Game Over. It's all over 'cept the dying' and cryin'

[Ilsa]

Hey, if the contractors making all the money are pulling out, it's over. Here's four articles I consolidated off DU about this. Now, who needs to apologize to whom?


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/01/BECHTEL.TMP

Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years

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"Did Iraq come out the way you hoped it would?" asked Cliff Mumm, Bechtel's president for infrastructure work. "I would say, emphatically, no. And it's heartbreaking."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/ap_on_re_us/kroll_iraq_1

Kroll pulls security teams out of Iraq

NEW YORK - Security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.

Michael G. Cherkasky, president and chief executive of Kroll owner Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., told The Associated Press that the business in the two countries wasn't worth risking the lives of their employees.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1833308,00050004.htm

Saudi study calls Iraq 'lost battle'

The US war in Iraq is a "lost battle" and the violence-ravaged nation's "dire" plight seems certain to see it shatter along ethnic lines, an advisor to the Saudi government is warning.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/world/middleeast/01military.html?hp&ex=1162443600&en=ae294d1d13aed188&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos

The conclusions the Central Command has drawn from these trends are not encouraging, according to a copy of the slide that was obtained by The New York Times. The slide shows Iraq as moving sharply away from “peace,” an ideal on the far left side of the chart, to a point much closer to the right side of the spectrum, a red zone marked “chaos.” As depicted in the command’s chart, the needle has been moving steadily toward the far right of the chart.

An intelligence summary at the bottom of the slide reads “urban areas experiencing ‘ethnic cleansing’ campaigns to consolidate control” and “violence at all-time high, spreading geographically.” According to a Central Command official, the index on civil strife has been a staple of internal command briefings for most of this year. The analysis was prepared by the command’s intelligence directorate, which is overseen by Brig. Gen. John M. Custer.

[ClintonTyree]

1. That's quite telling..........

"The conclusions the Central Command has drawn from these trends are not encouraging, according to a copy of the slide that was obtained by The New York Times. The slide shows Iraq as moving sharply away from “peace,” an ideal on the far left side of the chart, to a point much closer to the right side of the spectrum, a red zone marked “chaos.” As depicted in the command’s chart, the needle has been moving steadily toward the far right of the chart".

Just as we've always known. The red zone, marked "chaos" and the blue zone, marked "peace".........sounds hauntingly familiar, doesn't it? And "the needle has been moving steadily toward the far right of the chart". Sounds damned familiar to me. Our country has moved steadily to the far right, into "chaos". It's high time to move the needle back to the blue "peace" zone, here and abroad. The first step toward the achievement of this goal starts next Tuesday. Then perhaps the right wing "chao"s can end and a new era of "blue peace" can be ushered in.

Less than a week now..........CAN YOU FEEL IT? :party:

[bobbieinok]

2. IMO, US left Vietnam when corporations decided they could no

longer make $$ there. I never believed it was b/c of TV scenes, protests, etc. NO, when corporate America decided there was no longer $$$ to be made there, they decided US would leave: just 'pull out' and declare victory.

BTW, Brown and Root (now part of Halliburton) was a major construction firm in Vietnam. Bechtel too, I think.

[rainy]

11. This is so true. After reading some of "Confessions of an Economic

Hit Man" I think you are so right. Once the hit men, then the jackals cannot convince the country in question to allow national corporations to control their natural resources for loans etc. the military is the next tool for convincing them. This is how our global, empirical, capitalism works. It is such a blow to understand this and feel so hopeless to do anything about it, let alone try to explain it to anyone.

[OzarkDem]

3. This is very telling

apparently they've soaked the taxpayers for all the money the can. They can obviously read the handwriting on the wall. What's next?

This is the national discussion we need to be having. I'm truly frightened for our soldiers.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The US MIlitary

won't be far behind.

Only problem Bush is like Gollum hanging onto his Precious. He just can't let go.

[Ilsa]

5. "....Bush is like Gollum hanging on to his Precious." Wow! Great line! nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Thanks

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. !!

:thumbsup:

[elehhhhna]

13. Hope he's allowed one "Precious" in the Hague's prison.

[Coexist]

7. k n r

[Selatius]

9. Who's gonna be the last man to die for a mistake?

Who's it gonna be?

[earth mom]

10. Good info-but are the contractors now going to Iran for their next "job"?

Could that be the reason they are leaving Iraq? :puke:

[elehhhhna]

12. They got the buzillions and can no longer recruit people to go, anyway.

big surprise.

[Straight Shooter]

14. Can bush read the handwriting on the wall yet?

I mean the g'damn letters must be blazing in neon by now. x(