm Sorry But Their Planning On
WhiteWashing Everything In Sight Now...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Hell What Else Can They Do...They've Failed Miserably
Stole A Lot Of Loot, Set Up & Murdered A Lot Of People &
Truly Look Like Evil Shit...Bottom "Congratulations I'm Sorry" Line!
Artist: Gin Blossoms
Song: Whitewash
Album: "Congratulations I'm Sorry"
This night never happened
If it's all right with you
Not a word of our weakness
So much as a clue
There's a place outside
I'm glad to play no part
The fairest arms can tally up the faintest stars
Wash away my weekend
Shatter my sight
C'mon sweet amnesia
You're needed here tonight
Take a seat in the shadows
Forget it as it goes
Dissipate in the morning air
All you know
If you find out
You'll find every lie you might
I was nowhere near last night
Whitewash everything in sight
These suspicions have been long drained dry
Our persistence holds them here
A maze of bars and rented rooms remain
Enough to make you almost look away
This night never happened
If it's all right with you
Another for the collection of things we didn't do
That private party is over
Thank God we get new starts
The fairest arms still tally up the faintest stars
When it comes down
In a clear and certain light
I was nowhere near last night
I was nowhere near last night
Whitewash everything in sight...
Now Getting It Yet Once Again There Arena Fans...
So Much BAE & BP Set Up's Set Up Right For The
Divine Oily Jump Off Cover-Up Plight Of Plights...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Right There Crusader "Spaghetti Bowl Western Blues" Toy-Tony!~!!
Thus The Same Old Song & Dance To
The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric!!!
So...Don't Forget To Rattle Real Good All
Those Divine Crusader Swords One Last Time...
As You Go Risk Life & Limb For Just...
So Once Again Fade Out From...
A Fistful Of Dollars Arena Of Many
Beautiful Experiences Amidst The Coming
WhiteWash Everything In Sight Of..."Who Knew What"
Ex-scape-Gate Plights... Getting It Yet Still After All
These Years Our Gladiator Arena "Come & See" Flights
Back To Black Blues Eternal Dead Again Tale Of Tales.
Thus Exit Now Upon "The LaTest Wave" Tests
Which Once Again Shall Nobily & Truly Be...
Signed Gladly Sadly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Over BitterSweet Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
Power & Control Over Others Is A Very Dangerous
Thing To Do & Leads To Massive Abuse, Torture,
And Many Other Very Ugly Nasty Evil Wrongs.
It Has Truly Set A Horrible Precedent To Follow.
And Then Not Setting Up The Correct Checks & Balances
In Place To Keep These Few Individuals In Check & Balance
Is Also Just As Horrible & Wrong. And Then Not To Have The
Correct Mechanicisms In Order To Be Able To Immediatly Remove
From Power & Punish Those Who Have Done These Horrible Things
Is Truly An Abomination & A Blight On Our Civilization & Laws.
This Is Sadly The Sick Legacy Left By
This Latest Adminstration & Those In Power ElseWhere
And On A Whole Generation Of "ME Generation Fools"!
Thus The Same Old Song & Dance
To The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric
By The Same Evil Dirty Old Men!!!
But Ehi...Ciao...Ciao...Amigos Anyway...
Il Mio Nome E Nessune (My Name Is Nobody)
And All I Have To Say Is...
"Congratulations I'm Sorry" But...Ha Ha Ha...
It Truly Has Something To Do With Death.
& We Surely & Gladly Did Tell & Warn Ya All So...
A Long Ago...Now Didn't We There Now...
So Ready To "Go Off & Kill Some More" There HellBenders...
& Thus It's The Same Old Song & Dance Of...
Either You'll Get "Very Rich Or Very Dead" Over Here
So...Come & See For Yourself Once Again Crusader
Spaghetti Bowl Western Blood & Guts Tale Of Tales
HellBender Of All Previous HellBending Divine Amigos...
Right There General-Colonel-Major...
Remember...You Where All Very Pre-Warned...
So...Also Still Looking For A Convenient
EX-Scape Gate Scapegoat There…"Blondie".
Well Well...
Enter Now Once Again A Fistful Of Dollars Arena
Of Many Beautiful Experiences Amidst The Coming
WhiteWash Everything In Sight Of..."Who Knew What"
Ex-scape-Gate Plights... Getting Yet Still After All
These Years Our Gladiator Arena "Come & See" Fights.
