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Originally Posted by GBBob
I've been trying to stay away from your vendetta, but will say this. Obama has never said he had nothing to do with Rezko...It's been known for a long time that he was an early contributor to Obama and did move his land to him at a discount. From that you move to a conspiracy involving I'm not sure what, but something you think is coming. Honest to god...you could put a gun (or whatever is in Timmi's drawer) to my head and I would say that nothing will come of this Rezko/Obama thing. There are a lot of valid policy points that can be argued about what Obama has been proposing, but they are lost when this grassy knoll stuff is out there.
Guilt by association is a fine line, but when you are a young politician, it is very hard to vette each contributor.
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I think Rezko has more to say than anyone is giving him credit for.
Writing in Human Events, John Batchelor reports on another Alsammarae-Obama-Rezko connection:
“…in April 2005, one month before Mr. Alsammarae left his post, his Ministry of Electricity signed a contract for $50 million with Companion Security to provide training to Iraqis to guard electrical plants by flying them to Illinois for classes.
“Companion Security was headed by a former Chicago policeman with a troubled history, Daniel T. Frawley, in partnership with Mr. Rezko and in association with Daniel Mahru, the lawyer for the original contract and Mr. Rezko's former business partner. In April 2006, Mr. Frawley entered negotiations with Governor Rod Blagojevich's staff to lease a military facility in Illinois to be a training camp. In August 2006, Mr. Frawley started negotiations with Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate staff to complete the contract….
“The timeline of Companion discussions in 2006 is important to note: April 2006 Frawley speaks to governor's office; August 2006 Frawley speaks to senator's office; October 2006 indictment of Rezko revealed; October 2006 Rezko arrested upon return from Syria; October 2006 Alsammarae convicted in Baghdad and makes his first escape attempt; December 2006 Alsammarae escapes from Baghdad. …
“(In 2004) Mr. Auchi traveled by private aircraft to Midway Airport in Chicago and then to a fete at the Four Season Hotel, where he met with his business partner in Chicago real estate, Mr. Rezko, as well as with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Also present that night, according to a fresh report by James Bone and Dominic Kennedy of the London Times, was State Senator Barack Obama, who had recently won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat….”
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Now maybe some things were said and done and maybe they weren't but I for one want to know.