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So much for the top 20.
That'll teach me to open my big mouth.
Breaks the top 20 baby.
Top 10 here we come.
OTC - here is another.
C P S - Choicepoint Inc. High P/E. Flat earnings. And there wont be much need for financial screening services if nobody is taking out loans.
Plus, they are involved in several identity theft suits.
Rogue: 'pulling the "gears and levers" of our economy'
What gears and levers are there to pull?
I'm afraid the Fed lowering short term rates wont be able to stop this train. Long term rates are going to keep rising, and the foreclosure crisis is only beginning.
The real problem with THIS bubble, is that it's affect are exponential. As housing prices start to fall, the folks with these sub-prime loans wont be able to recoup or get out.
I think the long term pain is going to come more from the fact that we no longer have a manufactoring base. "Service" America is in for a real awakening when disposable income dries up, and folks stop going out to eat 4-5 nights a week.
Since the US now only exports raw materials, we could see a sharp rise in unemployment here real soon. Lots of construction workers are already feeling the crunch. I'm afraid its going to be a painful couple of years here.
OT: Bought R A T E puts strike 30.
After reading the Barrons article this weekend (thanks cl001), I picked up AUG and NOV puts on R A T E this morning.
The stock crashed hard today, and appears ready to continue its freefall. The subprime news just keeps getting worse.
I went looking for other high PE stocks out there that may be affected.
I found Salesforce.com (C R M), with a P/E of about 300. This one looks ripe for a fall in continued market weakness.
I've never been much of a short seller, but I think we are getting ready for a serious correction. Also picked up some QID today.
Good post here by Tetris.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=18208261
Hey Len,
IMO, Mercenary groups like Blackwater are a plague on our nation. I dont think we should be outsourcing military missions myself.
And I certainly dont think we should be outsourcing military and domestic intelligence gathering.
And the fact that these paid killers are seeking impunity for libel really gets my goat.
Other than that, please feel free to ignore my rant. That second cup of coffee this morning got me juiced.
That Nov 17 $30.00 Put on R A T E looks mighty tempting.
Thanks for the article. Got my strategy for Monday AM ready.
BLACKWATER - REPUBLICAN WAR PROFITEERS
I hope this becomes the next Bush scandal, and I hope we shut this company down and investigate their leadership.
Hey Len,
I guess its the optimist/idealist in me, but I see this as an opportunity for business.
My company, IBM, is already advancing research in this area, and are making headway on reducing the power consumption of our chips.
Think of all the cool technology that could be developed.
How about solar energy capturing roofing tiles, and windows?
Look at Toyota, soon to be the number one car manufactorer in the world. All done with the Prius.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Too bad the folks on the right arent creative enough to be good stewards and smart business men.
Congrats Dems!!
Way to give the boy king a good swift kick in the nuts.
The war funding bill was far from perfect, but I think this put Congress on good footing for ending this disaster.
Bush called it "Political Theatre" as he stood in a quickly gathered crowd of children and military vets.
Bush would know political theatre better than anyone: "Mission Accomplished".
The Latest Inflation Numbers - Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0409/019.html?partner=yahoomag
The Latest Inflation Numbers remain disturbing. The Fed doesn't need to raise interest rates. It just needs to drain the excess liquidity it created, until the gold price--the best monetary barometer--goes down to the $400 range. But Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely dawdle. And then overreact. Stay tuned.
continued at link...
DTT, I dont get it.
Why does the right make this an ideological debate?
Even if CO2 doesnt cause warming, its still not good right?
Look at Brazil. Their economy is hoping, and they are making serious changes to their energy use.
I think there is a serious economic opportunity here, but it doesnt include the oil and gas companies, so they arent going to come along quietly.
NASA - Global Warming
Can we trust this source?
http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html
Causes of global warming
Climatologists (scientists who study climate) have analyzed the global warming that has occurred since the late 1800's. A majority of climatologists have concluded that human activities are responsible for most of the warming. Human activities contribute to global warming by enhancing Earth's natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect warms Earth's surface through a complex process involving sunlight, gases, and particles in the atmosphere. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are known as greenhouse gases.
