Seriously, this is getting out of control.

How long are we going to allow American contractors to directly harm our war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan?  When are we going to demand accountability for this garbage?  At what point does flagrantly corrupt and inefficient work become treasonous? 

We all know about KBR, but today we learn of some new scum bags.

AEY Inc.  $300 million dollage federal contract.  They are the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan's army and police force.

So what do they do with this massive contract?  They cut corners to increas their profitability at the EXPENSE of our war effort in Afghanistan. 

Since winning the contract last January, "the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed."

Okay so their providing obsolete munitions for $300 million dollars.  Great.  But to make matters worse:

"In purchasing munitions, the contractor has also worked with middlemen and a shell company on a federal list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.

Moreover, tens of millions of the rifle and machine-gun cartridges were manufactured in China, making their procurement a possible violation of American law. The company’s president, Efraim E. Diveroli, was also secretly recorded in a conversation that suggested corruption in his company’s purchase of more than 100 million aging rounds in Albania, according to audio files of the conversation."

There's been a lot of talk around here about prominent liberals in America hurting the war effort and emboldening our enemies with their rhetoric.  Call after call has been made, demanding accountability for their words.

When are you all going to stand up for our troops and demand accountability from American contractors that are literally ROBBING America, while directly hampering our attempts to achieve victory abroad?

For AEY, the Army finally suspended their contract, but it took a year of garbage ammunition.  This type of corruption is pervasive and these contractors are committing treason.

Time to end the madness.  How can we expect our troops to win when American companies won't even do what we've contracted them to do?

Truly sickening. 

LINK

As my dad would say -- UFB (just UFB - he wouldn't actually say the entire phrase - I mean that).

Imagine if several Republicans went to discuss issues 'diplomatically' with Slobodan Milosevic just as the US was preparing to attack under Clintons so-called watch. You would still hear the MSM talking about the end of the Republican party today.  

heard this reported on Bloomberg radio this morning - no party affiliation mentioned of course....

Now I admit the following story doesn't mean Obama sought or agrees with this below mentioned nut...

but this is what happens when you run a campaign of utter vacuity, empty rhetoric of the most banal kind, and keep nuts like Rev. Wright-On on board to frame you...

Barack Obama has picked up another celebrity endorsement!

Shaban AbdelRaheem, the Egyptian pop singer whose best-known hit song is titled, “I Hate Israel.” Yep, that's our friends the Egyptians. The hugely popular Egyptian pop singer is best known for his controversial political songs and outrageous style.

Now he's releasing a new track celebrating the end of Bush's presidency—and endorsing Obama. In an interview last week with Dar Al-Hayat, Rahim said that Obama is (roughly translated) “a good man, kindhearted, and better than Bush.”

Rahim, also known by his nickname “Shaabolla,” gained international notoriety in 2000 when he released the song “I Hate Israel.” (The song’s subtitle, “But I love Amr Moussa,” refers to Egypt's former foreign minister and head of the Arab League.)

But while they allowed “Israel” to be broadcast they banned his follow-up tune praising Osama Bin Laden. (Its chorus: "Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Bin Laden.")

Other songs he has rolled out include “Hey People, It Was Only a Tower” after 9/11; “Don't Hit Iraq” in 2003; and “We Are All Out of Patience” about the Mohammed cartoon controversy in 2006.

You gotta laugh your head off.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Here is a video of Hillary being under fire in Bosnia

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.-Lewis Grizzard

...I am sorry, I am a compassionate conservative, but this?

From $70K to food bank, one family's struggle:

"Guerrero is estranged from her husband and raising her two young children. She's already burned through her savings to help make ends meet, and is drawing unemployment checks. She has had to take extreme measures to pay for her interest-only mortgage of $2,500 a month. In fact, her mother moved in with her to help pay the bills.

Guerrero even applied for food stamps, but was denied."

http://www.cnn.com/2...

I have six kids, not two, and a $1200 mortgage that includes principle, hers is interest only at $2500?

People must be using"new math" to do their finances these days.

update: oops, she may be Hispanic, does this make me "racist"?

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced. - George Will

EnDash The Saddam-paid trip by Bonior and his pals has already had its news coverage, small as it's been. I doubt we'll see much more in print than has already appeared. After all, they're not Republicans.

Cheney WA, actually.  But close enough, and truly a proud day for all of us!

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=14289

-PJ

"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07

One more thing I just thought of that every sane person in the world can enjoy.

Apparently, there's a group of weirdos whose sole purpose is to debunk Scientology (as if it needed debunking).

They claim that L. Ron Hubbard plagarized his religion. The original was written in 1934 by some German guy. Here's the original. Ha.

Take that Scientology! Now you're crazy and stupid!

People often say that religion has become more important in
politics. In a way unimaginable in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, these
days politicians, pundits, and pollsters give explicit attention to
religion. In his famous speech nearly fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy
tried to reassure his listeners that religion was irrelevant to
politics, while this year Mitt Romney wanted to convince us that his
faith has a good and proper influence over his life as a public
servant. The preacher-politician Mike Huckabee won in the Iowa caucus.
The Democratic party continues to try to rally voices on the religious
left in order to counter the religious right. Books get written
defending and descrying [sic] the role of faith in politics. Europeans look
on in dismay. How could anybody deny that America has entered a phase
of God-saturated politics?

But what seems obvious may be an optical illusion. I’m pretty sure
that religion has become less influential rather than more so in recent
decades. Today unbelief has a strong voice, and this new secular
confidence throws the role of faith in public life into sharp relief as
a quite distinct alternative. Religious conviction is less widespread,
especially less widespread among the rich and powerful who tend to
formulate and finance political platforms, and therefore it becomes
more controversial. It is now a wedge issue rather than part of our
common culture.

But I get ahead of myself. The story of Christianity in America is
various and fascinating. One feature that stands out is our remarkable
exceptionalism. Unlike Europe, the expansion of literacy, the vote, and
economic opportunity did not erode religious faith. On the contrary,
from the abolitionism of Wendell Phillips to the entrepreneurial
self-image of Andrew Carnegie, the most progressive, modern sentiments
were often expressed in explicitly theological terms. Our temples to
liberty in Washington and our ziggurats of wealth in New York did not
stand against the ancient faith of the apostles.

Today we often adopt a superior tone when we criticize our history.
The ways in which American religion underwrote our westward expansion,
the Gospel of Wealth, invocations of divine favor on the eve of
battle—it can all seem a hopeless tangle of worldly loyalties and
divine truths. As Stanley Hauerwas never tires of reminding us, when
the gospel becomes a useful rhetoric for national self-assertion, then
the salt tends to lose it savor. But one fact remains indisputable: In
all its compromises with secular trends, the predominant Protestant
ethos of America remained extraordinarily influential....

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Source: First Things / R.R. Reno

h/t TownHall.com
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