Who needs Peace when you can profit???

[RazBerryBeret]

This makes me sick--keep in mind that these these contractors in Iraq are not subject to US criminal laws.

Scandal-ridden contracting firm KBR reported today that its first quarter net profits more than tripled, from $28 million last year to $98 million this year.

Despite at least a dozen former employees alleging they had been raped by coworkers in Iraq KBR

Two former employees of KBR told a congressional panel that some of their coworkers frequently stole money and artwork from Iraq. One said that “some of her American colleagues doing construction work in Iraqi palaces and municipal buildings took woodcarvings, tapestries and crystal ‘and even melted down gold to make spurs for cowboy boots.’” Another said that “a KBR foreman tried to take military equipment, including two rocket launchers, detonators and ammunition.” Two weeks ago, the firm was awarded a $150 billion, 10-year contract for work with the U.S. Army.

A TEN YEAR CONTRACT????
wtf?

[Preston120]

1. That's the reason the NAZI's went to war, They did it in WWII also.

[RazBerryBeret]

2. scary and sad.

[Selatius]

3. Gen. Smedley Butler witnessed it himself and wrote about it.

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

-- Gen. Smedley Butler, War Is A Racket

[RazBerryBeret]

4. that quote is very sobering.

we've got to find a way out of this war.

[Selatius]

5. Regardless of who wins the WH in November, this war will go on for a few years more.

It's a long enough time for a few more people to become hundred-millionaires or even billionaires.

[RazBerryBeret]

6. and a few thousand more americans lives

to be lost.
wonder if it's hard to sleep at night, knowing how you made your millions???
guess I'll never know that, thankfully.

[Selatius]

7. I remember someone told me slavers in the 1800s knew it was wrong but that the money was...

just too good to let go. I'm sure at least some of them might--I repeat might--feel something, but it's not enough to stop them.