Review of Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) by Ryan N — 10 Jul 2007

See it. One more way our government has let us down. The movie, however, has little about the background or reasons to war, or the contractors ties to the defense industry since the privatization of military logistics under Bush I and Clinton.

When you combine all the obscenity of the Iraq war profits and negligence of services with the connections and profits made its gross. However, it should have gone into the development of this contracting system beginning with Cheney as Sec Def under Bush I.

After he left office in 1992 Cheney alone made $30 million as Halliburton CEO. Now they're getting no-bid contracts throughout the war and their company's size is doubling repeatedly. Where do you think Cheney's going when he leaves office? It all makes me want to stab someone.

Our military industrial complex has turned into straight up highway robbery. $45 a six-pack of arab cola, $100 for a load of laundry, an hour line for the chow hall with insurgents shooting at you, cadillac escalades for halliburton managers, $75,000 trucks destroyed because repairing them isn't as profitable to the company as buying a new one, billions of dollars unaccounted for, wtf.

"Cost plus" programs. The more they spend, the more profit margins they can skim off, and before you know it Halliburton stock has quadrupled in 3 years. The fucking republicans were all onboard or not paying attention, they deserved to be removed from power.