BWAHAHA!! Spoken like a true chicken hawk, QM.

From this day forward, this comment will be linked to for any pro-Iraq nonsense you spout off with!

Best way to win a fight in Iraq is to not be there when it starts, and run if you are. (Then send in poor people and war profiteers to continue your mess)

I think the MoveOn ad against Patraeus was spot on; we should be "getting in their faces" like that every chance we get, because it's the only thing the conservative republican pro-war profiteers respond to.

They're not fooling anybody: they can denounce the ad all they want, but they cannot address the truth of it. People know that, and people are starting to see that.

A lot of people, myself included, joined MoveOn because of that ad, and MoveOn rasied a half-million dollars as a result of it.

"Haliburton, KBR, Boeing, and all of the war profiteers are doing quite well, thank you."

Ah, so they're behind the attacks too are they? Tie in the Cubans and the Mafia and you've got yourself an Oliver Stone movie!

"Lets say that it was done by Bush. Why? What did he gain from it? He put us in a war that's going horribly...."

For whom? Haliburton, KBR, Boeing, and all of the war profiteers are doing quite well, thank you.

"If you mean destroying evidence, I believe that the structures of the planes were unlikely to survive the collapse of buildings of this height and magnitude."

I mean, that the buildings were more than capable of withstanding the alledged "pancake effect."

When mass falls and encounters more mass, it slows, it does not accelerate; we witnessed an accelleration in all three towers.

WTC7 has still not been explained. It was not hit by a plane, nor was it significantly damaged, yet it fell in a matter of seconds down upon itself.

It's no use. 9/11 was an inside job.

Nothing will change your mind, and I really don't give a fuck any more.

If you are my countrymen, I want a new country.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle/

Like most contractors, Custer Battles was on a cost-plus arrangement, which means its profits were guaranteed to rise with its spending. But according to testimony by officials and former employees, the partners also charged the government millions by making out phony invoices to shell companies they controlled. In another stroke of genius, they found a bunch of abandoned Iraqi Airways forklifts on airport property, repainted them to disguise the company markings and billed them to U.S. tax­payers as new equipment. Every time they scratched their asses, they earned; there was so much money around for contractors, officials literally used $100,000 wads of cash as toys. "Yes -- $100 bills in plastic wrap," Frank Willis, a former CPA official, acknowledged in Senate testimony about Custer Battles. "We played football with the plastic-wrapped bricks for a little while."

The Custer Battles show only ended when the pair left a spreadsheet behind after a meeting with CPA officials -- a spreadsheet that scrupulously detailed the pair's phony invoicing. "It was the worst case of fraud I've ever seen, hands down," says Grayson. "But it's also got to be the first instance in history of a defendant leaving behind a spreadsheet full of evidence of the crime."

But even being the clumsiest war profit­eers of all time was not enough to bring swift justice upon the heads of Mr. Custer and Mr. Battles -- and this is where the story of America's reconstruction effort gets really interesting. The Bush administration not only refused to prosecute the pair -- it actually tried to stop a lawsuit filed against the contractors by whistle-blowers hoping to recover the stolen money. The administration argued that Custer Battles could not be found guilty of defrauding the U.S. government because the CPA was not part of the U.S. government. When the lawsuit went forward despite the administration's objections, Custer and Battles mounted a defense that recalled Nuremberg and Lt. Calley, arguing that they could not be guilty of theft since it was done with the government's approval.

That's nonsense. You can't pretend to know how widely I read. It's you who seems incapable of critical thinking.

"We helped maintain peace after world war 2. We've raised the economic and social standards of other countries."

The first statement is too laughable to take seriously. The list of wars, invasions, proxy wars, violent overthrow of governments, assassinations, the School of the Americas, support for tyrants and dictators, the economic plunder of countless third world nations, war-profiteering, etc., is very long indeed.

You've raised the social standards for the elites of other countries.

But keep making your assumptions about me and grafting them to some imaginary ideology of mine -- I will enjoy knocking your straw men apart.

More teen masturbatorial material for the acne challenged. Let's see- it STILL hasn't been proven to work. Sorry for clouding the issue with facts.

Anybody figure out how it will protect us against a dirty suitcase bomb? An attack on a chemical plant (which STILL have not been secured according to the recommendations of the 9-11 Homeland Security group)? Boxcutters? A reservoir? An IED, for christ's sake?

Thought not. That IS the problem, isn't it? No thought, all glitz. It's what these corpse-orations do quite well. And please spare me the outdated fear-mongering of a discredited neocon, corporation suckhole. The no-bid, no-review war profiteers are doing landmark business at the cost of soldiers lives and limbs.

It's not what cost freedom. It's what cost corporate profit?

theo, I don't understand. What facts did I get wrong? Dems want (and needed) Repub votes to pass an additional spending bill to fund Iraq and Afghanistan (and some for the vets).

Ever hear of power of the purse. And "only Congress shall declare war". If it's not a war, then what is it? And they could very easily end this through reduced supplement funding. (Half of which goes to Military contractors and war profiteers)

Wow.. I can't believe THIS is already on here. This should be required viewing for all Americans. Like Teddy's regrets about the Federal Reserve, Ike really worried about leaving the country to war profiteers and oil tycoons.

wow, this is very, very sad. betrayals of trust on the part of war profiteers ending with children and babies not having basic hospital treatment available. An important point is noted at the end; Iraq's healthcare services were envied in the middle east before the war, and it was not the 3rd world country it is today.

... another interesting part is the scene at 31 minutes, when the narrator, an Iraqi doctor, relates how his house was raided by US troops the night before, who made a 'mistake' and later gave him $1,500 to repair the car and house which they smashed before he was hooded and taken to a military base.

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Very nicely produced. The idea of of weapons manufacturers being involved in promoting wars is certainly not new though. You can call it "war corporatism" if you want, but it used to be called the military-industrial complex. And around the time of the first world war, it was called war profiteering.

This piece is very slick, with a high production value, but is also high on assertion and low on actual information.