I saw these articles this evening in an online edition of Vanity Fair Magazine. Both made me angry and sad, but for profoundly different reasons...
- Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice.
- The biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, including a lot of the "expertise" behind the Iraq war...
To get some idea of the scale: contractors absorb the taxes paid by everyone in America with incomes under $100,000. In other words, more than 90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to SAIC or some other contractor rather than to the IRS.



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but yeah... I know how you feel. I hate reading about things I cannot change. fuck "accepting things I cannot change." they fester inside and propel me to do better. anger is a very potent motivator. at least we have that much, yes?? and we exist in a world where we can communicate to others and educate them, as you did with this thread. that's SOmeThiNG! 
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