Wow. I looked at the story you sited. Not only does it rely on shaky local sources, but it is horribly written. I can't believe that was posted by a "legitimate" news service. It looks like the worst kind of sloppy blog writing. Notice that it makes no mention of even trying to get verification from outside the local area, and it holds up the specter of gun confiscation and makes Charleton Heston look heroic. I mean local news is always bad, sensational, fear monering -- but honestly the story about the government doesn't scare me nearly as much as the idea that most americans may be getting their view of the world from sources like this one.
Olin ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Sharkey<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:20 AM Subject: Brin: Financial waste in Iraq Rolling Stone has a long article on wasteful spending and outright thievery by civilian contractors in Iraq: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle> I know it's not exactly news that people are swindling the government. It's the government's complicity in it as detailed in the article that's truly disgusting. There's also a story floating around that clergy are being trained to quell dissent in the case of martial law. This one sounds like some crazy left-wing conspiracy nut went off his meds, but it was reported on KLSA-TV in Louisiana, so it's not like it's just on some random blog out in the Internet wilderness: http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987<http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987> I dunno. It sounds crazy. But a plausible kind of crazy, which is maybe the craziest thing of all: The Administration has done enough shady shit to make this sort of thing sound like it might happen. Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com<http://www.excite.com/> The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l<http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
