Iraq Contractors

The 100 Years War

Bill Maher | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Bill Maher

There's a possibility that's starting to scare me: That by a certain neocon definition, Iraq is a success.

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A Look Inside Blackwater's Global Ambitions

Mother Jones | Bruce Falconer and Daniel Schulman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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When Blackwater founder Erik Prince took his seat before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last October, in the midst of a firest...

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Hemorraging $12 Billion a Month: Triage on How to Slow the Bleeding

Dina Rasor | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home

Read More: War Service Industry, Iraq Contractors, Waxman, Webb, Mccaskill, Iraq Contractor Fraud, Home News
Dina Rasor

I will let the politicians sort out when we should get out of Iraq but I can tell you what the Congress can do to slow the bleeding until more help comes.

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Top Iraq Contractor Skirts Taxes Offshore

Boston Globe | Farah Stockman | Posted 03.06.2008 | Home

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Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of milli...

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Fraud Crackdown Comes With a Loophole

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 02.12.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to r...

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The Audacity of Hope and Iraq Contracting: Dare I hope that something will be done?

Dina Rasor | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home

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Dina Rasor

Several weeks ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee on the problems of Iraq contracting. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction...

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Private Iraq Contractors Employing Latin American Poor

LA Times | Patrick McDonnell | Posted 01.28.2008 | Home

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Sometimes he wakes up with a shudder, thinking he needs to take cover, fast. At other moments he dreams he's running and the mortar shell strikes agai...

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US Demands Free Rein In Iraq Long After Bush Leaves

New York Times | THOM SHANKER and STEVEN LEE MYERS | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home

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With its international mandate in Iraq set to expire in 11 months, the Bush administration will insist that the government in Baghdad give the United ...

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The War Service Industry's Future Financial Health: "Easily" Ten More Years in Iraq

Dina Rasor | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

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Dina Rasor

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 t...

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On Iraq: Will LBJ's War Become Nixon's War?

John Bruhns | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

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John Bruhns

If we as a nation are not willing to share in the sacrifice, we have no business being at war - period.

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Jamie Leigh Jones and the Alleged KBR Rape Case: Lack of Accountability Taken to the Extreme

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.19.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

If true, this young woman's rape case is twice the tragedy: first the rape and then the lack of legal jurisdiction to criminally prosecute the rapists.

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Contractors Say They Will Stay Despite Lack of Immunity: Want to Bet Our Soldiers' Lives On It?

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.12.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

After the Iraqi police throw the first U.S. contractor employee into the lovely Iraqi prison system, there could be an employee flight out of Iraq.

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Home From Iraq, Still Not Safe

Rebecca Hagler | Posted 12.10.2007 | Home

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My daughter got a mother who came back damaged -- not by military combat, but by the hands of contractors.

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Employee Accuses Halliburton Of Covering Up Rape In Iraq

ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD | Posted 12.10.2007 | Home

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A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the in...

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Pentagon Strikes Deal For Greater Oversight Of Iraq Contractors

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 12.05.2007 | Home

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A new agreement between the Pentagon and the State Department gives the military in Iraq more control over Blackwater Worldwide and other private sec...

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The GOP Iraq War: Follow the Money

Dan Agin | Posted 12.05.2007 | Home

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Dan Agin

That $475 billion for the Grand Old Party Iraq War did not get burned up in a bonfire, it just moved into the private bank accounts of defense contractor and subcontractor executives and shareholders.

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50 Percent Annual Growth: That's Where the President Can Find Some Pentagon Money

Dina Rasor | Posted 11.29.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

The President and the Congress are having a boxing match on the Iraq war money. Bush just went on television today with a grim face saying that if th...

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This Week's Song: Privatization of the War is a Bad, Bad Idea.

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 11.21.2007 | Home

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Max and the Marginalized

You don't have to hang out with me on the near-fringe to think that having trigger-happy private security forces prosecuting a war for us is a bad, bad idea.

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Who's Profiting from Iraq War: New Report from Center for Public Integrity

Craig Newmark | Posted 11.20.2007 | Home

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Craig Newmark

Looks like the winners in the war include contractors, particularly Halliburton/KBR.

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Rep. Slaughter, Call Up DOD Deputy Under Secretary Jack Bell!

Dina Rasor | Posted 11.07.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

Maybe the Congress can get DOD Under Secretary Jack Bell to speak realistically about problems with contractors under oath in front of a congressional committee.

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NYT: Withdraw All Private Armies From Iraq

New York Times | Posted 11.04.2007 | Home

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refers to the lack of legal accountability that allows mercenaries working for the American government to kill Ira...

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George Bush is Stripping Our Military of Honor

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.29.2007 | Home

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Frank Schaeffer

To paper over the fact that he is destroying our military by overextending it, Bush has hired professional mercenaries by the thousands. I have a stake in this decision: it dishonors my son's service as a Marine.

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War is Peace: The Orwellian World of the International Peace Operations Association

Dina Rasor | Posted 10.24.2007 | Home

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Dina Rasor

In my book, I examine a new industry that has exploded in size to support the Iraq war. This new industry is not like the old familiar Military Indus...

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Revealed: Cost Of U.S. Contractors In Iraq Has Soared To $4 Billion

New York Times | Posted 10.24.2007 | Home

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Over the past four years, the amount of money the State Department pays to private security and law enforcement contractors has soared to nearly $4 bi...

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Sure, Mr. President, Blame Congress

Jonathan Diamond | Posted 10.19.2007 | Home

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Jonathan Diamond

The kind of common ground we need is the kind that comes from speaking honestly about the mess we've gotten ourselves into.

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