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http://thecommonills.blogspot.com [The Common Ills] Iraq's bloody "regime change" was engineered in order to implement a thorough-going economic rapine plan drawn up for the Bush administration in early 2003 by the corporate consulting group BearingPoint, as Antonia Juhasz reports in her new book, "The Bush Agenda." BearingPoint, headquartered in the CIA company town of Maclean, Virginia, provided a detailed blueprint for opening up Iraq to predatory foreign "investment" on terms that allowed the wholesale looting of the nation's wealth while acing Iraqi companies out of the action.

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[Roadstoiraq.com] Baghdad Dweller » Blog Archive » Why El Salvador?: Nominally written by a committee of Defense, State, and Treasury officials, the blueprint was in fact the brainchild of a platoon of corporate lobbyists, chief among them the flattax fanatic Grover Norquist. From overhauling tax rates to rewriting copyright law, the document mapped out a radical makeover of Iraq as a free-market Xanadu-a sort of Chile on the Tigris-including, on page 73, the sell-off of the nation’s crown jewels: “privatization…

http://shows.airamericaradio.com [Shows.airamericaradio.com] Tuesday - Iraqi Road | Morning Sedition | Air America Radio:     Which explains why President-elect Bush sought a briefing on Iraq from Defense Secretary William Cohen in January before taking the oath of office and why Iraq was the principal concern at his first National Security Council meeting - all before 9/11. When 9/11 occurred, we knew immediately that it was caused by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

[Hannah.smith-family.com] Hannah's Blog: September 2004 Archives: One wonders how much of that $87 billion he voted against was actually intended for the construction of new bases, rather than the reconstruction of what has been destroyed in Iraq.  Sending the National Guard over was not an unintended consequence of not having enough regular man-power.  Dispatching national guard units with all their heavy equipment was done on purpose.  They were supposed to build the bases and airfields the military needs.  Why else have they spent their time building roads in Kuwait while they waited until Iraq was safe?  Surely Kuwait has enough money to build its own roads now that its access to oil is secure.

[Thomaspmbarnett.com] Thomas PM Barnett :: Weblog: October 2005 Archives: So very cool to see Phil again and share a meal after my talk, along with the new head of Deep Blue (the longest of the Navy's long-range think tanks), the new boss of the Office of Naval Intelligence (who told me Bill Manthorpe has published an article in an intell community journal on his "curve" slide and my write-up of it in PNM), and the guy in charge of submarine force structure planning. Funny thing is, you'd think this trio would all be hostile to my vision, given my criticism of the navy, but nothing could be further from the truth, which I find quite comforting.

http://kysor.blogspot.com [Kysor.blogspot.com] Sampler: AMY GOODMAN: Let me read to you from a Newsweek piece by Steven Levy, "Will Your Vote Count in 2006?" which, of course, quotes you saying, “When you’re using a paperless voting system, there’s no security.” But it quotes Diebold Election Systems spokesperson David Bear, who says that “Hursti’s findings do not represent a fatal vulnerability in Diebold technology, but simply note the presence of a feature that allows access to authorized technicians to periodically update the software. If it so happens that someone not supposed to use the machine -- or an election official who wants to put his or her thumb on the scale of democracy -- takes advantage of this fast track to fraud, that's not Diebold's problem.” Bear says, the Diebold spokesperson, “[Our critics are] throwing out a ‘what if’ that’s premised on a basis of an evil, nefarious person breaking the law.”

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