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
