[lit-ideas] Re: Rumsfeld the Iconoclast
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:32:01 -0800
Eric wrote:
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/security/article_2128425.shtml
"For the 11th-largest defense contractor in the United States, wartime
is boom time. No one knows that better than the Carlyle Group, which
less than a month after U.S. troops began bombing Afghanistan filed to
take public its crown jewel of defense, United Defense, a company it has
owned for nearly a decade. That this company is even able to go public
is testament to the Carlyle Group's pull in Washington.
As Joe Costello puts it: "So forget Abramoff and Duke Cunningham. The
bipartisan influence peddling that gets DC contracts in the billions is
best and most loathsomely represented by the Carlyle Group. They make
nothing. They sell influence.
As the Village Voice says. Or were you responding to my post re Rummy
and the Carlyle Group? (Serious question; this followed hard upon it.)
Robert Paul
Reed College
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