Rachel Maddow & Richard Engel on the MASSIVE continuing US presence in Iraq

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 05:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1sCUecxYbY   Posted on YouTube: August 21, 2010 By YouTube Member: firedoglake Views on YouTube: 460   Posted on DU: August 23, 2010 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 602

 
More contractors than soldiers. Plus, the drawdown is sponsored by KBR. More cha-ching for Darth Cheney.

[lob1]

1. We're down to 50,000 troops left in Iraq. Oh wait....

it's actually 57,000 troops left...oh wait. It's actually 127,000. Oh wait...

Doesn't this sound like the crap we got from BP? "There's only a 1000 gallons leaking a day...oh wait, make that 5,000 a day. Oh wait, it's 20,000. No wait, it's 25,000. Actually it's 30,000 BARRELS a day, not gallons...oh wait, it's 64,000 barrels a day. Oh wait, all the oil's gone."

edited to add a big K&R.

[RKP5637]

2. Yeah!!! The damn BS never ends. I'm so tired of the endless BS about almost

everything... like the economy, it's really great, everyone, we're just too ignorant to understand how great it's going for everyone. Same old SH**, over and over.

[izquierdista]

3. Rachel treads bullshit very well

I think if it was me in her place, I would have passed out for sure.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. and we complain about corruption in the Afghan govt? what do you call this for-profit war set up?

if this isn't corruptive use of the tax payer's money, I'd like to know what is...

where are the tea baggers on this? U.S. tax money being thrown hand over fist into contractor coffers for profit and expenses that could be supporting our own troops ten fold

guess the tea baggers are asleep at the switch again

duh