What do you know about war profiteering in iraq?
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Haliburton is to blame.
52107
First off, The entire iraqi war on terror was in part to protect the oils assets. Which means the Bush family fortune.\nYes it is a scam. Why else would oil commpany executives and CEOs be questioned and put ontrial and even scolded by our congress. They are making "Not billions" but Trillions of dollars off of common people while our government fabricates things to protect the oil assets. Are they truly in danger? Who knows.\nIts one huge cover up. Europe is used to paying 6 dollars per gallon. So we don't get any sympothy from them at all. They say quite your snivveling. but the truth is we are the ones getting scammed big time! is there anything we common folks can do about it, probably not or at least I am not sure.
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No it is not, the money is used to allegedly support the troops and to supposedly rebuild Iraq's infrastructure. Actually, it's $10 billion a month (not per day) being spent.\nImagine for a moment if that money was used for education of OUR citizens, or for health insurance, or to help the homeless. The war is a scam! The oil in Iraq was supposed to pay for the war, but you know how that goes when you have an oil man in the White House.
804602
The war in Iraq, corruptions, lies, and hypocrisy.
863458
Thank you!!!!!!! What is the figure again?? One Billion US$/day to be in Iraq.........But that`s not even close to be as troubling as the number of casualties on all sides especially that the whole thing is based on a fool LYING to the world through his teeths!!
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A. The president, his followers, and any people who follow blindly.\n\nB. As many of you know, war is BIG BUSINESS, and profit is huge for many private companies during war times. Think of it: companies get contracted to supply guns, armor(whether the soldiers get it or not), artillery, bombs, food, water, tents, uniforms, communications equipment, and even gas that our vehicles run on. Also, private contractors have been hired to rebuild parts of Iraq. While war costs an unbelievable amount of money (paid through taxes, tariffs, etc.), an even bigger amount stands to be made by private corporations. Sickening really.
1060682
That's not just Conservatives, it's the US political machine in general.  War makes money and money makes great pocket stuffers during campaign time from businesses who profit from the war.  Just follow the money....
871006
All of the above are true,however there is a lot more going on I have heard so many compelling stories from really solid sources. Even Gog back to Gulf one, very creditable sources say although U.S. gov. and Saddam were great Friends all through Saddam's with Iran. The U.S. selling him the only chemical weapons he ever had (U.S. knew this, and the fact that even if Saddam did not get of those chemical weapons like he said. by time of invasion Gulf two those chemicals would be way too degraded to be usable) anyways, #1 was not for oil but control of price.  You see Saddam did something unpredictable which jolted a few guys in Huston, who would never again trust him or sleep peacefully until "Regime Change" (though he got the message loud and clear after gulf1) but he had already promised it would never happen again, he said did realize Houston Texas would re-act so violently. He had assumed everybody in U.S. were apostles of free markets, supply and demand etc.\n   What he did was declare that in sympathy for the Palestinians, he was going to cut back the amount of oil produced per day.  That's when  the Houston  boys decided he had to go.\n  One interesting little thing you never hear them talking about in the news is that before Gulf 2, due to the 12 crippling years of sanctions Saddam was considering changing Iraq's currency from the dollar to the Euro.
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Well no ones answer will be objective (except for mine of course LOL).  The fact is that their were multiple  Terrorist training camps in Iraq and bush made it clear that we are against any country that harbors terrorists.  Sodom Hussein also gassed thousands of curds.  Leading to the weapons of mass destruction accusation.  Manly he was an incompetent leader who had invaded other countries before and wouldn’t have a problem with doing any thing that would kill innocent people.  And no it wasn’t for oil.  If it was than why am I pay so much for it.
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You have to remember for every action there is a reaction - often the two are shades of grey - not black and white. With that said, here is my take; Even a natural disaster employs various contractors which buy building supplies and naturally fill their pockets... But that does not mean we can make the correlation that contractors get rich from such things, nor would they hope it would happen just to be employed. Yes, a war will open avenues of various revenues. I think more importantly what bothers me is the contractor corruption that is involved in this war. Gouging the government for contracted services, and outsourcing completely unneccesary services with limited oversight. I saw it first hand while I was over there and it makes me sick! I would be willing to bet the number is higher than 500 - but I will get off my potato stand now.
