| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 3:59:02 PM | | Senator Carl Levin said today on Air America that it has been his finding that up to 30% of the money paid by US tax dollars to contractors in Iraq is being paid out to Al Queda for protection. Al Queda's position is that they want a piece of the action. Does everyone see the irony in this? | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:07:04 PM | | Well from an adminstrative standpoint at least that is cost effective since they already had their direct deposit information since they have been on the payroll for decades. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:07:44 PM | Al Queda spefically, or just dissents in general?
I see nothing wrong with private organsations fighting to maintain a stable Iraq- it means the Colliation can leave a safer Iraq sooner- but paying terrorists? I dunno... | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:22:08 PM | | What Levin said was that it was specificaly Al Queda demanding money from contractors, One of those we will kill you if you don't pay us. It would seem to me that we are paying for indirectly the organization that opposes us. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:22:34 PM | Come on Rev....
Listening to Air America is like listening to Rush,both go overboard and the truth is seldom part of their rehtoric. I would like to see a link for this...if you could...maybe some proof....If this can be proven...lots of folks are going to be pissed...we are supposed to be fighting these guys.... | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:23:21 PM | Sen Levin said about his visit.
In our visit to al-Anbar province, we learned that, unlike elsewhere in Iraq where sectarian violence is the biggest threat, the insurgency, which is increasingly dominated and led by al Qaeda, is the main threat. Our Marine leadership in al Anbar advises that 30 percent of all contracts, including U.S. Government let contracts paid for with U.S. taxpayer dollars, goes to al Qaeda. Although this province, which is almost exclusively populated by Sunni Arabs, violently opposes the perceived occupation by the U.S.-led Coalition, local tribal leaders over the last several weeks are seeking to come together to oppose the insurgency, as they view the Coalition as less of a threat to them than al Qaeda. We also learned that an obstacle to defeating the insurgency is the fact that the central government has been withholding funds from Al Anbar province and although the Iraqi Army has been developing fairly well, there are insufficient numbers in the province due to a lack of focus by the central government there.
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=264637 | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:32:07 PM |
What Levin said was that it was specificaly Al Queda demanding money from contractors, One of those we will kill you if you don't pay us. It would seem to me that we are paying for indirectly the organization that opposes us.
So......
Wouldn't the solution be a more aggressive Colliation policy? | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:45:22 PM | Security????? Sort of like Bagdad.......?
Mcain said we need to send 100k more troops to start. Are we really ready for that???
Iraq is gone.........
we will be too with a few more days like yesterday. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 5:49:04 PM | "Listening to Air America is like listening to Rush"
But the difference is that a US Senator said it not Rush. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 6:16:27 PM | Thanks We were all concerned about your opinion.
Did Rush say something about this??
Did Hannity???
Did BOR??
I think Rush is still wondering about the good news from Iraq.
Wash DC and LA are more dangerous you know. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/19/2006 7:35:54 PM | RWGG,
I listen to both extremes on the radio as I travel a lot. Its entertaining. I have never posted anything solely on the basis of one extreme said it or the other. I was quoting a US Senator not a talk show host.
I usually only quote the talk show hosts when i am making fun of them | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/31/2006 4:54:44 AM | | I am surprised this thread has not gotten more interest. It would seem to me that the United States financing the war against itself would be of major concern. Oh well. The elections are coming up, we will see then if the American people are ready for a change of direction. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/31/2006 10:34:28 AM | Irony 1:
Levin: The militias must be disarmed, peacefully if possible, to avoid all-out civil war, oil revenues must be equitably distributed...
Irony2:
Levin: The best hope of success in Iraq, where hope is in short supply, if one is a realist, is that Iraqi political leaders be given a heavy dose of reality.
A dose of reality? Preaching to a country where you can't even line up to become a policeman or in the army without someone setting off a car bomb and killing dozens of you. Or maybe coming to your house and killing you or your family. Then there's all the political leaders who have been assassinated. And the judges. And the bureaucrats. And anyone who's the wrong religion. And...
GE&H | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 10/31/2006 1:34:42 PM | GE&H,
The oil revenues are being distributed equally. It just happens to be among the six major oil companies of the world and not to the Iraqi people. Too many people think this is just a sectarian war. It is also a war for resources. Our first law we set into place gave all of those resources to the majors for 40 years. Very little goes to the people of Iraq. If this government in Iraq fails then those contracts become bogus. No wonder that we must "stay the course" | |
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| 30% of US fun going to Al Queda
Posted: 11/2/2006 11:35:01 AM | The oil revenues are being distributed equally. It just happens to be among the six major oil companies of the world... Then I think they should arbitrarily pick one of the oil companies to give more oil to...lest they be accused of communism.
I just realized that I should have split Irony 1 into 2 parts. I like how the following 2 statements look side-by-side:
Levin: The militias must be disarmed, peacefully if possible, to avoid all-out civil war...
2nd Amendment to the Constitution: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
To be fair, it doesn't mean that he can't be against that part of the Constitution - in fact I'd respect him more if he was.
Just idly musing,
GE&H | |
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| 30% of US fun going to Al Queda
Posted: 3/17/2007 7:09:33 PM | | Yeah our own principles of freedom seem to not apply when talking about someone else's country. | |
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| 30% of US fun going to Al Queda
Posted: 3/17/2007 8:22:33 PM | | This doesn't suprise me, the usual view of Al Qaeda is a bunch of backwoods, fundamentalist hicks who still think the earth is flat. The ones strapping bombs to their chest may be, but the guys SENDING those guys tend to be upperclass and highly educated (often in the US or Europe). And this is another brilliant move on their part. Getting your enemy to fund you is almost as good as getting your enemy to destroy themselves. I'll also agree with an earlier poster who was suprised that this wasn't getting more attention. But with bad news being followed by worse news almost every day, Americans have come to expect this from a war that we almost all (if not openly) know to be already lost. | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 3/18/2007 4:40:22 PM | I am surprised this thread has not gotten more interest. It would seem to me that the United States financing the war against itself would be of major concern.
You've just answered your own question. Business as usual for at least the past 75 years, where there is profit the US corporations will be there even if it means doing business with the enemy.
Why would people think this was odd? | |
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| 30% of US funds going to Al Queda
Posted: 3/20/2007 5:30:36 AM | | Now there are accusations being made that with Saudi money, we have been financing Al Queda activities against Hezbollah. Things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Who the hell is the enemy? | |
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