Archives

935 Lies

 

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis [...]

$441 for each person on earth

President Bush’s record $3.1 trillion budget request for fiscal 2009 would add $407 billion to the federal debt, which already is more than $3 trillion.

How much can America’s taxpayers continue to cough up to keep the federal government from going bankrupt?

Let’s take a look at that unprecedented $3.1 trillion amount in real [...]

Iraq War Contractors Corruption

KBR?  Halliburton?  The makers of Concentration Camps in the USA?

Inside the world of war profiteers

From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill.—Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring [...]