The main human activities that contribute to global warming are the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and the clearing of land. Most of the burning occurs in automobiles, in factories, and in electric power plants that provide energy for houses and office buildings. The burning of fossil fuels creates carbon dioxide, whose chemical formula is CO2. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that slows the escape of heat into space. Trees and other plants remove CO2 from the air during photosynthesis, the process they use to produce food. The clearing of land contributes to the buildup of CO2 by reducing the rate at which the gas is removed from the atmosphere or by the decomposition of dead vegetation.
A small number of scientists argue that the increase in greenhouse gases has not made a measurable difference in the temperature. They say that natural processes could have caused global warming. Those processes include increases in the energy emitted (given off) by the sun. But the vast majority of climatologists believe that increases in the sun's energy have contributed only slightly to recent warming.
"Your questions were answered in detail by actual climatologists. "
And denial is a river in Egypt.
So your answer in "NO", you dont think burning a trillion pounds of fuel a year has any detremental effect on our environment.
I dont understand why you just cant come out and say it.
No. I'm only interested in what YOU have to say.
Is burning a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) lbs of fuel a year a good thing for the environment or not?
I dont need any supporting articles for my answer. It's common sense.
And its common sense that the people who sell us this fuel will do anything to keep us dependent on it.
Hahah.
Wow, between yours and DTT's post earlier, I dont know which is funnier.
Great propaganda OTC,
But you never answered my question. We are burning about 1 trillion of pounds of gas a year in the U.S.
Are you saying that this has NO detremental effect or our environment?
Do you at least agree that burning this much fuel, and releasing all this carbon into the environment is not a good thing?
Courage?
"Courage is being a scientist that does'nt believe global warming or climate change is caused by man or more specifically the U.S."
The U.S. burns on average 320 million gallons of petroleum a day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline
Thats 116 billion gallons of fuel a year that the U.S. burns.
Fuel weighs about 8.3 lbs per gallon, so that means we burn almost a trillion pounds of fuel a year, the primary by-product of which is CO2, which a known factor in atmospheric warming.
How can anyone on Earth even suggest that man does not play a part in global warming when we are burning a trillion pounds of fuel a year... just in the U.S.?
Where do you think all the gas we burn goes?
Hey Rogue,
I liked Rosie in "A league of their own", other than that I dont really care about what she thinks. My opinion of Donald Trump is about the same.
I would like to see a new, independent Grand Jury investigation of 911. I would like to see some people held responsible for the failures that day.
Hey DTT,
I'm just razzin ya. I'm a veggie freak myself. Gotta nice little tray of about 10 different tomato varieties sprouting right next to my computer. We use the warmth for the computer to warm up the germination dome.
Going to do some nice exotic peppers this year as well.
Gotta new Craftsman tiller last weekend and about 15 yard of mushroom composte (organic, no animal waste).
But my favorite meal is a 1.25" thick rib eye rolled in a nice garlic rub, flash grilled rare, topped with some gorgonzolla. A nice Napa/Washington cab, say Nickel & Nickel or a Leonetti.
Grilled asparagas and carrots on the side.
Yeah, I'm ready for spring.
soy crumbles?
Mmmm... gonna barbaque me up some... soy crumbles??
Mmmm... roast me up some...
Mmmm... fried soy crumbles and...
I'm trying man. I'm trying.
Doesnt excessive soy increase estrogen levels??
Roast pork tenderloin sandwich for lunch today.
I rubbed it with lots of spices and slow baked it last night for about 4 hours. You could cut it with a fork.
A little thousand island, some fresh red onion, tomato, and toasted whole grain bread.
Mmmm... roast pork, the other white meat.
Heading to the sidelines here.
Great points, and you're right about Len, he called it.
I think we are in for a very rough ride. A weakening Dollar will not be helped by the lender crash.
Our enormous debt isnt helping either. When the dollar deflates, nobody will want to lend us anymore money.
Looking for gold.
It all starts with illegal employers.
The Swift meat company got busted last year with what? 1,300 illegal employees, across 5 different packing centers.
The fine for Swift meats???
$0.00
The 1,300 illegal employees are now stuck in a concentration camp, with their children.