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George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have lately been touting three sets of statistics to justify their claims of great progress in Iraq. First, they say, we've trained 100,000 Iraqi security forces. Second, 31 other countries are contributing troops as part of the vast international coalition. Third, Iraqi reconstruction is moving along on schedule, thanks to the $18.4 billion in U.S. economic aid.\n\nYet the U.S. State Department's most recent Iraq Weekly Status Report, dated Oct. 6, reveals that all three of those claims are either false or so misleading that they might as well be.\n\nFirst, it's true there are 100,000 Iraqi security forces, about three-quarters of whom are police, army troops or National Guardsmen. But that falls far short of the 272,000 forces that the report calculates are required. (For a breakdown of how many trained security forces exist and how many are needed, by category, click here.) \nSecond, about those 31 coalition members: All told, according to the report, they're contributing about 24,000 troops. The British alone are supplying about 8,000. So the remaining 30 countries have a total of 16,000 troops in Iraq—an average of just over 500 troops per country. The United States has about 130,000 troops over there—more than five times as many as all the other 31 countries combined. (For a full list of the countries involved—which include such powerhouses as Albania, Azerbaijan, and Tonga—click here.) This is not a coalition in the recognized sense of that word.\n\nCompare those figures with these: During the 1991 Gulf War (according to U.S. Central Command's official history of that conflict), 37 other nations took part, sending a total of 270,000 armed forces, flying 30,000 air sorties, and suffering one-third of combat fatalities. Among the nations sending at least one army division were Egypt and Syria. Now that's a coalition.*\n\nMore damning are the report's figures on Iraqi reconstruction. Yes, the U.S. Congress has appropriated $18.4 billion for this effort; but, according to the report, the authorities on the ground in Iraq have spent just $1.3 billion—about 7 percent of the money set aside.\n\nThe specifics of this disparity are still more depressing. For security and law enforcement, $3.2 billion was appropriated, but only $646 million has been spent. For electricity, $5.4 billion was appropriated, $330 million spent. For water resources and sanitation, $4.2 billion was appropriated, a pathetic $23 million spent. For oil infrastructure, $1.7 billion was appropriated, just $47 million spent. For justice, public safety and civil society, $1 billion was appropriated, $55 million spent. For health care, $786 million was appropriated, but $4 million spent. For transportation and communication, $500 million was appropriated, $12 million spent. And the list goes on.\n\nAlthough the State Department issued this report, you will not find it—or its weekly updates—on the State Department's Web site. Nor will you find it on the site of the Agency for International Development (though AID does have a similar report, with far vaguer and rosier figures). Instead, you'll find it on the Web site of the U.S. Commerce Department's Iraq Investment and Reconstruction Task Force—in short, on a site for businesses that need to know what's really happening over there. \n\nWhat's really happening—in numbers as clear as day—is that the training of security forces is proceeding way too slowly, the coalition is a misnomer, and reconstruction has barely got off the ground.\n\nCorrection, Oct. 8, 2004: The piece originally misstated the number of non-U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War coalition. It originally said that the non-U.S. coalition partners sent "a total of 800,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, as well as 300 combat support battalions, over 225 naval vessels, and 2,800 fixed-wing aircraft. Those aircraft flew 112,000 sorties and droppe
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Bush and the oil companies record profits. If there wasn't record profits there wouldn't be any problem. They are gouging America, and Bush is allowing it to happen.
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http://www.iraqbodycount.net/\nhttp://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182\n\nthough I think they may count insurgents as civi's.\n\nI am sorry, but I am more concerned about the monitary value of this war than the iraqi lives lost. Unfortunately it is not equaling up for me. I think we should pull out before this poor excuse for a economic boost kills our markets even more.\n\n9/11, USS Cole, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania *2, OK City, and so on are facts of life. It is part of being the most powerful nation on Earth, you piss off alot of people to get there.
