Mon 22 Jun, 2009
Is this the fifty-second corruption case brought to court or the fifty-first?
Two U.S. military officials pleaded guilty to various bribery, fraud and conspiracy charges relating to Department of Defense (DOD) contracts in Afghanistan.
Christopher P. West, a U.S. Army Major from Chicago who served in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2005, pleaded guilty to charges contained in the superseding indictment including three counts of bribery and three counts of conspiracy. West admitted to accepting $90,000 cash from contractors in exchange for awarding DOD contracts at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Bagram Airfield…why does that name sound so familiar?” and I can answer that for you. Bagram Airfield is home to Bagram prison, which is Barack Obama’s Guantanamo Bay.
See while most Americans are bitching about Guantanamo Bay and how unconstitutional it is, they remain willfully ignorant about Bagram prison. They don’t know about the 60 million taxpayers’ dollars being spend to expand it. They don’t know about the abuse and torture that has gone on there. They don’t know about these corrupt fucks issuing million dollar no-bid contracts to corporations.
But what most Americans don’t know is it’s their tax dollars that is paying for all this shit.
Which is funny since our government is telling us there isn’t enough money in the budget to fix the health care system. Yet they can spend our money to continue fighting two fucking wars. They can spend our money to bailout Wall Street. They can spend our money to bailout the auto industry.
But they can’t spend our money to fix the educational system or provide shelter for the homeless or create jobs for the jobless.
And this blows my fucking mind. Why does our government spend billions of dollars on war without complaining, but bitches like a sexually frustrated housewife when it comes to health care and education? I don’t understand it.
But maybe I’m not supposed to understand it. Maybe I’m suppose to sit here and jerk-off to Glenn Beck’s Common Sense Comedy Tour. Yeah that’s it. I’m just going to sit here with my huge tub of J&Y Jelly and let Glenn Beck’s soothing voice calm me down.
Tags: Bagram prison, Christopher P. West, Corruption, Department of Defense
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