I think we are punishing the wrong people.
I think this is why Len hoards all his cash in shoe boxes and burys them out in the yard.
DTT, 4 what its worth
I moved almost half my portfolio to cash today.
Last weeks volatility spooked me. Got a nice bounce this week and I decided to take some serious profit.
I have that funny feeling.
Like during electrical storms when the lights go off, but then they come on again for a half second. Then they go off again, and they dont come back on.
Today was my half second of light.
Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions
I'm sorry, but which side is taking us towards communism again? I dont seem to remember any "Liberal" gulags
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Sovietera_compound_in_Poland_was_site_0307.html
POLAND -- The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the arrangements.
Intelligence officials identify the site as a component of a Polish intelligence training school outside the northern Polish village of Stare Kiejkuty. While previously suspected, the facility has never been conclusively identified as being part of the CIA's secret rendition and detention program.
Only the Polish prime minister and top Polish intelligence brass were told of the plan, in which agents of the United States quietly shuttled detainees from other holding facilities around the globe for stopovers and short-term interrogation in Poland between late 2002 and 2004.
According to a confidential British intelligence memo shown to RAW STORY, Prime Minister Tony Blair told Poland's then-Prime Minister Leszek Miller to keep the information secret, even from his own government.
“Miller was asked to keep it as tight as possible,” the memo said.
The complex at Stare Kiejkuty, a Soviet-era compound once used by German intelligence in World War II, is best known as having been the only Russian intelligence training school to operate outside the Soviet Union. Its prominence in the Soviet era suggests that it may have been the facility first identified – but never named – when the Washington Post’s Dana Priest revealed the existence of the CIA’s secret prison network in November 2005.
Reached by telephone Monday, Priest would not discuss the allegations in her article beyond her original report.
CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano would not confirm or deny any allegations about the Polish facility. He maintained the rendition program was legal and conducted “with great care.”
“The agency’s terrorist interrogation program has been conducted lawfully, with great care and close review, producing vital information that has helped disrupt plots and save lives,” Gimigliano said Monday. “That is also true of renditions, another key, lawful tool in the fight against terror.”
“The United States does not conduct or condone torture, nor does it transfer anyone to other countries for the purpose of torture,” he added.
US intelligence officials confirmed that the CIA had used the compound at Stare Kiejkuty in the past. Speaking generally about the agency’s program, a former senior official said the CIA had never conducted unlawful interrogations.
“We never tortured anyone,” one former senior intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. “We sent them to countries that did torture, but not on this scale.”
The official added that many agency staff had strong feelings about the rendition program. “Career people were really opposed to this.”
All intelligence sources interviewed said the CIA is no longer operating a rendition or secret detainment program.
Polish intelligence officials declined to comment. Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former head of Polish intelligence, told a Polish news agency in 2005, however, that the CIA had access to two internal zones at the Stare Kiejkuty training school. Current and former Polish authorities have adamantly denied that Poland played any role in the clandestine program.
US, United Kingdom invited Poland to join program in 2002
In April 2002, according to British foreign intelligence sources (MI6), senior officials in the Bush and Blair administrations decided that the Bagram base near Kabul in Afghanistan could not operate successfully in the Bush administration’s “no holds barred” policy towards suspected terrorists.
MI6 officials say the two administrations then decided to fly high-value suspected terrorists to secret gulags in Eastern Europe. The CIA-operated flights would pass through the air space of a number of countries – among them Britain, Germany, Spain and Poland. European Union officials and human rights groups would later say these interrogations may have violated the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which the United States and Poland are both signatories.
After a series of secret meetings chaired by MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett in London and then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington, Polish intelligence was invited to join the project, British and Polish intelligence sources say.
Authorities singled out a remote and infrequently used airfield in the Northern Polish town of Szymany for transit flights; a near-by Polish intelligence training school at Stare Kiejkuty would be used as an eventual detention-interrogation center for temporary detention and short-term interrogations.
The White House did not return two calls seeking comment. Tenet could not be reached.
Rendition programs were first employed by the Clinton administration in order to target suspected elements of al Qaeda. These covert operations, run out of the CIA, were used intermittently and on a limited basis. It was not until the Bush Administration that the use of extraordinary rendition became a matter of policy and was employed on a large scale.