Plus Who Stole & MisAllocated What, When & Where...
& On Who's So Called Sacred Honored WATCH>>>>Some Watch!!!
At Least Ted Kennedy Voted Against This Rotten War From The Start
We Glads Gladly Give The Ol' Champion Credit For That...
The plot of the Epic involves The Americani Infidels as the Gunmen (referred to as "Joe" twice by both Saudi Arabians & Kuwaitis) who arrive in a small country on the frontier (Anbar Province) and plays the country's two rival factions, the Shia and the Sunni, against each other in order to make money off both sides and save a misguided evil perceived notion of Democracy caught in the crossfire.
So Isn't It A Very Beautiful Experience To Have
The capabilities & The Perception To Be Able To
Set_Up Many Other Very Beautiful Experiences For
Others World-Wide & Have The Divine Capabilities,
The Will & Vision, Plus The Know-How To Have Them
Then Carried On Through Correctly & Thus Make It
Supposedly What You Have Intended It All From The Start To Be...
A Very Beautiful Experience...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Then To Blow It All In...
Lies, Hypocrisy, Peculation, Greed, Fraud & Out Right Evil...Way To Go...
And You All Have The Balls & Guts To Talk About Generational Legacy.
Sheesh...How Utterly BOgus...What A Fraudulent Legacy Of Lies
Getting It Yet There Blondie!!! Much More On The Way...
And The Hard Trail Is About To Get Real Baxter & Rojo Nasty Too Boot!!!
Well Lets Just Come & See Now The Real Deal Bottom Line In This All
Including All The Lies Told To Try And Cover The Real Deal Truth That’s
About To Try & Get A Dick Cheney’ WhiteWash Everything In Sight
Deep Cleansing Ream Job Bank Roll Over Rhetoric…
Getting It Yet There Arena Fan...The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric!
President Bush's soaring rhetoric yesterday that the United States will promote the growth of democratic movements and institutions worldwide is at odds with the administration's increasingly close relations with repressive governments in every corner of the world.
Some of the administration's allies in the war against terrorism -- including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan -- are ranked by the State Department as among the worst human rights abusers. The president has proudly proclaimed his friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin while remaining largely silent about Putin's dismantling of democratic institutions in the past four years. The administration, eager to enlist China as an ally in the effort to restrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, has played down human rights concerns there, as well.
Bush's speech "brought to a high level the gap between the rhetoric and reality in U.S. foreign policy," said Thomas Carothers, co-author of a new book, "Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East."
"The rhetoric is seamless, but the policy is very muddled. In fact, the war on terrorism has pushed the U.S. to be friendlier with nondemocratic regimes," said Carothers, director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Many Don't Mind The Sacrifices As Long As Certain Conditions Are Met...
Sadly & Tragically Many To Most Have Thus Not Been Met!
Some Crusader Conquerers...
So This Goes Out To The Ol'Dickster &
His Evil BushWackers & SenatUrd Buddies...
Reining in Military Contractors
By Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü
Special to washingtonpost.com's Think Tank Town
Thursday, December 7, 2006; 12:00 AM
It's unlikely that many Americans know Stewart W. Bowen Jr. They should. As the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), Mr. Bowen has helped save taxpayers billions of dollars. His audits of reconstruction contracts have turned up waste, mismanagement and fraud; and his investigations led to four criminal convictions and embarrassed excuses from the U.S. government's biggest military contractors.
Yet, for all his good work, some in Congress are not terribly appreciative. On the eve of recent mid-term elections, an amendment, buried deep within a military authorization bill, closed down Bowen's office. After media outrage, congressional leaders scurried to give his job back. But, the symbolism of this surreptitious effort is rich -- after three and half years of abdicating its oversight responsibility of the U.S. military, Congress finally reasserted itself. It's about time, because when it comes to supervising military contracting, there is long overdue work to be done.
Over the past five years, the use of private groups has exploded with an estimated 40 cents out of every discretionary federal dollar going to contractors. While certainly private contractors are sometimes more capable of providing efficient, customized solutions, congressional scrutiny of this growing privatization, particularly in the realm of national security, continues to lag.
In few places is the growth in contracting being felt more acutely than the U.S. military. A recently released Pentagon census of civilians working in Iraq shows that an astounding 100,000 private contractors are supporting the U.S. military effort in Iraq. That's four times greater than the Pentagon's previous working estimate and only 40,000 less than the number of U.S. military troops in Iraq. It's a virtual army of largely unregulated individuals working on behalf of U.S. national interests. To date, more than 650 private contractors have been killed in Iraq -- more than all non-U.S. coalition fatalities combined.
