Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers

The Iraq war makes perfect sense for defense contractors like Blackwater USA, Halliburton KBR, and Titan Corporation, which pocket billions of tax dollars as they demonstrate capitalism at its most remorseless. Protected from prosecution, their personnel sometimes trained by U.S. soldiers, these companies pull off such scams as charging $99 for each bag of poorly washed laundry (soldiers are forbidden to clean their own) and making dangerous delivery runs to needy soldiers even though the trucks are empty. MoveOn house director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price) is a mediocre filmmaker, but this expos

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