Iraq Contractors

If he becomes president Senator McCain has promised he will:

* Further weaken the military by continuing the Iraq war indefinitely against the advice members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the commanders of the Army and Marine Corps who are stating our military is overstretched to breaking point

For the first time since 1968, the Pentagon has charged a civilian contractor under military law. But the individual in question is not one of the Blackwater "shooters" alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September, nor is it the Blackwater contractor accused...

The co-author of my book, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, has an interesting take on the DOD relying on contractors to report their own fraud. Robert Bauman is a former DCIS (Defense Criminal Investigative Service) investigator and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Here is...

In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a "successful endeavor." John McCain's there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, "the surge is working," which only differs from Cheney's analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then...

According to new estimates, we will soon be spending up to $12 billion a month on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and if current trends continue, this war effort will surpass the money spent in Vietnam. When I started looking at where the war money was going...

Several weeks ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee on the problems of Iraq contracting. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) and members of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) were also on the panel. Our testimony was followed by various officials from the DOD, State Department and USAID...

In response to Senator John McCain's flip comments of spending thousands of years in Iraq, President Bush gave the war service industry a big boost to their financial bottom line. He said that the US could "easily" spend ten more years in Iraq.

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From the very beginning the war in Iraq has been a complete military blunder. It started off with the blatant lies the Bush Administration sold to the American people as a necessity for war. The opinions of military commanders regarding the inevitable disastrous outcome were

Today, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will hold hearings on the alleged gang rape of former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones by her fellow KBR employees in Iraq. If true, this young woman's rape case is twice the tragedy: first the rape and...

Right now, Iraq's parliament is considering removing immunity from U.S. security contractors or possibly all U.S. contractor personnel. Some contractor employees have told the Los Angeles Times that they would stay and work anyway. Want to bet our troops lives on it? After the Iraqi police throw the first...

I am a 32-year-old Army reservist stationed at Fort Bragg N.C, working for two- and three-star generals. I received orders to deploy to Iraq in September 2006, my first deployment to a combat zone. Even though I was a single mother, I greatly believe in the importance of serving my...