The Great Iraq Swindle

Not many pundits will tell you one of the really big reasons Bushco invaded Iraq. To make fortunes for untold numbers of cronies and connected private contractors at the expense of the US treasury and the US taxpayer. Basically cleaning out the US treasury. And as Bush1 himself famously said, "The continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands."(George H.W. Bush, 1992)
Here's Rolling Stone:

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The Great Iraq Swindle
How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury

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?..


"..Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ­Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush's war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between essential government services and for-profit enterprises have been blurred to the point of absurdity -- to the point where wounded soldiers have to pay retail prices for fresh underwear, where modern-day chattel are imported from the Third World at slave wages to peel the potatoes we once assigned to grunts in KP, where private companies are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up.."

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