Robert Greenwald looks at war profiteering in Iraq by private contracting companies Halliburton, CACI, and KBR.
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Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and material to American troops while providing little oversight. Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made by the interviewees. Written by Jim Beaver <[email protected]>
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Just recently saw this on DVD and I have to say it opened my eyes to some of these issues with private contractors. Now I knew already that Halliburton and CACI and all those other companies really had no logical place in a war such as the one in Iraq, but some of the stuff they did like purposefully destroy their own equipment (in some cases sending their own employees in harm's way and having them killed by insurgents) because they would get compensated for it and profits would rise, is just plain monstrous. Not only that, but the amount of money that Congress has subsidized these companies is just incredibly outrageous. Money that could be used towards the $8 TRILLION dollar debt, or improving the health care system, or funding the education system better. And then using private contractors to do intelligence operations, such as interrogations...you saw what happened at Abu Graib
I mean WTF, America it's time to wake up!! Congress is incompetent since the majority always turns down all the major amendments that would control these types of criminal activities, with lobbyists controlling almost all of the legislative branch. And since Deick Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton, you can see where this is connecting the dots.