Leslie, excellent post, except that I question whether they are interested in “our souls.”  These Orwellian sociopaths are interested in two things, money and power.  They have no interest in our minds except to the extent that religion and patriotism can be exploited so as to keep us within the corporate media’s mind-numbing fog, blind to their Machiavellian machinations that are carried out, whenever possible, under the veil of secrecy.

Profiteer, I was unable to directly obtain the video through your link. 

The subject of the Bush family connections to Dresser Industries is covered by Joseph Trento in “Prelude to Terror.”  The president’s paternal grandfather, Prescott Bush, along with the Harriman family, had maintained financial ties to Hitler’s Germany, even during World War II.  Trento suggests that Prescott’s position as a member of the board of two corporations connected to the Manhatten Project, Vanadium Corp., which supplied uranium and Dresser Industries which supplied the pumps, along with the Harriman family’s influence within the Democratic Party shielded Prescott during the war.

After the war, as damning evidence surfaced from captured German bank records, documents made their way into a CIA file where Allen Dulles, who had his own past links to the Nazi regime and who had busied himself recruiting former Nazis into the ranks of the U.S. intellegence services, also recruited those in the U.S. business community with former ties to the Nazi regime.  Dulles both shielded the damning evidence from disclosure and used them as leverage against Prescott, who then “spent most of his post-World War II life cooperating with and taking an active interest in, the most covert CIA intelligence operations.”  This included, following Prescott’s election to the Senate, maneuvering to obtain a position on the Senate Armed Services Committee and, upon Dulles’s urging, a position on the subcommittee which oversaw the CIA.

Prescott set up a job for George H. W. Bush with Henry Neil Malon and Dresser Industries, which “had long provided cover for the agency.”  Dulles targed George H. W. for recruitment as a CIA business asset.  Trento asserts George H.W. began “doing favors for the CIA” in 1956 after he moved to Houston and established Zapata-Offshore, which led to his involvement with the anti-Castro Cubans in which the CIA used Zapata-Offshore oil rigs as training areas in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion.  The name given to the two repainted naval vessels obtained by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty for use in the invasion were the “Houston” and the “Barbara.”  The top secret code name for the invasion was “Operation Zapata.”  On Nov. 29, 1963 J. Edgar Hoover directed a memo to the State Department entitled, “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963” noting that the FBI and DIA had briefed “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.”  When this memo surfaced in 1988, then V.P. George H. W. Bush denied he’d ever been associated with the CIA before being appointed its director in 1975.

In “Plausible Denial” attorney Mark Lane makes a compelling case for CIA involvement in the Kennedy assassination, including the sworn testimony of former Fidel Castro girlfriend and CIA asset Marita Lorenz that directly links individuals who had been connected to the Bay of Pigs, including Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt & Frank Sturgis, to Jack Ruby and to the assassination.

#82164 by Leslie Brundige on 6/28 at 11:45 am

Ooh Leslie, this is such an excellent post!! I will be with you in heart and spirit, at the march on Kennebunkport, (I’m still convinced that Osama occupies the guest house there). I’m too disenfranchised to join you, (and there’s the on-going concern that if I appear anywhere on the East Coast, I would be subject to rendition)but I’ll keep you all in my throughts.

Let us know how it goes.

IRAQ, A VERITABLE CONSERVATIVE THEME PARK.

No taxes, no regulations, faith-based inititives run wild, unfettered capitalism, AK 47’s in abundance, collapsed infrastructure, dirty water, dirty air, sewage in the streets…who could ask for anything more ideal. 

Of course KBR and every other ‘alphabet’ corporation will rush in for the kill.  It’s the American way.

Look at it this way…
If they weren’t throwing it away over in Iraq, they’d just have to spend it somewhere else, like maybe on the injured troops coming back…
and there isn’t any money in that, now, is there?

I seriously doubt if any other news outlet would print Mr. Sheer’s article. Nor would they be likely to air any of the comments, that have followed it.

All would be considered to be much too disturbing.

Those corporations in charge now, don’t want anything so unnerving as the truth to disrupt the shopping.