The Szczytno-Szymany Airport
Szczytno-Szymany used to be a military airfield in northeastern Poland, one of many such airstrips that could accept the large Soviet-made military planes of the Warsaw Pact; before that, it had served as an airstrip for German Luftwaffe bombers targeting Warsaw in the Second World War. In 1996, seven years after Poland’s communist government fell, the military airfield was turned into a private company: Airports “Mazury-Szczytno.”
However, traffic wasn’t heavy enough to provide decent income to the state and private owners of the airfield, so motorcycle and car races were organized on the tarmac; small-scale production and repairs also buttressed the company’s budget.
But after the start of Operation Enduring Freedom – the US military campaign against Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks – everything changed. In the years that followed, American planes began arriving from Afghanistan, continuing on to Morocco, Uzbekistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to Szymany locals and airport staff.
Then-Szymany airport manager Mariola Przewlocka told European Union investigators the flights were likely linked with the intelligence complex at Stare Kiejkuty, about 12 miles away from the airport.
Przewlocka said that whenever one of the suspected flights was scheduled to land, “orders were given directly by the regional border guards… emphasizing that the airport authorities should not approach the aircraft and that military staff and services alone” would handle landings.
“Money for the services was paid in cash, sometimes as much as four times the normal charge,” the former airport manager added. “Handling of the passengers aboard was carried out in a remote corner of the Szymany airstrip. People came in and out from four-wheel drive cars with shaded windows.”
The cars were seen traveling to and from the Stare Kiejkuty intelligence facility, where British and Polish intelligence officials say US agents conducted short-term interrogations before shuffling prisoners to other locations.
Przewlocka also spoke in detail with the Chicago Tribune, whose correspondent traveled to Szymany last month.
“Secret prisons” were likely temporary “black sites”
Former European and US intelligence officials indicate that the secret prisons across the European Union, first identified by the Washington Post, are likely not permanent locations, making them difficult to identify.
What some believe was a network of secret prisons was most probably a series of facilities used temporarily by the United States when needed, officials say. Interim “black sites” – secret facilities used for covert activities – can be as small as a room in a government building, which only becomes a black site when a prisoner is brought in for short-term detainment and interrogation.
For example, detainees could be shuffled from a temporary black site in one country to a temporary black site in another country, never staying long enough at either to attract notice. Such an arrangement, sources say, would allow plausible deniability by the host country as well as the US. Investigators looking for a permanent facility would never find one. Such a site, sources say, would have to be near an airport.
Washington-based security expert and president of Global Security John Pike says short-term detention in already existing facilities would be “sensible tradecraft” and a more likely scenario than a network of specific, long term prisons.
“A short-term operation does not develop a big signature and you don’t have a continual parade of people,” said Pike. “When it becomes noticeable, they move it all.”
“It’s a shell game,” he added.
Pressure from US and Britain to keep quiet
In the wake of the Washington Post expose, member countries of the European Union began to demand answers.
According to British and Polish intelligence officials, foreign journalists, and EU sources interviewed for this article, the countries participating in the US rendition and detention program and their governments were kept largely out of the loop. Officials say Bush and Blair administration contacts selectively chose politicians in the EU and other countries, keeping their respective governments in the dark.
Having only a select few members of the European Union aware of the program, coupled with the transience of the prison network, made it difficult for European Union investigators to verify allegations of secret detention sites.
A ten-member EU delegation traveled to Poland in November 2006 to investigate Szymany airport and the facility at Stare Kiejstuty. The team’s report indicates that key government officials first agreed to meet with the delegates, but declined to do so after their arrival.
The delegates requested interviews of 20 Polish government officials, journalists and others, but were allowed to speak with only nine. Of those interviewed, only a handful could offer any substantive information.
One of the more interesting interviews came from former Szczytno-Szymany Airport chairman Jerzy Kos. According to the report, Kos stated that at the time the airport was under his authority, it belonged to the Military Property Agency and was leased by his company.
