Frosty Wooldridge -- Iraq: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Screwed?
CERTAINLY SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN DIDN'T GET SCREWED FROM THE WARS SHE VOTED FOR IN IRAQ!
FEINSTEIN, ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, HAS MADE MANY VAST FORTUNES OFF ELECTED OFFICE AND IS THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
JUST MILES FROM HER S.F. HOTEL, WHERE LA RAZA ENDORSED FEINSTEIN HIRES ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, FEINSTEIN LIVES IN A $16 MILLION DOLLAR WAR PROFITS MANSION, ONE OF MANY SHE'S ACQUIRED WHILE IN ELECTED OFFICE.
FEINSTEIN AND HER PIMP-HUSBAND, RICHARD C. BLUM, HAVE HANDED OUT BIG CAMPAIGN BRIBES TO DEMS ALL OVER THE NATION SO THEY KEEP THEIR MOUTH SHOUT ABOUT THE SELF-SERVING CORRUPTION OF FEINSTEIN, AND HER LAP BITCH, THE UTTERLY WORTHLESS LA RAZA ENDORSED BARBARA BOXER. THE FEINSTEIN'S HAVE PAID BRIBES TO MAKE SURE THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY INVESTIGATIONS INTO FEINSTEIN'S WAR PROFITEERING, DEALS FOR RED CHINA, OR THE MANY DEALS FEINSTEIN HAS PUSHED IN THE SENATE THAT INTERESTINGLY PUT LOOT IN BLUM'S POCKETS!
YOU SAW FEINSTEIN AT OBAMA'S INAUGURAL ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITAL, WITH BLUM SITTING JUST BEHIND OABAMA, PROBABLY PICKING POCKETS FOR DEALS!
OTHER DEMS THAT HAVE COLLECTED FEINSTEIN'S DIRTY MONEY INCLUDE NOT ONLY OB AMA, BUT CLINTON, BOXER, KERRY, KENNEDY, AND THE OTHER WAR WHORE, JOE LIEBERMAN.
Diane Feinstein profits from war in Iraqby
John Smyth Thursday, Apr. 24, 2003 at 11:22 AM
Army contract for Feinstein's
husband Blum is a director of firm that will get up to $600 million David R.
Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, April 22, 2003 ©2003 San Francisco
Chronicle Feedback URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL
URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth
up to $600 million. The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems
training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense
jobs snared by URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics
contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.
Government contracting has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress and
citizen groups, with critics decrying the political connections of firms
winning lucrative jobs. Richard Blum, Feinstein's husband, serves on the
company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock,
according to Hoover's Inc. research firm. A Feinstein spokesman Monday declined
to comment on the contract. (FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE NEVER COMMENTS ON BLUM DEALS
THAT HAVE MADE HER FILTHY RICH. CALL HER OFFICE AND ASK HER HOW MUCH SHE’S MADE
SELLING US OUT TO CHINA SPIES!)Blum and several URS representatives could not
be reached for comment. A Pentagon spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the
contract. URS brought in more than $2.4 billion in revenue during 2002.
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Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering
By Joshua Frank 02/28/06 "
rickburner.org"
It happens all the time. If the antiwar movement takes on the Democrats
for their bitter shortcomings, a few liberals are bound to criticize us for not
hounding Bush instead. It doesn't even have to be an election year to get the progressives
fired up. They just don't seem to get it. "How can you attack the
Democrats when we have such a bulletproof administration ruling the roost in
Washington?" somebody recently e-mailed me. "Don't you have something
better to do than write this trash?!"Well, not really. It's too cold in
upstate New York right now to do anything other than fume over the liberal
villains in Washington. "Why do I write about the putrid Democratic
Party?" I responded, "I'll tell you, there's a reason this Republican
administration is so damn bulletproof – nobody from the opposition party is
taking aim and pulling the trigger."And that's why the Dems are just as
culpable in all that has transpired since Bush took office in 2000. They aren't
just a part of the problem – the Democrats are the problem.I mean, who is
really all that surprised Bush and his boys wanted to conquer the Middle East?
Not me. That's just what unreasonable neocons do: they stomp out the little
guy, kill off the weak, and suffocate the voiceless. They only care about the
girth of their wallets and the number of scalps they can tack above their
mantles. The Democrats aren't just letting the Republicans get away with
murder, however: some of them are also reaping the benefits of the Bush wars.
We constantly hear about Dick Cheney's ties to Halliburton and how his
ex-company is making bundles off U.S. contracts in Iraq. But what we don't hear
about is how Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband are also making
tons of money off the "war on terror."The wishy-washy senator now
claims Bush misled her prior to the invasion of Iraq. I don't think she's being
honest with us, though. There may have been other reasons she helped sell
Bush's lies. According to the Center for Public Integrity, Feinstein's husband
Richard Blum has racked in millions of dollars from Perini, a civil
infrastructure construction company, of which the billionaire investor wields a
75 percent voting share.In April 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave
$500 million to Perini to provide services for Iraq's Central Command. A month
earlier in March 2003, Perini was awarded $25 million to design and construct a
facility to support the Afghan National Army near Kabul. And in March 2004,
Perini was awarded a hefty contract worth up to $500 million for
"electrical power distribution and transmission" in southern
Iraq.Feinstein, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee as well as the
Select Committee on Intelligence, is reaping the benefits of her husband's
investments. The Democratic royal family recently purchased a $16.5 million
mansion in the flush Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It's a
disgusting display of war profiteering, and just like Cheney, the leading
Democrat should be called out for her offense. And that's exactly why the Bush
administration is so darn bulletproof. The Democratic leadership in Washington
is just as crooked and just as callous.
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More on Feinstein's War Dollars
Senator Feinstein's husband has a nice profile at SFGate.
Richard Blum has scored bundles from this war and the millions have been
deposited in his accounts, which he undoubtedly shares with his wife (even if
they aren't, she's certainly reaping the benefits as her salary could not
possibly afford a $16.5 million mansion).
Here are the basics:
Blum holds over 111,000 shares
of stock in URS Corporation, which is now a defense contractor. Blum is the
acting Director of URS which bought EG&G from Carlyle awhile back. URS has
banked on the Iraq war, scoring a phat $600 million contract. They have seen their
stock price more than triple as a result. Blum cashed in over $2 million on
that venture alone and another $100 million for his investment firm.
If this was a Republican
senator's spouse you'd bet the liberals would be up in arms. But since
Feinstein is a Democrat -- mums the word. Partisanship trumps ethics.
The House the War Bought
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