[The Random Factor] Lincoln, Truman, and Bush/Cheney

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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country . . . Corporations have been
enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money
power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln, 1864

By using disproved intelligence as fact and by inventing a relationship
between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Cheney, Bush (& Rumsfeld) led the
charge into Iraq.

Since then Cheney's company Halliburton has gotten over 10 billion dollars
in contracts from the Iraq war despite the fact that audits have shown they
have repeatedly stolen and overcharged the US government and even instituted
accounting methods designed to make funds disappear...
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/audits.html

The Carlyle Group is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by
former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Carlyle could lay
claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Carlyle's
profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.  Currently,
Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406R.shtml

In the early 1940s, an senator from the midwest by the name of Harry S
Truman, at the head of a committee investigating corruption, equated war
profiteering with treason. Of course, it is also good to remember that
Abraham Lincoln brought the country together back together after the civil
war not through persecution of the opposing armies, but by forgiving all
war-time crimes. What a guy.


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