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OutsourceBush Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 09:46 PM
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Bush paid idiot Powell: don't give so much to tsunami aid!
Edited on Sun Jan-09-05 09:48 PM by OutsourceBush
Powell wants people to not give so much to tsunami victims.

"What we have to do is to make sure that we're providing assistance based on what is needed and providing money based on what is needed, not just flooding all of these places and accounts with supplies that may not be needed, or financial assistance that may not be required yet," he said.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11899242%255E1702,00.html
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 09:50 PM
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1. Great moments in disaster management
from the makers of the Iraq war
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 09:51 PM
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2. Sounds like neo-con code for: Lets wait a little bit till we......
....figure out how to funnel these funds into Cheney's bank accounts.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 09:54 PM
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3. Or, how to make sure
most of these funds get funneled through contractors who are repug cronies.
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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 09:57 PM
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4. or Powell is looking for a fast buck in a new job nt
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 10:40 PM
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5. Heaven forbid we give those Moslems more than is
'necessary'.... they might use it to build up their economy's. We NEED weak economies and strong (US approved) dictators out there.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 10:46 PM
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6. Haha
Dubya must be having a Rube at the Casino moment. Opened with a sensible $4 million and next thing you know, he's $350 million in the hole. How the fuck did THAT happen?
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 10:46 PM
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7. Bush & Powell are asserting SUPREMACY over the UN and they are using a
ravaged people to do so. I think Kofi Annan's message was completely contradictory to what Powell said. Annan was asking for world aid, financial and material, to be sent ASAP.

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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-05 10:54 PM
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8. ANOTHER cover-up by colin powell...starting with Mai Lai to (link)
Panama, and Gulf War 1....colin powell has soldiered on...lying to advance his own career, as he slugs through the dead bodies left in his wake.....


Starting here....the career of a liar and killer...colin powell...PROMOTIONS galore.....

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In 1968, he was charged with responding to a letter by Tom Glen, a soldier in the Americal division. The letter charged American soldiers with indiscriminately shooting into people’s homes and with severe beatings and torture of civilians. Without interviewing Glen, Powell wrote a response denying the allegations, claiming that "relations between Americal soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent." (The New Republic, 4/17/95). Given his involvement in the "strategic hamlet" program and the knowledge expressed in his memoirs of the brutal practices of American soldiers in Vietnam, he had to know his report was false. The report came out shortly after the My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of unarmed men, women and children were murdered and many women raped (Four Hours in My Lai: Penguin, 1993) – an atrocity committed by that same Americal division.

http://www.nowarcollective.com/powellbio.htm

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