CNN: Gates is sending a Pentagon team to Iraq to review oversight of private contractors

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

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Defense Secretary Gates is sending a Pentagon team to Iraq to review oversight of private contractors, a spokesman said today.

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What happened to the miracle of the private sector?

[still_one]

1. They have been trying to cover it up for years, why should we trust them for oversight?

[peacetalksforall]

2. And while they are there they will be protected by Blackwater. ?

[cosmicdot]

13. ding

the irony of it all

the stuff just writes itself

[Magleetis]

3. Ooooooooo

a pentegon team. :eyes:

[nashville_brook]

4. brilliant idea! -- who'da thunk it? oversight. must remember it's a good thing.

[Spazito]

5. Oh no! I bet Blackwater is shakin' in their boots, NOT!

Scenario as I see it:

Pentagon team to Blackwater: We are reviewing the oversight of you guys

Blackwater to Pentagon team: The oversight is just fine as it is

Pentagon team to Blackwater: Yep, we agree

Pentagon team report: Nothing to see here, move along

[grytpype]

10. DoD is actually pretty pissed about Blackwater.

They are saying this latest incident is potentially worse than Abu Ghraib.

[Spazito]

11. Unfortunately, imo, the DOD is no longer independent from

the political wants of the bush admin, imo, which means this effort is merely a whitewash in hopes the whole thing will go away and, sadly, it will.

[Doctor_J]

6. Oversee the overseers?

Whadya wanna bet Cheney's making money off of this?

[Tempest]

7. The fox guarding the hen house

Congress should send its own team over.

[GreenTea]

9. Exactly! Why would anyone believe the same guy requesting another $190 billion dollars to

fund corporations like Blackwater, whom this administration adores... A privatized army of killers with no oversight!

War for profit!

As these republican multi-national corporations rake in billions of dollars every time congress approves more war spending....another 190 billion dollars more they want.... they lie and say it's for the troops.... Bullshit, most of it goes to these same republican donating corporations like BLACKWATER, LOCKHEED-MARTIN, ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS, HALLIBURTON, KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT, BWX TECHNOLOGIES, GENERAL ELECTRIC, BECHTEL, NORTHROP GRUMMAN, RAYTHEON, THE BOEING COMPANY, GENERAL DYNAMICS, BAE SYSTEMS INC.

While oil corporations like EXXON & the rest, are stealing billions in unmetered Iraq oil & claiming the rights to future exploitation...trillions of dollars more for them, as they also shamelessly gouge us every day at the pump for even more profits...

Of course BushCo never wants the never ending imperialistic wars for profit to end.

[Telly Savalas]

17. They should have done that back in January.

We spend $3 billion a week over there and everybody knows that there's rampant waste and corruption. But I guess too many Bush Dog Democrats don't want to be painted as far left extremists by advocating such radical hippy-dippy ideas like responsibility, oversight, auditing, and accountability.

[Orsino]

8. Fiddling with the little swindles...

...while the biggest of all drags on. Running out the clock.

[Felix Mala]

12. I'm guessing someone from the White House has been assigned

to them to make sure they only "examine" what the White House wants examined...

[pinto]

14. Would be a good move if the (sort of) Iraqi government challenged Bremer's immunity

from local law for these guys. It'd help put the lie to the spreading democracy meme the Administration has settled on and might help highlight the complete lack of legal oversight of the contracted forces in Iraq.

[Spazito]

16. The Iraqi Parliament should simply pass a bill negating the

exemption re the mercenaries. It can be done if they had the will and were actually sovereign and not a puppet government.

[rodeodance]

15. they are funded by STATE-he is stepping on Condi's toes.