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Thread #58243 Message #920852
Posted By: Greg F.
28-Mar-03 - 06:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pigs at the Trough
Subject: BS: Pigs at the Trough
The real reasons behind the Iraq idiocy are starting to float to the surface. Here's just one example of "the Liberation of the Iraqi people", more to follow, I'm sure. Its drawing those Republicans just like flies to shit.
----- Battle over Iraqi Mobile Network Begins
Paul Hamilos Friday March 28, 2003
With the war in Iraq barely nine days old, a Republican congressman has begun campaigning over the country's postwar telecommunications network.
Darrell Issa, from southern California, has introduced a bill calling for the US government to adopt a mobile phone network in postwar Iraq that, if introduced, would benefit the American economy at the expense of the Gulf state's ability to communicate with the outside world.