War profiteers surely owe Bu$hCo a big tip of the hat.
David Cloud of the NYT tells us of the Lincoln Group of DC, owned by young pups Christian Bailey (originally Jozefowicz) and Paige Craig, that has won multi-million dollar contracts to develop propaganda in Iraq. A rags to riches story built on fudged connections and shoddy work. From living in a “half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them”, one now has a million-dollar G-town crib and the other drives a Jag. They have office space on PA Avenue and they sponsor polo matches in Virginia! CNN Money covers them as well wondering how this PR firm will salvage their own media mess. That the group has massaged their Republican contacts into big bucks is likely no surprise.
The hall of shame champion is David H. Brooks of DHB Industries (defective body armor maker with shareholder derivative suits pending) throwing a ten million dollar bat mitzvah for his thirteen year old daughter. Pictures are here. Common Dreams’ Sarah Anderson is certainly not happy with any of these war profiteers.
Some Senators, at least those not controlled by Karl Rove, weren’t that happy with Secretary Rice today on Iraq and ….
And we can't leave out Dead Eye Dick's Halliburton! A joke floating around today is that Kellog, Brown and Root got the contract to dig the lead out of Counselor Whittington.
Peace ... or War! And it will be a brutal battle to attack avarice!
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