Today private contractors have become an essential element of U.S. military strategy -- with little to no congressional oversight or investigation. Not only are contractors training police, cooking meals, and transporting weapons they are being asked to provide security services that were once the sole purview of the military, including convoy protection and at times, even engaging the enemy. In a 2004 incident, eight Blackwater contractors fought off an attack on the Coalition Provisional Authority headquarters in Najaf. They did so without support from the U.S. military.
And as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the cost of this "private security" has skyrocketed. At the start of U.S. involvement, 7 to 10 percent of total project costs were estimated for security expenses. Today, that figure has doubled, making some essential infrastructure projects prohibitively expensive.
There is real question as to the level of savings that taxpayers are receiving from these groups. A recent investigation of a three-year, $1.1 billion police training program in Afghanistan, headed by the private contractor DynCorp, found that the effort had been an abject failure as police trainees were unable to carry out even basic law enforcement functions. Not surprisingly, the report also found serious deficiencies in U.S. government contracting procedures. Without able management and vigilant monitoring, outsourcing can not only waste money, it can actually endanger U.S. national interests.
But the need for oversight goes well beyond the financial.
The privatization of national security blurs the once clear line where public authority ends and private initiative begins. Many firms continue to operate in a legal gray zone. Contractors are not bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and while some international human rights conventions apply to armed civilians, enforcement of these rules in Iraq has been virtually non-existent. Civilian contracting also creates operational challenges as private security contractors operate separately from the U.S. military yet are still seen as part of the nation's military force. Finally, without proper congressional oversight contractors can become a political tool of the executive branch, further marginalizing the role of the Congress in national security; these private groups allow policymakers to deploy force without incurring the political costs of sending troops -- or necessarily congressional authorization.
Both the State Departments and Pentagon have been developing ideas for clarifying the role of private contractors. Industry initiatives are also afoot. But Congress needs to engage in this process by not only ensuring that it is gathering input from a wide group of stakeholders, but also confirming that its mandates are being implemented. In the age of an all-volunteer military, the use of private military contractors is likely here to stay. The challenge for legislators and policy-makers is to carve out appropriate spheres of activity for private contractors and military personnel in intelligence gathering, law enforcement, security and criminal justice functions. More than ever, the American public, and their representatives in Congress, must have a say.
Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü are co-directors of the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation.
Thanks Once Again To Michael A. Cohen and Maria Figueroa Küpçü
On Their Every Enlightening Research & Reporting!!!
Thus Glad To Be Of Special Services,
As More Glad Fun & Games In-Coming...
So...Really Very "Getting It Yet"...Amigo...
Congratulations I'm Sorry But Their Planning On
WhiteWashing Everything In Sight Now...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Hell What Else Can They Do...They've Failed Miserably
Stole A Lot Of Loot, Set Up & Murdered A Lot Of People &
Truly Look Like Evil Shit...Bottom "Congratulations I'm Sorry" Line!
Artist: Gin Blossoms
Song: Whitewash
Album: "Congratulations I'm Sorry"
This night never happened
If it's all right with you
Not a word of our weakness
So much as a clue
There's a place outside
I'm glad to play no part
The fairest arms can tally up the faintest stars
Wash away my weekend
Shatter my sight
C'mon sweet amnesia
You're needed here tonight
Take a seat in the shadows
Forget it as it goes
Dissipate in the morning air
All you know
If you find out
You'll find every lie you might
I was nowhere near last night
Whitewash everything in sight
These suspicions have been long drained dry
Our persistence holds them here
A maze of bars and rented rooms remain
Enough to make you almost look away
This night never happened
If it's all right with you
Another for the collection of things we didn't do
That private party is over
Thank God we get new starts
The fairest arms still tally up the faintest stars
When it comes down
In a clear and certain light
I was nowhere near last night
I was nowhere near last night
Whitewash everything in sight...
Now Getting It Yet Once Again There Arena Fans...
So Much BAE & BP Set Up's Set Up Right For The
Divine Oily Jump Off Cover-Up Plight Of Plights...(SANITIZED STYLE).
Right There Crusader "Spaghetti Bowl Western Blues" Toy-Tony!~!!
