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Posted by FoM on August 18, 2001 at 08:54:23 PT By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer Source: Los Angeles Times 
The State Department has directed its largest private contractor in Colombia to hire foreign pilots to fight the drug war, an order that helps get around Congress' attempt to keep the U.S. from slipping further into this country's messy civil war.Last year, Congress limited to 300 the number of civilian contract workers participating in U.S.-financed drug-eradication efforts in Colombia. But in a little-noticed decision, the State Department only counts U.S. citizens toward that limit. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #7 posted by Lehder on August 19, 2001 at 17:37:08 PT |
| Oh, but I forgot - he skips all of those: 8. Skipped all his medical exams after they started drug tests. In April 1972, the military started including routine drug tests in servicemen's annual physical exam, It was May, 1972 -- one month after the drug testing was announced -- that Bush stopped attending http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#drugtest [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #6 posted by Lehder on August 19, 2001 at 17:24:58 PT |
| George W Bush is a pilot, sorta. Could'nt he fly one of these interdiction planes? Oh, but he's on vacation right now. That story has caught my interest. President for six months and he is now taking a month long vacation. As a National Guard recruit, he took a two-month vacation after only eight weeks of service. He took two more vacations while in the National Guard, one of them a year long. http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#vietnam What's he doing on this vacation? I'd like to see him take a drug test. I think we can expect him to be taking a whole lot of lengthy vacations as Resident, same as when he was a pilot. That's fine with me: After just the first week of his present month-long vacation, Jamaica is legalizing. probably best to omit my musings on a revanchinist Japan, her space rockets, her nuclear power industry and her puked on prime minister. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #5 posted by dddd on August 19, 2001 at 02:23:38 PT |
| ...Cheney has already gone way out of bounds in refusing to disclose the identity of the people he met with in his office.The GAO may file a case,,just to get this info... It is an absurd outrage when someone like Cheney,can even think about denying such supposedly innocent information to the public,,,,,, by the way,,his first name is DICK.,,, ,,,,and he's kindof bionic..
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on August 18, 2001 at 14:05:31 PT:
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| Things are getting down to the wire. And the antis know it. The US press has been effectively muzzled. With a very few notable exceptions such as the Village Voice and NarcoNews, their corporate masters have spoken, and the media, dog-like, gaze upon them with adoring - or fearful - eyes. But the foreign press hasn't been so accommodating. They have been kicking up a fuss and sending reporters at great personal risk to the contested areas to discern the truth about what's happening down there. And the result has been quiet censure of the US in the halls of their governments, and not so quiet protests against US involvement in Colombia. Any day now, this will lead to a major diplomatic row, especially with our trade partners in Europe who have extensive commerce with Latin America. So, in order to try to put a fig leaf over an embarrassing fact of failure, the US tries to weasel its’ way out of the letter of the law by hiring non-US mercs to do it’s dirty work. Which has all the sense of administering aspirin for a sucking chest wound. And, mark my words, will blow up in DynCorp’s and the USG’s faces, for security risks abound in this venture; for example,who shipped the bottle containing heroin to the DynCorp HQ in Florida? One of the “Julios”? (USG military slang for Rebel moles; rather like the Chieu Hoi’s of Viet Nam, eh, all you Nam Vets?) A little more of these embarrassing little ‘incidents’, and enough goofs in Congress will awaken from their martini-induced slumbers and start to take a more interested look at how the taxpayer’s dollars are being spent down there. And then, I would strongly suggest that DynCorp and the US DrugWar apparatus invest in easily washed raingear, as things could get a might wet from all the sh*t-throwing that will result. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by FoM on August 18, 2001 at 14:00:59 PT |
| Hi Seth, That's new to me. If you have a link that you could post here in a comment it would be well read I'm sure. If that's true it's most definitely wrong. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #2 posted by Seth Olsen on August 18, 2001 at 13:35:56 PT:
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| I cannot hide my amazement that there has been no public uproar over the fact that our vice-president has a substantial financial interest in Dyncorp. To the best of my knowledge, he is one of their biggest stockholders. This is likely the most damning and, lets face it, OBVIOUS AND EASILY REPORTABLE conflicts of interest that are present in our current adminstration. Although I hear occasional marginal mention of it in stories I read on this site and others, there has been no reporting dedicated solely to this. I find this fact to be incredibly wierd and suspicious. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on August 18, 2001 at 12:41:04 PT:
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| How many more of these stories does Amerika have to hear before the whole country is racked by nausea from the War on Drugs? What difference does it make if a pilot gets shot down? I guess that an innocent woman and and a pre-verbal female child don't count, nor do innumerable collateral campesinos on the ground in Colombia. I am deadly serious when I accuse this country and its leaders of war crimes, and crimes against Nature. I hope that international bodies will censure the whole lot. The populace needs to rebel against this atrocity funded with our dollars and carried out in our names. END THE WAR! [ Post Comment ] |
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