Can Buchanan, a bombastic figure in American politics, win a Senate seat?
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is,” wrote William Thackeray in the novel Vanity Fair. Senate Republicans, reeling from scandal and disunity, fully understand how easy it is to merge onto the freeway of failure.
It was only 13 years ago that Newt Gingrich, then the Braveheart of the GOP, led Republicans into Washington to drain the swamp and dispose of the vermin. A decade later, the party that championed an end to business as usual has become the monster they sought to destroy.
The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.
Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so… Read more on the official website at: http://iraqforsale.org/
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.You start off as a well-connected bureaucrat: in this case, as an Air Force civil engineer, a post from which Robbins was responsible for overseeing 70,000 servicemen and contractors, with an annual budget of $8 billion. You serve with distinction for thirty-four years, becoming such a military all-star that the Air Force frequently sends you to the Hill to testify before Congress — until one day in the summer of 2003, when you retire to take a job as an executive for Parsons, a private construction company looking to do work in Iraq.
Those who hoped that – with the victory of the antiwar party in 2006, the departure of Rumsfeld and the neocons from the Pentagon, the rise of Condi and the eclipse of Cheney – America was headed out of Iraq got a rude awakening. They are about to get another.
Today, the United States has 30,000 more troops in Iraq than on the day America repudiated the Bush war policy and voted the GOP out of power. And President Bush, self-confidence surging, is now employing against Iran a bellicosity redolent of the days just prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is,” wrote William Thackeray in the novel Vanity Fair. Senate Republicans, reeling from scandal and disunity, fully understand how easy it is to merge onto the freeway of failure.
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