The U.S. Embassy in Iraq, like the Iraq war and everything about it, is nothing but subterfuge for war profiteering.  No one really cares what happens to the Embassy once the contractors have been paid, and the kickback to the Bush family has cleared.

Well gee, how can they keep their modest little embassy project within budget, unless they use slave labor?

This is all Congress’s fault, for not giving them more billions to spend on it!

#90125 by DS Ellis on 7/27 at 12:51 pm

Compared to the Tillman Family and Cindy Sheehan, all these other finger-pointers-come-latelies are only setting one example:  Don’t rat out injustice until your head is next on the chopping block.

#90166 by Louise on 7/27 at 2:19 pm

• Maybe silence in the field is better than a silenced witness. While it is infuriating to keep hearing horror after the fact, how much would we hear if those willing to speak up never made it home?

Maybe that’s what happened to Tillman.
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Louise is right on spot here DS, as is Enemy of the State, in this post:
#90247
….”I think this general picture has been true for quite a few whistle blowers, they are suppressed, and only when the political climate changes can they get anyone to pay attention.”….

There has been a whole lot of “suppression of whistleblowers” probably in the 10s of 1000s that we never hear about, (and definitely NOT in our own media) and some live to tell about it later, and some don’t.

HOWEVER, that hasn’t stopped those who will find a way, to get the truth on the record. Still, whistleblowers have a hard life. What can I say? We owe them a debt of gratitude, and we can usually (at least at this point) read through the spin, and “consider the sources” and generally differentiate between the real “truth tellers” and the ones who have waited until “after the fact”, because they were more concerned with protecting their own political hides, until they realized that they were just as whackable as all the rest of us.

It’s sickening that things like this don’t even seem like news anymore.  Maybe we need to compile a list of at least “known” corporate abuses since this administration took office and hold it up against the corporate abuses of every other president’s term.  Although, I don’t think the outcome would be surprising, it could possibly send a message to those still “keeping the faith” in this administration.  I think it would also go a long way to show the blatant complicity of those in congress, the Dept of Justice, the Dept. of Defense and the current administration who “turned the other cheek” and supported and continue to support crimes committed by corporate America.

DS: I think these folks tried to tell their story, but the main stream media would have nothing to do with it:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ27Ak01.html
Asia times last October.

It took a congressional hearing to get anyone in out fearless main stream media to report the story.

I think this general picture has been true for quite a few whistle blowers, they are suppressed, and only when the political climate changes can they get anyone to pay attention.

If you want to know whats happening in the world (or even here at home) you have to find news sources that aren’t compromised. Many of these are foreign.

When I was in Iraq last year, I noticed a lot of projects that were not complete due to either bad contracts or not up to standards.

Remember folks…
The company was given several months warning, and told when the inspection would occur.  Looks as though they were all on the same payroll....

“State Department officials strongly disputed the charges, telling a House committee that inspections had not substantiated the worst reported abuses.”

OK, so that must mean they don’t dispute the ‘other than worst’ reported abuses.

“At this time our reach does not extend to third-country hiring practices,” said William Moser, the deputy assistant secretary for acquisitions.”

I suppose that means abduction is not covered in their hiring practices ... Third-country or otherwise.
How convenient.

Once again, the kiddies shout in unison, “I didn’t do it!”

#90125 by DS Ellis

“I’m noticing a trend of people testifying ‘courageously’ against the current administration long after the actual crime has been committed.  Where is the standup American spirit?”

Maybe silence in the field is better than a silenced witness. While it is infuriating to keep hearing horror after the fact, how much would we hear if those willing to speak up never made it home?

Maybe that’s what happened to Tillman.

I’m noticing a trend of people testifying ‘couragousely’ against the current admistration long after the actual crime has been committed.  Where is the standup American spirit?  Where is the will to defend the weak and aid the oppressed?  How much longer can we sing the words “home of the brave” with a straight face?

Compared to the Tillman Family and Cindy Sheehan, all these other finger-pointers-come-latelies are only setting one example:  Don’t rat out injustice until your head is next on the chopping block.

The Iraqis do not need and do not want to see a massive U.S. Embassy. They only want all invasion forces to leave their country and to stop blood shed
immediately !