IT'S ABOUT TIME! FINALLY a major American newspaper starts to investigate THE SIGNATURE AGENDA of the Bush-Cheney administrations abysmal "leadership" of their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: MASSIVE, GROTESQUE, IN-YOUR-FACE CORRUPTION, no-bid contracts, KICKBACKS, SLUSH-FUNDS, SECRET BUDGETS, missing billions (NINE BILLION DOLLARS missing from Iraq government funds distributed by "Viceroy" L. Paul Bremer's people in first weeks of US occupation, 2003, alone), and even the VICE PRESIDENT HIMSELF, BEING FINANCIALLY REWARDED by his HALLIBURTON STOCK OPTIONS, as he personally directs BILLIONS of dollars to his "former" company.
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Inside the world of war profiteers
From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.
A Chicago TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION
By David Jackson and Jason Grotto | Tribune reporters
February 21, 2008
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-kbr-war-profiteers-feb21,0,195925,full.story
ROCK ISLAND, Ill.—Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out.
Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war's largest troop support contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers plunged their boots into Iraqi sand.
The graft continued well beyond the 2004 congressional hearings that first called attention to it. And the massive fraud endangered the health of American soldiers even as it lined contractors' pockets, records show.
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