Didn't we once JAIL war profiteers?

[brentspeak]

I read tonight that Halliburton was "awarded" yet another taxpayer-funded Pentagon project, this time for building a new Gitmo prison.

Wasn't there a time when war-profiteers almost gladly ran to the police to escape angry citizens who were liable to take justice into their own hands?

[Fovea]

1. Treason never prospers

for if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
-- Sir John Harington.

[meppie-meppie not]

2. yes but that was before the bush days

[omega minimo]

3. Wasn't Standard Oil broken down at the start of the 20th century

and recreated at the beginning of this one?

[SouthernDem2004]

4. They would have to declare war first. Congress never declared war...

[libodem]

5. that's what gets me

I THOUGHT PROFIT GOUGING AND WAR PROFITEERING WAS ILLEGAL?

[bobbieinok]

6. WWI and WWII there were constant complaints about 'war profiters'

and republican T Roosevelt talked about 'malefactors of great wealth'