Iraq/USA

So, Bush says that any company that overcharged the US on those fat Iraq contracts (Haliburton being the main culprit) will have to pay back that money. That they will be punished...

Yah right!

Just like Ken Lay and the like were punished, they who looted companies and are still walking around free and rich (Ken Lay had an insurance policy for himself which could not be touched by the creditors... at a grand amount of $12,000,000 so he is still sitting pretty).



I am not expecting anyone to pay back anything here.

This is a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy and by the time the dust clears (phew, those metaphors!!!), nobody will be held accountable and - a few patsies aside - no heads will roll.

The rich and influential will have moved on to the next carcass.

Angry articles will be written, learned treatises will be published and at the end of the day, the modern pirates will still have done exactly what they wanted to with no serious consequences to themselves.



They strip-mine the world and people like me angrily blog about it.

It's probably the dismal autumn weather that makes my view so bleak today.

Tomorrow perhaps, I'll believe there's truly an equality before the law.