Oh good. We are paying them over there so we don't have to pay them over here.

Does anyone else think that the current Republican regime isn't quite up to the task of protecting America? At this point, I wouldn't trust a Republican to walk my dog.

interesting

I am not surprised by this. Our government has a history of supporting dictators and murderers when it is in our interest to do so. Doesn’t anyone remember that at one time we were supportive of Saddam Hussein when it was in our interest to do so? Doesn't anyone remember when we supported Manuel Noriega when it was in our interest to do so? Some more integrity would be nice, but it all appears to depend on whether or not the bottom line is profitable for us and expediency.

Wow, makes me feel real good, knowing our country wants to protect us this much!

What's the big deal!!! We got a VP who when he was CEO for Haliburton had a subsidiary open an office in the British Cayman Islands to circumvent the US embargo against Saddam. If we can have a VP do that, what the big deal about this guy.

And let's look at the Carlyle Group. They sell to both sides and have investors all over the world. And GW on the board. Bush Sr was a paid consultant. This is how the Bin Ladens and the Bush family became friends.

Have we had any planes flying in to US airspace illegally with arab kamikaze pilots killing mass numbers of American citizens here recently? Nope, have not had any dirty bombs exploding in LAX, MIA or LAX.....no bilogical terror happened since 9-11. Still sleeping in my bed safely at night knowing in my heart that obviously someone is doing their job right! This is just another liberal media gimmick to get liberal democratic voters feathers ruffled and to start spouting off obscenity's at the Bush Administration and conservative Republicans as a whole. Thank you ABC,CNN and CNBC for yet another biased one-sided article. I only take what you all write with a grain of salt. Now to go back to Fox News....i can only take so much of you all.

So what? In war you sometimes have very strange bedfellows. Who do you want to get the arms in, FedEx? This is a guy that has experiance doing what he does and he does it very well.

If he doesn't do it, someone else will. It's a revolving door.

The republican party is corrupt to the very core. Specifically, this administration, to which they cling, is nothing short of the FIRST US coup d'état since we stole this place from the natives.

I wouldn't trust any politician to clean my toilet.

bobby stickers-I agree about the Republicans but unfortunately for the USA the Democrats are also incapable of it either. Neither party has anyone who can be called a leader. They are all just politicians.

This Republican administration knows exactly what its doing, (from Rumsfield to Cheney to Bush to Rove). The insiders are making millions for themselves and their families without a care to us 'less fortunate folks'. Unfortunately we can't depend on the Democrats to clean up the mess as I fear they almost as unethical and morally corrupt. Otherwise Polosi and others in leadership would be calling for impeachment NOW.

and you would trust a liberal democrat, bobby stickers??

They won't even prosecute those in OUR country currently breaking the law (ILLEGAL immigrants)

I'm not saying the current situation in Iraq is ideal, but I doubt the dems could do any better.

Bobby, If you would let any politican walk your dog you just don't think much of your dog.

"I'm not saying the current situation in Iraq is ideal, but I doubt the dems could do any better."

I don't remember any Democrats manufactoring evidence to lie us into a war? Maybe you are right, an occupation of Iraq was bound to end in failure, but doesn't that just mean that a competent administration would have kept us out? After all, it is not as if they were any kind of a threat.

"and you would trust a liberal democrat, bobby stickers??"

I tend to trust trustworthy people and not trust untrustworthy people, so I guess the answer is yes.

This kind of sums up the difference between Liberals and Conservatives. Liberals look at all the Republican politicians going to jail and being indicted and say "see the Republicans are corrupt". Conservatives look at all the Republican politicians going to jail and being indicted and say "see they are all corrupt". They then go on to complain about hispanics, mexicans, illegal immigrants, and one of the Clintons (depending upon who is in the news).

I say, let us go with the facts. Even one accepts the premise that the process of dedicating oneself to public service makes one corrupt, it is hard to argue with the facts that the amount of corruption among Democrats is a tiny, tiny, fraction of the corruption among Republicans. What is the current figure, about a hundred corrupt Republicans for each corrupt Democrat? That is not just a statistical anomoly.

"I only take what you all write with a grain of salt. Now to go back to Fox News....i can only take so much of you all. Posted by: becca"

Yep, pretty addictive Kool-aid, huh, becca?

I'm going to start watching Fox News as soon as Tony Snow, the master of tall tales, returns to the network. Fox has a way of portraying and spinning all the dirt uncovered in this Administration in a positive and optimistic light. Rather than criticize and hammer away at Mr. Bush at every opportunity, we should adopt the fairly tale illusionary world of Fox News and praise and worship the Commander in Chief.

Yes, we all know plenty about Victor Bout. It's one more reason why we have been shaking our heads in disgust for the past six years.

Why has RICO not been applied to the Bush Regime? Obviously because the entire US Government is corrupt and needs to be replaced.

