An Example of Bush Cronyism In Iraq (Link to his AWOL Days)

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Found this story via Today in Iraq who points to a story in the Tuscaloosa News Online edition about an Alabama Bidness Man named Winston Blount IV...does that name ring any bells?

Seems old Winny IV, a member of the Lucky Sperm Club, has set up shop in Iraq to do some bidness...

Winton Blount IV, the grandson of one of Alabama's most successful business executives, didn't stop working in his Baghdad office when a bomb exploded three blocks away at the Red Cross headquarters.
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"I'm not scared, just charged up by the contracts moving forward," he told The Birmingham News in an e-mail.
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"Believe it or not, when I visited my family in September, I missed this awful place," Blount said. "The business side of me can barely sleep because new opportunities arise every day."

Blount's family is no stranger to the Middle East. His late grandfather, Winton "Red" Blount, headed Blount International, which had profitable building projects in Saudi Arabia and Iran during the reign of the Shah.

Name sound a little familiar? Perhaps because of http://www.jsonline.com/election99/ap/jun00/ap-bush-guard062400.asp">this:
"Gov. George W. Bush's campaign workers have concluded that no documents exist showing he reported for duty as ordered in Alabama with the Texas Air National Guard in 1972. They are looking for people who served with him to verify his story that he did.

Dan Bartlett, a spokesman for Bush's Republican presidential campaign, said he reviewed another 200-page packet of documents last week from the National Guard's records repository in Denver.

``I have read it, and there is nothing earth-shattering,'' he said. The campaign was looking for payroll records that would show Bush reported for duty with the Guard in Montgomery, Ala., while working on the unsuccessful Senate campaign of former Postmaster General Winton Blount."

Nothing Earth-Shattering, Danbo? Just that your boy is a fucking deserter...no statute of limitations on that, and even an Honorable Discharge does not make it go away...from your mouth to a Courts-Martial's ears: you could not even find any evidence he actually showed up and reported for duty.

Democratic members of Congress can't visit Iraq to see where and how we are spending that $87 billion dollar negative inheritance we are leaving our kids, but a Crawford Cornhole Confederate can get an office and a fax machine to drop some of it into into their bank accounts...do not pass go; just collect your $200 million dollars.

So here's the relation of the guy that Drinky McDryDrunk tried to get elected to the Senate...gee, from a family that has ties to Saudi Arabia and the 1600 Crew. I am just so surprised...

http://www.usndemvet.com/blog/

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