Why don't they just privatize this

[spindrifter]

war if it's so important to them. Bring the troops home and leave the battleground to H*buton, Fl*ohr, BlackH2O, and let AEI and Carlyle and whoever else want to play strategy games have at it on their own time, own dime.

[shoelace414]

1. because the US Military are protecting them for free.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Even if they privatize, WE still have to pony up the tab n/t

[sui generis]

3. it's not "their dime"

all the dimes they have were belong to us :P

[kenny blankenship]

4. Privatization is what to do with profits

costs and liabilities, on the other hand, are things to be socialized. The parties involved would not want to privatize the Iraq venture any further than treating soldiers as private sub-contractors and drowning Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater et al. in gravy.

The day to day expenses of occupying Iraq are for the US taxpayer to bear directly.

This is what's referred to as a public-private partnership.

[ComerPerro]

5. Exactly. Nothing sums up the conservative stance better

[Neocondriac]

6. Profits from Chaos....

Cleaning up Iraq, Cleaning up Ground Zero, Cleaning up New Orleans...What catastrophe will they profit from next?