Thus The Same Old Song & Dance To
The Same Old Brocken Record Rhetoric!!!
So...Don't Forget To Rattle Real Good All
Those Divine Crusader Swords One Last Time...
As You Go Risk Life & Limb For Just...
So Once Again Fade Out From...
A Fistful Of Dollars Arena Of Many
Beautiful Experiences Amidst The Coming
WhiteWash Everything In Sight Of..."Who Knew What"
Ex-scape-Gate Plights... Getting It Yet Still After All
These Years Our Gladiator Arena "Come & See" Flights
Back To Black Blues Eternal Dead Again Tale Of Tales.
Thus Exit Now Upon "The LaTest Wave" Tests
Which Once Again Shall Nobily & Truly Be...
Signed Gladly Sadly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Over BitterSweet Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Back Stepping To The Beat Of The Two Step Blues Bottom Line Bail Out Back Out Fade To Well Inten-Dead "Round About Gand" Black Out
What Sacred Shared Public Trust...Sheesh How Bogus!
Welcome Once Again There PassionsWord Arena Fans...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-Out From The Underground -X
Grand Journey Enterprise Release Presentation
Of "Out From The Grave" & Into The Gravy...
No Well "Round About Gand" Pun Inten-Dead...
But Been There, Done Bummed That,
Burned Those Bridges While All The Wile Also Still
Back Stepping To The Beat Of The Two Step Blues
Bottom Line Bail Out Back Out Fade To Black Out!
Now Still Mad As hell & Vowing Not To Take It Anymore?
Had Enough Of Being Bleed To Death...
While Our So Called Leaders Continue To Lie Cheat & Steal
Holding Up Their DisHeartening Ends With Brocken Promises
& Degenerate Deeds...UnReady To Make The Right Decisions
See Into The Real Deal In whole Sales...A Core Rate Rising
As Sunny Producer Pricing Drops Below Bottom Out &
Consumer Prices Shake Themselves InTo New Adverse Charge Change.
Expect More InComing WideSpread Sheet Losses,
The Fate Which Awaits All Those Who Are Now Caught
In The Cross-Heirs of Divine TransFormations, Seeking
To See Further Down The CrossRoads Of Future Splits
Even In Cross-Endork-Ments... So See Within The Red Book
Computer Tracking System A Wave...
Ahhh Lets Talk OverAll Health...Do Care!
MediCare Fraud With The Aliens Private HMO Cheating
Taking Monies While Delivering Little To No Services.
Billing Medicare To Pay For Re-ImBursT-Ments!
Thus A Cardiac House Of Grand Epiphany Cards Now Rules No Rules!
Thus We have faced obstacle and noncooperation at every step...
Also It's about time to Re Jump Start The
Horrible Task Of supervising military contracting,
there is long overdue work to be done Here.
So If Your Still Getting The Wrong Answers Than
Your Sadly Asking The Bloody Wrong Questions!
But The Real Sad Sadistic Sick Deal In All Countries Is That...
Abusive members of the military have enjoyed near-total immunity
for their violent crimes in the past. For If the military as
Well As The Government Officials & Dirty Judges are to
promote law and order today, it must respect the law.
& Thus They have, Are & Will Continue To Break The Law
Much More Than The Average...
BrainWashed BrainChallenged Or BrainDead Middle Man Moron.
So As December Becomes An Even Bloodier Filled Month Of Pain!
Watch Out & Fade To A Real Rocket ProPelled Load In On The
On Going InComing Join In...The Gong In...Melt Down Fry Out!!
Thus The Endless Praising & Honor Bestowed Upon
FAILURE, INEPTITUDE, LOSS & IRRESPONSIBILITY
& Those Evil Morons Who Created These Sad State Of Affairs!
Truly Sickening!!! Just Like They Have Done So Many Times
Before In The Past & Now Will Again Try To Bestow Upon
The Departing Donald RumpsFart...
We Will Also See How The
Scandal Ridden Blair Fairs OverSeas...
That's The Real Deal Bottom Line Corrupt-Inept Problem Here
The Endless Praising & Bestowing Of Honors Upon Those Who
Truly Do Not Deserve Them... What Law & Justice & Sacred
Shared Trust, By Those Corrupt Inept Evil & Irresponsible
With The Sacred Shared Public Trust!
Stains That Surely will survive any amount of scrubbing!!!
As You Thus Exit Now Upon "The LaTest Last Wave-Fart"
Which Once Again Shall Nobily & Truly Be...