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I personally agree. But try telling that to private war contractors, the defense industry, wall street traders and investors, and big oil executives. This is one messed up world. And greed appears to be the most popular sin. By far. It is no contest. And that is the sole reason for ALL wars. Even wars that appear to be religious or cultural disputes. Money is behind every war.
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It is sad that the good people of the armed forces are losing their lives for a political war, it is about one thing, then another, guy above me is a neo-con operitive, it was never about freeing the people of Iraq from anything. It was all about greed, you can see that everytime that you fill your tank. Not one life is worth it, not one.
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I strongly disagree. The war hawks lied about WMD`s and other reasons for the attack on Iraq. It goes much deeper than Saddam being a tyrant. There are more people dying in Iraq now than under Saddam. So the liberation lie is no good there. In any action one must ask the question who is to gain. Yes indeed big oil and halliburton and Israel, who is to gain?\n\nTHE REAL REASON WE ARE AT WAR!\n\n\nTIME MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 13, 2000 - Page 34\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE\n\nSADDAM TURNS HIS BACK ON GREENBACKS\n\nEurope's dream of promoting the euro as a competitor\nto the U.S. dollar may get a boost from SADDAM HUSSEIN.\nIraq says that from now on, it wants payments for its\noil in euros, despite the fact that the battered\nEuropean currency unit, which use to be worth quite\na bit more than $1, has dropped to about 82 cents.\nIraq says it will no longer accept dollars for oil\nbecause it does not want to deal "in currency of the\nenemy."\n\nThe switch to euros would cost the U.N. a small\nfortune in accounting paperwork changes. It would also\nreduce the interest earnings and reparations payments\nthat Iraq is making for damage it caused during the Gulf War,\na shortfall the Iraqis would have to make up.\n\nThe move hurts Iraq, the U.N. and the countries receiving\nreparations. So why is Saddam doing it? Diplomatic\nsources say switching to the euro will favor European\nsuppliers over U.S. ones in competing for Iraqi contracts,\nand the p.r. boost that Baghdad would probably get in\nEurope would be another plus.\n\n\nJust days after the WTC attack, on September 20, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not exactly play the role of statesman when he demanded of the US Congress that America must wage war not just on Afghanistan, but must also attack all of Israel's enemies, real and perceived, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. \n\nHe was clearly capitalizing on American heartbreak to further his own self-interest and that of Israel's. \n\nIsraeli apologists in the Bush government immediately fell all over themselves in disgusting agreement. \n\nUnder Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz demanded an attack on Iraq. \n\nDefense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle wanted us to start bombing Egypt. \n\nIt was reminiscent of the screams of one of the Columbine high school killers:   "Kill 'em all!!!!" \n\nIt was a cynical ploy on Netanyahu's part, but intelligence reports since then indicate he may get his way yet. \n\nThe Five Dancing Israelis\nArrested On 9-11\n\nAs the world watched in disbelief and asked the question... \n \n...Mossad operatives were seen dancing with joy.\n\n A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11.\n\nThe men set up cameras by the Hudson River and trained them on the twin towers. (1) \n\nPolice received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2)\n\n"They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me" said a witness. (3)\n\n[T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4) \n\nWitnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6)\n \nThe FBI sent out an alert to area cops, reading: "Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack . . . Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion." (7)\n\n"It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." (8)  \n\nOne anonymous phone call to the authoriti
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The negative media focuses on the death, destruction and combative situations because that is what sells commercials and advertisements.  Stories about new schools, new medical centers, and Mosques are not going to sell commercials.  There is plenty of good news, and 70% of Iraq lives in realitive peace compared to the 30% we see portrayed in the media.\n\nNow the impact is simple - less then 1/2 of the population supports the US action in Iraq thanks to this portrayal by the media.  Eventually, if it continues, the clear population could cause the end of our support for the new country and that would be devastating in the long term.  Very sad.