Tonight we saw the film "Iraq For Sale" in a local coffee house. The film outlines the lack of oversight over independent contractors in Iraq and the abuses, both in monetary matters and matters of policy, such as torture, to which such lack of oversight leads.
The film is not particularly well made and tends to be disjointed and maudlin in parts but it does completely piss you off if even a portion of what it purports to convey is accurate.
It points out what everybody already knows, i.e. that these companies are politically well connected through past associations (Cheney and Halliburton) or through large political donations. Halliburton charges the U.S. $100 for doing one bag of laundry and does such a bad job of it that some soldiers try to do their own laundry but were told that they were forbidden to do it themselves. Halliburton also provided contaminated water to the troops and have continued to be paid. All of this under cost plus contracts that causes them to ignore any thoughts of cost savings.
CACI operatives were involved in the torture abuses at Abu Ghraib and the soldiers involved were being supervised by independent contractors. That is a travesty.
Ever since the friends of Bush the Elder decided during the Kuwait war that war was a bitchin' business model, the same cabal of defense contractors and oil companies have been looking for a malleable president and a convenient war.
They have found both and their profits are obscene.
And nobody's looking.
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