The Great Iraq Swindle

[All Else Failed]

WATCH THE VIDEO IN ITS ENTIRETY FIRST!!!


The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone

 

[GraceAbounds]

I honestly was interested in watching it and I tried to, but after the 4th or 5th cuss word in less than 2 minutes I gave up.

I'll check out the article though.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Ok, I couldn't through the article either. Too much cynicism in it.

Here is an article that you might find worth reading AEF on the same issue I believe:

Who's profiting from the Iraq war? - MSN Money

 

[All Else Failed]

I honestly was interested in watching it and I tried to, but after the 4th or 5th cuss word in less than 2 minutes I gave up.

I'll check out the article though.

Why did you cuss? Anger?

 

[GraceAbounds]

ROFL! No. In the video silly. They were cussing in the video.

 

[All Else Failed]

Oh sorry I misread, I don't have my contacts in. 0_0


Cussing aside, he makes shocking points.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Well, I posted an article that I think you might be interested in a couple of posts up. Read it and let me know if it is talking about the same point of the other article you posted.

 

[All Else Failed]

Ok I'll read it.

 

[Charmer]

WATCH THE VIDEO IN ITS ENTIRETY FIRST!!!


The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone

I haven't watched the video, but I did get my issue of Rolling Stone a few days ago and have read that article. Every paragraph pissed me off so much that I had an anger headache by the end. The things they let people get away with these days and STILL reap in the millions of dollars!! WTF?!!!

 

[All Else Failed]

I haven't watched the video, but I did get my issue of Rolling Stone a few days ago and have read that article. Every paragraph pissed me off so much that I had an anger headache by the end. The things they let people get away with these days and STILL reap in the millions of dollars!! WTF?!!!

Modern warfare is largely a business, before anything else.

 

[JuJu]

Ya mean this war isn't just about freedom?

bush intends to ask for even more money to save his face:

plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war...
The request -- which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September

washingtonpost.com

 

[dt3]

I watched the video. I wasn't impressed. The only problem they pointed out with the police college was bad plumbing. Pipes can burst here in the states too. Other than a broken pipe, the pictures of the building didn't look too bad at all.

Guaranteeing contractors a profit seems like about the only damn way to entice our companies to go over there. If you couldn't guarantee a profit, where the hell's their incentive to even go in the first place.

And at the end with the story of the guy who got hit with an IED, the voiceover guy simply shows his extreme bias. He goes on and on about this guy's injuries and how he got dumped by his company. Then, as an aside, he mentions the guy was in the lead vehicle.

That guy broke rule #1 of any nighttime convoy planning. NVG's in the front. He knew he didn't have night vision, he knew SOP called for blacked out trucks, and he wanted to drive through Iraq at night without being able to see??? I guarantee that voided a clause in his contract/insurance.

 

[All Else Failed]

I watched the video. I wasn't impressed. The only problem they pointed out with the police college was bad plumbing. Pipes can burst here in the states too. Other than a broken pipe, the pictures of the building didn't look too bad at all.

Guaranteeing contractors a profit seems like about the only damn way to entice our companies to go over there. If you couldn't guarantee a profit, where the hell's their incentive to even go in the first place.

And at the end with the story of the guy who got hit with an IED, the voiceover guy simply shows his extreme bias. He goes on and on about this guy's injuries and how he got dumped by his company. Then, as an aside, he mentions the guy was in the lead vehicle.

That guy broke rule #1 of any nighttime convoy planning. NVG's in the front. He knew he didn't have night vision, he knew SOP called for blacked out trucks, and he wanted to drive through Iraq at night without being able to see??? I guarantee that voided a clause in his contract/insurance.

Um, did you miss the part where he asked his company for Nigh vision goggles and they refused to give him them? Its not like he can stop doing his job, he has a family to feed. Then they bill him for $48,000 for transport because his own company wouldn't provide him with the right equipment, getting him injured.

 

[dt3]

Um, did you miss the part where he asked his company for Nigh vision goggles and they refused to give him them? Its not like he can stop doing his job, he has a family to feed. Then they bill him for $48,000 for transport because his own company wouldn't provide him with the right equipment, getting him injured.

Um did you miss the part where he wasn't supposed to be in the lead vehicle, which is the only one absolutely requiring NVG's?

 

[All Else Failed]

Um did you miss the part where he wasn't supposed to be in the lead vehicle, which is the only one absolutely requiring NVG's?

There was no vehicle in that convoy with NVG's. The company wouldn't get them some. THEN for his own company to cut off his health insurance?