If Halliburton is now “off shore” then it should lose all “Buy America Act” contracts.

Seize all their U.S Assets, determine whose responsible and put them in jail.

The anti-seizure laws protecting the multi-million dollar mansions (homes) in states like Texas and Florida (i.e. Enron) should be repealed.

A medal to Rep. Waxman? All right, but let’s remember that this report is only the tip of a huge iceberg of corruption that seems to permeate the entire U.S. government. Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of federal employees would refuse to go along with it if they were motivated by the common good rather than being afraid of losing their cushy retirement benefits. A massive federal purge is badly needed, but no leading politician is even evoking this possibility.

Love,

You all make such astute comments and observations. I love it!!! Especially our younger set. Around here, I’d say something like, “Wow, you guys are smarter than you LOOK!! (And, they are!!)

Any observer to these comments would certainly note the same thing. Americans are wising up, and sharing the info.

Ah…makes my heart dance…

It is unfortunate that Mr. Scheer’s article is not published in every newspaper in the U.S.  I honestly don’t believe that most Americans have a clue or understanding of the amounts of money that is being squandered.  It is difficult to imagine how much half a trillion dollars is.  It is easier for us to understand if it is expressed in comparative terms such as how many people it would feed/for how long; how much health care could be provided; housing, education..
I also think it would be immensely valuable if Mr. Scheer, Congress and Senate would explain that our budgeted tax dollars to support America’s military operations is only part of the monies expended.  That, we do in fact, subsidize the war profiteers with extra funds.  Thus, we are paying for not only military actions we are paying war profiteers over there as well. 
Mr. Scheer, your article was excellent.  Your analysis, too.  Thank you

There seems to be a fine lines between honorable defense contractors and war profiteers.

But, as Scheer notes, in many cases it is obvious that certain organizations and individuals fall into the category of war profiteers.

This is truly a sinful activity.

Food for thought in the article ...

“Iraq War Psychology: Exploring hearts and minds of U.S. officials, press, profiteers”

PopulistAmerica.com
Populist Party of America

http://www.populistamerica.com/iraq_war_psychology

U.S. Embassy security guard to CIA station chief:  “Hey, come back with that pork chop!”

The war profiteers in any war are a disgustingly vile bunch of creatures. They have no humanity or morals. Death and destruction are their oxygen. They arm the world so that humans kill each other. And we think Arabs are terrorists? These people live on fear and terror, yet they have the money to make terrorism look somehow “civilized”.

They are gods of war and profiteers of misery. Greed is their god. An article I recently read describes these people with great truth and passion. Highly recommend it. “Gods of War, Gods of Greed and Profiteers of Misery”. Do yourself a favor and read this great essay.

http://valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/2004/08/gods-of-war-gods-of-greed-and.html

Just remember this next time someone accuses the Bush administration has being incompetent. Remember the billions cleverly transferred from the many to the few the next time someone characterizes Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney as misguided. Incompetently misguided all the way to the bank, while the truly incompetent and misguided continue to swallow the preposterous White House swill.

Every day, in every way, there are fresh revelations that America serves the interests of the corporations, whether they are in Dubai or Washington D.C., doesn’t matter.

Our military does their bidding, they own our Congress and Senate, and the entire work of our government is to make them money.

And each day, the corporate propganda mill on Radio, and T.V., fills the hearts and minds of American’s with poison, and the pathology of their greed.

And each day, the corporate plutocracy advances it’s lies and subtrafuge against the free world.

Their agenda is the only one that is heard in Washington, they are above the law because they own it and their feckless stooges in Washington will do nothing against them, instead they are paid to introduce bills the corporations favor. 
We are a country in which the laws are made to protect them and insulate them and their profits, from any grievance that the people may have against their atrocities.

Each day the politicians go on with their puppet show, but no one believes it anymore.

What do people expect from the VP’s company other than than to cut and run?

My father, a Pearl Harbor Survivor, said: “Take your American company to a different country, as Halliburton has done by relocating its headquarters to the tax shelter of Dubai, then don’t bring your goods or services to us.” It is a statement that is hard to refute and certainly should be applied to this company that has no remorse over pilfering American monies.