>In most cases, I would normally call this> an absolutely breathtaking expose by the Chicago Tribune on Iraqi war profiteering by subcontractors, but in the case of this report, mere adjectives fail to connote the significance of the scope of crimes committed.
According to the Trib: “Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war’s largest troop support contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers plunged their boots into Iraqi sand. The graft continued well beyond the 2004 congressional hearings that first called attention to it. And the massive fraud endangered the health of American soldiers even as it lined contractors’ pockets, records show.”
But the key graph is definately: “A common thread runs through these cases and other KBR scandals in Iraq, from allegations the firm failed to protect employees sexually assaulted by co-workers to findings that it charged $45 per can of soda: The Pentagon has outsourced crucial troop support jobs while slashing the number of government contract watchdogs.”
There are simply too many damning allegations included in here about Cheney’s former employee Halliburton and its former-subsidiary KBR to bother excerpting. Seriously, just read this whole article and tell me that the privatization of the War on Terror is really a great idea. I predict this story will someday soon be a major motion picture.
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