Signed Gladly Sadly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Over BitterSweet Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
Fade Now Into The…
But Been There, Done Bummed That,
Blasted & Burned Those Bridges While All The Wile Also
Still Back Stepping To The Beat Of The Two Step Blues
Bottom Line Bail Out Back Out Fade To Well Inten-Dead
"Round About Gand" Sacred Shared Public Trust Melt Down Black Out!
Welcome Once Again There PassionsWord Arena Fans...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-Out From The Underground -X
Grand Journey Enterprise Release Presentation
Of "Out From The Grave" & Into The Gravy...
No Well "Round About Gand" Pun Inten-Dead...
But Been There, Done Bummed That,
Burned Those Bridges While All The Wile Also Still
Back Stepping To The Beat Of The Two Step Blues
Bottom Line Bail Out Back Out Fade To Black Out!
Now Still Mad As hell & Vowing Not To Take It Anymore?
Had Enough Of Being Bleed To Death...
While Our So Called Leaders Continue To Lie Cheat & Steal
Holding Up Their DisHeartening Ends With Brocken Promises
& Degenerate Deeds...UnReady To Make The Right Decisions
See Into The Real Deal In whole Sales...A Core Rate Rising
As Sunny Producer Pricing Drops Below Bottom Out &
Consumer Prices Shake Themselves InTo New Adverse Charge Change.
Expect More InComing WideSpread Sheet Losses,
The Fate Which Awaits All Those Who Are Now Caught
In The Cross-Heirs of Divine TransFormations, Seeking
To See Further Down The CrossRoads Of Future Splits
Even In Cross-Endork-Ments... So See Within The Red Book
Computer Tracking System A Wave...
Ahhh Lets Talk OverAll Health...Do Care!
MediCare Fraud With The Aliens Private HMO Cheating
Taking Monies While Delivering Little To No Services.
Billing Medicare To Pay For Re-ImBursT-Ments!
Thus A Cardiac House Of Grand Epiphany Cards Now Rules No Rules!
Thus We have faced obstacle and noncooperation at every step...
Also It's about time to Re Jump Start The
Horrible Task Of supervising military contracting,
there is long overdue work to be done Here.
So If Your Still Getting The Wrong Answers Than
Your Sadly Asking The Bloody Wrong Questions!
But The Real Sad Sadistic Sick Deal In All Countries Is That...
Abusive members of the military have enjoyed near-total immunity
for their violent crimes in the past. For If the military as
Well As The Government Officials & Dirty Judges are to
promote law and order today, it must respect the law.
& Thus They have, Are & Will Continue To Break The Law
Much More Than The Average...
BrainWashed BrainChallenged Or BrainDead Middle Man Moron.
So As December Becomes An Even Bloodier Filled Month Of Pain!
Watch Out & Fade To A Real Rocket ProPelled Load In On The
On Going InComing Join In...The Gong In...Melt Down Fry Out!!
Thus The Endless Praising & Honor Bestowed Upon
FAILURE, INEPTITUDE, LOSS & IRRESPONSIBILITY
& Those Evil Morons Who Created These Sad State Of Affairs!
Truly Sickening!!! Just Like They Have Done So Many Times
Before In The Past & Now Will Again Try To Bestow Upon
The Departing Donald RumpsFart...
We Will Also See How The
Scandal Ridden Blair Fairs OverSeas...
That's The Real Deal Bottom Line Corrupt-Inept Problem Here
The Endless Praising & Bestowing Of Honors Upon Those Who
Truly Do Not Deserve Them... What Law & Justice & Sacred
Shared Trust, By Those Corrupt Inept Evil & Irresponsible
With The Sacred Shared Public Trust!
Stains That Surely will survive any amount of scrubbing!!!
As You Thus Exit Now Upon "The LaTest Last Wave-Fart"
Which Once Again Shall Nobily & Truly Be...
Signed Gladly Sadly & Tragically
At The PassionSword Blades Edge
We Bitter Over BitterSweet Gladiators
Of The Society Of The Sacred PassionsWord
Fade Now Into The…
But Been There, Done Bummed That,
Blasted & Burned Those Bridges While All The Wile Also
Still Back Stepping To The Beat Of The Two Step Blues
Bottom Line Bail Out Back Out Fade To Well Inten-Dead
"Round About Gand" Sacred Shared Public Trust Melt Down Black Out!
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