U.S. Defense Contractors Make Huge Sums of Money in Iraq Before the Pull Out--MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!! Jack Out.

This article points out the single most damaging part of the disintegration of our democracy -- fraud.

By allowing -- and encouraging -- rampant fraud in everything this regime does, our system of government is undermined and will ultimately be destroyed, probably within a generation, if not less.

While the rich get ultra-rich, the poor grow in numbers but not in power. This is a formula for disaster -- and revolution.

Thank goodness Blackwater, et. al. is there to protect our ruling oligarchy -- Big Business, Big Oil, Wall Street, K Street, The WH, Congress, etc., etc.

At least all our tax money went for a good cause!

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE." -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

So we know the GOP is crooked but it also was proven that our DEMS are no different. So why not send them a message and vote 3rd party?
Because they know we are stupid!

Since this regime has infiltrated and bastardized all branches and areas of our Gov't- We can only hope the International community will see fit to hold them accountable for these War Crimes
But then again they have shown their levels of corruption and ineptitude- We're Dommed. We have steppped fully into the scenarios we've read books about (1984), watched movies about (Gadica), heard music about (The Wall-pink floyd). Should have paid more credence to the term "Military Industrial Complex. They're Here and they are imbeddded.NOW WHAT??

If these pukes had just a little more time -- maybe one more term -- they'd have succeeded in completely supplanting the military with mercenaries and contractors... and could wage global war, anywhere they pleased, without disturbing the dozing American public, interrupting their shopping frenzies or distracting them from their sports obsessions.

... for a while.

Now if the Dems could just change the conversation from "Fund the Troops" to "Fund the No-bid Contractors"...

I see all this WEEPING and WAILING here in print, about the shit that this bunch of bitches and bastards in DC have done as a so called government, and are still doing to these United States, It's people, it's wealth and to the world in general. Sooner or later, this land of greed,theft, and indeference will collapse and never recover. and we deserve it! as we do not have the guts collectively, to go to the source of the problem and take this country back. Those who have pilfered this country will fare no better than any one.... there will be nothing left worth having.. Enjoy your future wimps!

Sam,

Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a hard time making sense of your numbers here.

KBR is cited as the largest contractor, with "more than nine times the total given to the second largest contractor, DynCorp International".

Then just below you cite "Blackwater USA, was 12th on the list of companies and joint ventures, with $485 million in contracts."

You then go on to say that "U.S. government contracts have grown more than 50 percent annually, from $11 billion in 2004 to almost $17 billion in 2005 and more than $25 billion in 2006."

And then point out that "more than $20 billion in war contracts went to foreign companies whose identities were impossible to determine. These contracts, along with the $20 billion awarded to the "unidentified" companies, accounted for about 45 percent of all funds awarded to the top 100 contractors"

Now I'm no math whiz, but:

If $20 billion + $20 billion ($40 billion) is only 45 percent of all funds, that would seem to imply that "all funds" must be near $90 billion. That seems to be a bit more than the $25 billion you quote for 2006.

Also if KBR were the top contractor with $16 million, how does Blackwater come in at number 12 with $485 million?

I'm guessing the figure should be $16 billion to KBR? Or, to put it another way, more than $5 billion more than the total contracts awarded in 2004?

I'm guessing Dick traded a large block of his Halliburton stock to KBR after the break.

Still, could you clean up the numbers a bit so us "simple folk" can make some sense of them?

Thanks

GOP Corruption is in its Last Throes.

Complete bunch of thieves.

Goes to show...if you are going to pillage and steal, make it so huge that it defies the imagination! More than $4 Billion a week is beyond the pale of anybody's understanding. A few trillion dollars in the hole since Bush's follies is also beyond anyone's understanding!
Last and not least: When is the last time (if ever!) you saw the media talk about how staggering these costs are---on borrowed money no less!
We will pay for these staggering debts in the future too. Nobody gives a shit! Future costs will be horrible stagflation, dramatically reduced value of american currency, a palpably reduced standard of living, and possibly a full bore depression! Nobody gives a shit!
Just stare in the headlights bambi!

Reid and Pelosi are funding these criminals in full.

So many payoffs, so little time.

This cash cow will be milked until the teats grow dry. Then they'll feed on blood.