Kos stated that after a Boeing 737 landed on Sept. 22, 2003, a standard military procedure came into force under which Polish Border Guards determined the character of incoming flights and expedited certain arrivals.
“The military procedure was a simplified one, including provision for no customs clearance,” Kos told investigators. He said he had “no information about the passengers as procedure was undertaken by soldiers and not the civilian airport staff.”
Kos asserted that during his tenure from 2003 to 2004, Gulfstream planes transferring through the airport were treated as military flights in the same fashion as the Border Guards had handled the Boeing 737 in September 2003.
Air traffic controllers “had been informed by the Warsaw-based Air Traffic Agency that Gulfstream planes would land at the airport by fax,” Kos told investigators.
Polish public television journalist Adam Krzykowski added more detail.
Krzykowski alleged that the September 2003 Boeing 737 carried a crew of seven and was joined at the Szymany airfield by five passengers who declared themselves businessmen. According to the EU report, Krzykowski maintained that all twelve “were American citizens.”
“The Boeing flight was not subject to standard border control procedure, but to a … simplified procedure [which] meant that no customs officers were present during the control and passengers were checked only on basis of a list delivered to the Border Guards,” he said. “According to the Border Guards, such a procedure is used when a person has already been checked up on previously.”
The final report of the European Union’s investigation into Poland as well as the other countries alleged to be part of the rendition program can be read here. Most of those the EU sought to question did not cooperate with investigators, including suspected governments, journalists and key officials in the United States.
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who received a Pulitzer Prize for her article exposing the CIA’s secret detention centers, declined to speak with EU investigators.
“The Post never allows its reporters to testify to government inquiries no matter what government it is, so there was nothing unusual in that regard,” Priest said Monday.
The only member of the Bush Administration given leave to discuss the program with the EU was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said she expected American allies to co-operate and keep quiet about sensitive anti-terrorism operations.”
The Reopening of Szymany Airport
The “prime-time” for Szymany International Airport seems to have ended in 2006, when the investigation by the European Parliament was finished without a clear result or definitive proof of “CIA secret prisons” existing in Poland.
Polish officials refused to cooperate and vehemently denied any role in the CIA program. The airport company had to suspend its activities, due to a dispute over the ownership of the Szczytno-Szymany airfield.
In November 2006, the company signed a lease agreement with the Military Property Agency, which still owns the land and the facilities. This agreement opened the way for financing of the airport by the regional administration and the Polish government.
The Szymany airfield, now in civilian hands and allegedly free of “rendition flights,” will soon become a regional airport. Its beautiful location in the Masurian Lakes Region will likely kindle its development, and the fame of its history surrounding secret CIA flights could certainly become an attractive tourist-catching slogan.
Funny no matter which side you lean too.
Right-Wing Narrative Coming: Government To Blame For VA Mess
http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/03/rightwing_narra.htm
Have you been following the VA Hospital mess? The Republicans privatized care at Walter Reed (corruptly throwing a contract to the SAME PEOPLE - Republican campaign contributors - who screwed up ice delivery after Katrina). They gutted the professional staff and cut everything so the money would flow to a few rich f**ks instead of to caring for the troops.
But what are they telling the public? That it's an example of the problem with GOVERNMENT! After firing all the professional staff and outsourcing everything they're telling people that government can't fire people so they don't care about the troops.
Republicans: Gut the government, pocket the funds, then BLAME the government when things stop working.
Agreed DTT.
We should considering making that day a national holiday. And once we get rid of the President, I hope we go after the Vice President.
re: Dick Cheney resigns
Just want to bring back my prediction here, now that Libby, Libby, Libby, has been found GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY.
We already have the blood-clot excuse being worked up. Any day now.
Posted by: echos
In reply to: None
Date:1/26/2007 12:22:55 AM
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Dick Cheney Resigns!!
Rumors all over the web tonight that Cheney is planning his exit.
Any bets as to when? Gentlemen's bet of course.
I'm saying March 20.
Dont be a Dick.
Fox News Devoted 12 Times More Coverage To Anna Nicole Than Walter Reed
Support the Troops my ass.
http://thinkprogress.org/
Our corporate media is truly the greatest bootlicker of all. Anything to keep from upending the apple cart. How pathetic.
