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the contractors are making a killing. Plus private security groups like Blackwater etc. They privatized everything that the military used to handle, all the way down to cooking food and cleaning latrines. Not to mention you have companies, or enterprising individuals who are working on getting contracts for providing certain services like cell phones for Iraqis etc. Stuff that isn't even practical in a country that still has electrical problems. It got to the point where the Coalitional Provisional Authority never even kept track of where and who all the money was going to, they lost billions. The private companies effing looted the CPA, but the CPA was like a defacto entity in itself. Congress had no oversight of it, Iraqui's had no oversight, Bremer was like the Viceroy of his own untouchable island not subject to the laws of another country. I think Congressman Waxman is working on finding a way around that though. I hope so.
Now it's a little different, but it's still a mess. It's just money down a rathole at this point. A lot of it is burned up in just keeping our troops there and paying the private companies that provide troop related services. All that money serves to keep us there, but does little in the way of properly building the infrastructure and so forth. Like I said, it's money down a rathole at this point.
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