The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Carvill, John wrote:

>> I hear you, but you don't have to live here
>
> Tsk. We all live 'here'!
>
> It's America's world - we just live in it.
>
> Obama got so much love because he wasn't Bush. But, just like Tony  
> Blair here in 1997, it felt like a hollow victory even before it  
> happened.

It's the Golden Fang, again—still.

There's somebody, more likely a lot of somebodies,  every bit as  
corrupt, as impacted into the war profiteering business as Howard  
Hughes was, right now, in this world, working out these sorts of  
backroom deals with the usual combination of payoffs and threats in  
the hope of amassing even greater profits. Think of Nixon and Hughes,  
all the outright bribes, the level of sleaze at the bottom of the  
Watergate burglary and how far and how fast it spread into the rest of  
the country. Think of how much further and widespread payoffs to  
congress-people via lobbyists have become in our time.

You don't mess with the Golden Fang . . .