What is the US doing in IRAQ? Getting rich, of course!

[jillan]

Here is an up to date list of US corporations that are doing business in Iraq.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&fil=IQ







"Piggies" Lyrics

Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse,
Always having dirt
To play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt,
Always have clean shirts
To play around in.
Beatles

[jillan]

1. This site also tells how much they are making AND their ties to the

Repuke party

[noahmijo]

2. I disagree with the notion that US is getting rich off this war

With poverty levels increasing along with joblessness and the economy still in the toilet it's more like old rich white bastard republicans are getting rich off this war.

[drdtroit]

3. You mean the 'GOP'

Greedy Old Plutocrats!

[jillan]

4. You're right, its the US corporations involved that are getting rich

It is not helping us

It's hurting us, and will for a long, long time to come.

[spindoctor]

5. Oh, it's worse than that. There are billions MISSING

Read this in the Guardian the other day:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html

[jillan]

6. I know it! And I can't help but wonder whose dirty little hands are

holding OUR money? Halliburton? Bechtel?

Before the senate gives them another penny, this administration needs to answer to this. The only one I have heard screaming about it was Kerry.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Are those billions

really "missing"? I think they were stolen and given to someone. Who that someone? My guess is someone in the White House... But then again I am a bit biased.

[Gloria]

7. Zapata Engineering.........You have to wonder if there is a

Bush connection buried somewhere here. Didn't Bush have a company called Zapata???

Manuel L. Zapata founded the firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he has made many government and community connections. Zapata was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1940 and immigrated to the United States in 1967. He worked for energy firms such as Piedmont Natural Gas, Exxon and Duke Power. He organized and led a delegation from the North Carolina Ports Authority that traveled to South America on behalf of the North Carolina secretary of commerce, the purpose of which was to attract foreign shippers to North Carolina ports. Among his recognitions, Gov. Jim Hunt appointed Zapata to the North Carolina Entrepreneurial Development Board in 1993; the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce named Zapata the Entrepreneur of the Year of 1996, and he is a recipient of the Spirit of Charlotte Award for entrepreneurship. He has served as board member of the Arts and Science Council, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Crisis Assistance Ministry, Presbyterian Hospital, NovantHealth and Wachovia Bank.

[jillan]

8. funny you brought up that corporation, and they are in the news today

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12376

They fired on US troops:evilfrown:

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Any idea why?

:mad: Ugh! Yes Bush had an oil company called Zapata in southern Texas during the Kennedy years. Nixon made referenece a few times to something called "Operation Zapata".