{"id":3698,"date":"2007-10-01T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:46:42","slug":"stop-saying-iraq-is-another-vietnam-its-another-enron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/stop-saying-iraq-is-another-vietnam-its-another-enron\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Saying Iraq Is Another Vietnam; It&#8217;s Another Enron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/enronmarkofthedevilbushcheney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/enronmarkofthedevilbushcheney.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By <\/strong><strong>Bill Maher<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\"><strong>HuffingtonPost.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iraq is Enron, and President Bush is Ken Lay. He&#8217;s fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. The Bush administration fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq, and cooked the books to keep us there. &#8220;The surge&#8221; is simply another in a long series of inflated stock quotes.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend Marcel Marceau passed away at age 84. Doctors say he went quietly. Thus proving that evil thrives when good men stay silent. And just like with Enron, the good men and women who are blowing the whistle on Iraq contractor fraud are being vilified, fired, demoted, and those are the lucky ones.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday morning the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing entitled &#8220;The Mistreatment of Iraq Contracting Whistleblowers,&#8221; just in time to make the Friday news dump. According to the committee more than $10 billion dollars in Iraq reconstruction and military support contracts is unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, for every six dollars spent in Iraq one dollar is in question. And folks, it&#8217;s a war-zone, you&#8217;re dealing with a culture known for its haggling skills, so you&#8217;ve got factor in a little skimming, but this is ridiculous. If you stole that much money from the Mafia you&#8217;d be dead.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bill Maher, HuffingtonPost.com Iraq is Enron, and President Bush is Ken Lay. He&#8217;s fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. The Bush administration fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq, and cooked the books to keep us there. &#8220;The surge&#8221; is simply another in a long series of inflated stock quotes. 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