Who are you madder at? AIG or the thugs who pushed for invading Iraq?

[NNN0LHI]

Poll question: Who are you madder at? AIG or the thugs who pushed for invading Iraq?

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. My rage is bountiful enough for two. nt

[tritsofme]

2. I think if you dig deep enough.

They're the same people.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. The thugs are responsible for both, Don.

[KansDem]

4. Is there a difference?

The only difference I see is that they were working different sides of the street.

[tekisui]

5. Two sides of the same coin.

[KharmaTrain]

6. You Have To Pick?

Different crooks different crimes. Yes, there are some common links in the boooosh regime, but you can't compare two disasters and ask which is worse.

Honestly, I'm not mad at AIG...they gamed the system and got away with it. The anger here is at the lack of any regulation...any oversight for the past 30 years (and no free pass to Clinton on this, his administration looked the other way as well) that allowed the foxes to run and then ruin the henhouse. It's anger at a Phil Gramm who made it possible for all these scams to fly into hyperdrive. AIG should have been audited on a constant basis and their scams detected before they created the mess we're in. The boooosh regime was so proud of it's "ownership society" and this meant looking the other way as greed prevailed over both fiscal responsibility and common sense. But then AIG surely knew that they were too big to fail...and that the government would come to their rescue. They were right.

Those who pushed for the Iraq invasion require international action. Theirs was a different kind of worldwide conspiracy that profited different pockets. Both acts of negligence were criminal and the scope is far beyond what our government or courts can deal with. Here's hoping that the pains the years of Raygunomics and the boooosh regime will prompt the entire world, not just the US, to seek justice. The Hague is where all these criminals need to go.

Cheers...

[northernlights]

7. aren't they the same thugs?

it's all one quivering mass of greed to me.