Didn't we once JAIL war profiteers?
brentspeak
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Thu Jun-16-05 09:27 PM
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Didn't we once JAIL war profiteers?
I read tonight that Halliburton was "awarded" yet another taxpayer-funded Pentagon project, this time for building a new Gitmo prison. Wasn't there a time when war-profiteers almost gladly ran to the police to escape angry citizens who were liable to take justice into their own hands?
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Thu Jun-16-05 09:34 PM
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1. Treason never prospers
for if it prosper, none dare call it treason. -- Sir John Harington.
meppie-meppie not
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Thu Jun-16-05 09:39 PM
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2. yes but that was before the bush days
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Thu Jun-16-05 09:50 PM
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3. Wasn't Standard Oil broken down at the start of the 20th century
and recreated at the beginning of this one?
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Thu Jun-16-05 09:56 PM
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4. They would have to declare war first. Congress never declared war...
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Thu Jun-16-05 10:09 PM
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I THOUGHT PROFIT GOUGING AND WAR PROFITEERING WAS ILLEGAL?
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Thu Jun-16-05 10:30 PM
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6. WWI and WWII there were constant complaints about 'war profiters'
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 10:31 PM by bobbieinok
and republican T Roosevelt talked about 'malefactors of great wealth'
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