The Great Iraq Swindle, ...

[aggiesal]

How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury
--From Issue 1034

Posted Aug 23, 2007 8:51 AM

How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.

You start off as a well-connected bureaucrat: in this case, as an Air Force civil engineer, a post from which Robbins was responsible for overseeing 70,000 servicemen and contractors, with an annual budget of $8 billion. You serve with distinction for thirty-four years, becoming such a military all-star that the Air Force frequently sends you to the Hill to testify before Congress -- until one day in the summer of 2003, when you retire to take a job as an executive for Parsons, a private construction company looking to do work in Iraq.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle


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A good article in the Rolling Stone about the Iraq Swindle,
that has received very little press. It is in the latest
edition, and is dated from last Thursday 8-23-07

Enjoy.

[Rick Myers]

1. A must-read!!!

That is an amazing article! We the People should be ringing the White House with torches, trying to drive out the monsters!!!

And DON'T GET ME STARTED about Congress!!!

:grr:

[panader0]

2. I bought my first Rolling Stone in years today---can't wait to read it.

[wildbilln864]

3. A must indeed!

Thank you for posting! :hi:

[aggiesal]

5. You're Welcome! n/t

[wildbilln864]

6. I've posted a link about this.......

on my hometown website! And I'll be spreading it further down the line! Again, thanks for posting!
:banghead:

[patrice]

4. Yeah, and all of this fighting over what the Military does in Iraq . . .

does anything we're talking about the future of Iraq have one whit to do with the Private War Profiteers? No matter what our government does, can't they just ignore us?

According to Jeremy Scahill's book Blackwater, there's a private army, operating with private intelligence, under private "justice" procedures, in pursuit of private missions.

[wildbilln864]

7. Kick! eom!