But it stays in place because central bankster gangsters control all of the western political world through fiat myth-money.

Is the Osama BL the same guy who was reported dying in a Mid East hospital of kidney failure, by the cia, who then nipped over to a cave in Afghan and shut down the half trillion dollar US air defenses with his laptop, so his incompetents wouldnt NOT be intercepted. Anybody talking bout Osama BL today in th is context be a govt misinformer..

RICO should be applied to the entire Republican party. I for one, do not agree with selective enforcement of laws.

AMerica is at the point of failed empire
economically bankrupted,moraly bankrupted spiritualy bankrupted
it now lashes out against Iran for switching to the petro euro the same happened in Iraq
the signicant issue is the petro euro
opposed to the petro dollar
the crush of debt that can not be paid back has led America to a no win sitution
war is the answer for america
ww3 to be precise but this time it is America portrying the facist regime and the rest of the world must come to grips with
what will it take for the rest of the world to make it clear to Americans that they do not run this world will it take the nuking of their cities to prove that American power does not equal the rest of the world's power
|Americans better get a hold of their president by the scruff of his neck and straiten him out he is leading them to their doom

America this is insane our government knows this. It's bad enough that they gave the buddy club exclusive contracts,
but we just made another criminal, but this one didn't even wear a white collar! As far as Mr. Cheney goes he
committed an act of Treason against the United States. He was president and CEO when they crossed the trade embargo. The last time I remember you had to be a citizen of the United States to hold his office. I don't give a damn about were his office address was. He was living here!

I think that the people in Washington have messed up big time. It startered when they send American jobs out of the country, this action deteriated the main component of a capitalist country. What was ment to be for Americans in America has gone from America to non-americans. It's O.K. to share, but first we need to have a surplus. Now many of us (me included)don't have the American dream at our reach. I've always had faith in our leaders, but it feels like if they never cared for other Americans. It has being about themselves and our tax monies that we paid for themselves. Everyday, something new comes up about the reality in our government, how politicians cheated, lie, stoled and who knows what else. But the truth comes out down the road. And thats the season that Washington is entering. You know whats sad, when they amongst each other have the power we gave them to do the ill things that they do and cover up each others lower backs. I ask of people of influence and power to stop these corrupted politicians through the power of the constitution of America. We the people do not have the power/money to do it. The politicians that do have their day in court walk away. The only power we had was to vote, but that also has been tainted. I've lost my trust in the vote. I remembered when Al Gore got snowed in Florida. I hope that in the future(soon)the news will sound like this... Senator Bla has turned corrupt therefore will be impeached in 72 hours. Not allow him to resign from his post like the present.In closing, Please roll back the jobs to America; we need money. Learn from China don't give away jobs. America is capable of making the best products in the world.

I work for a US defense contractor. I supported a military unit for one year in Mosul, Iraq. It was a good feeling to be helping the troops but it was horrible to see the violations of our own laws by contractors like Halliburton/KBR, and some others. I personally saw daily those planes they are talking about. Bout uses mostly Russian cargo planes because of he is banned from doing business with any defense contractor and supposedly the US gov't. Amazing how our gov't violates its own laws for probably what is the "cheapest" bidder.

watching the republicans collapse is music to my ears...the sweetest sounds to infinity...the crooks they promoted are falling like autumn leaves but watch out because "misery loves company"...so you going with them ABC?????

No wonder Pelosi and Rammie Emanuel want to get into the money well these crooks thrive in, and have convinced the BLUE DOG Democrats to follow them to the money pump to "suckle at the devils teat"...woof woof

Bill clinton is directly responsable for 911 and the democratic party could never have dealt with 911. It would have been like asking the murderer to investigate the murder !

I wonder why anyone would want to shift the blame to Bill Clinton. America was attacked by OBL who happens to be Mr Bush's family friend and Mr Cheney's business partner.However, rather than go after their beloved money pump they decided to make Saddam the scapegoat and lied to get Americans to war even when they were unable to prove the existence of the WMDs and when Top CIA and sober minded Americans spoke otherwise. American refused to yield to the truth,you gave Mr Bush the whitehouse for a second term when he did not even win it the first time. Now you blame Bill Clinton? May God forgive guyz.

The book cited in this article is wrong: "Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Plans..." It should be "Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes..."

Surrender! ABC maybe its never to late for you to see..why we never win...the infrastructure is such the corporate ladder engages in the criminal element///Nothing new! This is how they keep their money..and it starts from the corporate executives who have one eye in the sky and one in Mom's apple Pie...Don't blame Presidents...Corporations run this country...not the President...He just responds when all else is failed...or someone up top lets him in on it...The United Nations have their own power..why not czars that the corporations share and exchange...Come south and dig deep..the core is centered in the heart of professionals, in every office...just depends who you cn buy....and for how high they will go...Apache

This is my questions for the americans Who are you especting is gonna fight for your right if you do not do it.?? the chinise? or the russians?