Monday, March 14, 2005
And yet more hypocrisy
From the Financial Times: Venezuela restocks its arsenal
Given the recent history of no bid contracts, unaccounted for funds, etc... these kind of statements coming from the DOD are pretty hard to swallow. Then again, this is pretty much standard operating procedure, just smile and say whatever "needs" to be said and hope nobody notices the hypocrisy and mendacity.
"It's an orgy of corruption," said Roger Pardo-Maurer, deputy assistant secretary for western hemisphere affairs at the US Department of Defense.
Mr Chávez responded last month that the US had no moral authority to make such complaints because it "lied" about the existence of weapons of mass destruction as the principal justification for the invasion of Iraq.
Given the recent history of no bid contracts, unaccounted for funds, etc... these kind of statements coming from the DOD are pretty hard to swallow. Then again, this is pretty much standard operating procedure, just smile and say whatever "needs" to be said and hope nobody notices the hypocrisy and mendacity.
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