Some wars are about doing the world a favor by removing a great evil regime from power, some wars are about aggressive expansion and conquest, while others still are ill thought out ventures stubbornly clung to by a nation, too convinced of its own glory to accept defeat. So what is the Iraq War about? Well, unfortunately, it breaks the lines of traditional ideology. It’s proponents feel it was doing the world a favor, while it’s opponents feel it was aggressive expansion. Many see it as becoming rapidly or already is an ill thought out venture we are mired in.
In actuality, this was a war about the old corporate dollar. The finesse of companies like Halliburton in avoiding the inevitable talk of war crimes is absolutely disturbing. Halliburton has moved it’s offices to Dubai, out of the United States, to flee the possibilities of being prosecuted for their horrible crimes in this war. Halliburton then shed there military company KBR, so it can be said that it is a former Haliburton company, when the talk of fraud, poor oversight, negligence and ‘missing billions’ comes to the press.
Today, more bad news for the private war interests. The largest supplier of private services, KBR, a now former Halliburton company, is being accused of managing its business so poorly, it’s own records “cannot be relied on as official record”. The military is up in arms about the whole thing, and once again, the media, Washington and Corporate America have helped to sweep this wholesale fraud, being perpetrated against our troops under the rug. So, with lack of anger from the American public, it is carried forward in the name of the American people, who are financing one of the biggest frauds in world history. A fraud so gigantic, it not only steels money that is supposedly spent on soldiers, it perpetuates the slow blood letting of a small country and damages the credibility and strength of the American military and the American nation as a whole.
KBR, has sold a bill of goods to the military establishment offering cooks, cleaners and machine operators to allow every man in the army to be focused on fighting. I’ve heard stories of one machinist replaced by two KBR employees who had to be trained, since they didn’t know the equipment, and both of the KBR guys were making 3 times what the machinist was making.
Sounds like a pretty good racket for them huh?
Watch this Frontline special on the “private warriors” to understand more about this booming industry. Especially the private security forces like Blackwater, who answer to no one, while hacking and slashing their way through a nation that needs stability.
Yes indeed, this is why we fight. The Bush Administration has changed its mind too many times to count why we are fighting in Iraq. This whole private army deal however has never faulted. It’s almost as if Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were trying to carve out their own empire, built on neo-liberal (which is what Bush and the Corporate Right actually are) pro-corporate, authoritarian principles. They seem to have intended to create a nation that was democratic in name only with one true purpose, expand the marketplace and extract the resources. Too bad for them it backfired.
Maybe that’s why Bush is looking into moving to Paraguay, a nation which will not extradite the potential war-criminal.
It’s a glorious little war isn’t it? It is the mark of shame we American people will bare for generations. I’ve fought the war since Bush announced it one year after 9-11, I was in the streets yelling and screaming in vain. My conscious is clear but I still feel ashamed that my country failed, that my countrymen were so naive. I feel disturbed that my money is paying to kill innocent children in the name of a pro-corporate agenda.
It is a sick-twisted right-wing fantasy, and intermarriage of ultra-capitalism and war. When will this nightmare come to an end? It’s up to us to say enough is enough.