'you are full of Shiat!'
Tell me something I dont know.
Think about it though. Should Karl Rove still have access to classified information?
No.
Should Cheney or anybody on his staff?
No.
These guys are bigger traitors than Robert Hanssen.
Too funny.
We have multiple felons in the White House who are guilty of far worse than anything Jefferson has done.
Why should anyone have to follow the law if the our President doenst have too?
Sy Hersh: Inside Bush and Cheney’s World
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Download/14902/1/RealTime-Hersh-Iran.wmv
Sounds pretty credible to me.
Sy Hersh broke the Abu-Ghrab story.
You said he wasnt credible. If Sy Hersh's Abu-Ghrab story was credible, isnt it then plausible that his story about Bush supporting terrorists is credible.
You seem to be saying that because the story is being reported by Hersh, that you dont believe it.
If someone had told me that in 1979 we were selling Iran weapons to illegally arm rebels in Central America, I probably wouldnt have believed it.
If left with the choice to trust the credibility of Sy Hersh vs George Bush, I think the choice pretty clear.
Are you saying that you dont believe the Bush administration is supporting Sunni terrorists?
Are you going to deny Abu-Ghrab as well?
That'a boy!
Attack the messenger, not the message.
You really think this is rediculous?
Do you think Iran-Contra was just an illusion?
I trust Sy Hersh more than anybody from the Bush administration. He has certainly been proven to be more accurate.
Bush is Funding al-Qaeda, Making Him an Unlawful Combatant
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/022707Lindorff.shtml
It was always clear that the $21 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds, most of which disappeared into Iraq (much of it was in the form of bales of $100 bills), didn't just vanish.
Given the number of veterans of the Iran-Contra scandal operating in the Bush White House and Pentagon--many of them convicted felons or unindicted co-conspirators in that baroque criminal scandal from the Reagan presidency--it seemed obvious that such easy cash would end up being funnelled into secret wars and secret military projects, as well as other nefarious activities.
Now we learn from ace investigative reporter Sy Hersh, speaking on CNN that Bush and his criminal crew have been using this illicit, stolen cash to fund covert attacks on Iranian targets, and that much of the money has been going--get this--to Sunni jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda--the very people we're fighting in Iraq!
This is surely taking that old saw, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," to the extreme! First we let Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora, and now we're funding him and his allies, supposedly to attack our new enemy, Iran. It's enough to make you queasy. Osama must be laughing all the way to the bank. First we set him up, when we wanted him to attack the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then he turned on us and attacked us. And now we're back to supporting him again.
No wonder when Congress passed a bill creating an office of inspector general to check on all that vanishing Iraq cash, Bush furtively issued one of his "signing statements" saying that the new inspector would be barred from examining any funds that involved the Pentagon--effectively nullifying the law!
Now, it should be pointed out that under anti-terrorism legislation submitted by the administration and passed into law by the Congress, providing aid to Al-Qaeda or to organizations in any way linked to terrorism is a federal crime and classifies the perpetrator as an abettor of terrorism and even as an "unlawful combatant," subject to loss of citizenship rights, and suitable for rendition to Guantanamo or some other secret torture hell-hole.
I suppose the proper thing at this point would be for some patriotic prosecutor or some general to march into the White House and haul the president off to be waterboarded until he lays out all the details of his treasonous actions. (Sure he is the president and is immune from prosecution, but if he's an "unlawful combatant," none of that applies. The president has declared this to be so.)
For make no mistake: secretly providing money to terrorist organizations that are daily attacking Americans in Iraq, in order to ignite a new war against Iran, especially at a time that the US military is stretched beyond the limit in Iraq, is nothing short of treason. Even viewed in a more minimalist way, absconding with public funds and diverting them to illegal purposes is criminal fraud.
If Congress does not jump on this immediately, its members will have betrayed their oaths and the nation.
These are dangerous times. We are being led by bloodthirsty men drunk with power and the people who are supposed to be standing up to them are afraid to lift a finger.
The time is fast approaching when the only way America's beleagured and abused troops will be able to defend themselves will be by laying down their arms--or perhaps turning them on their demented leaders.