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Old 03-18-2014, 01:42 PM
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Nobody won-won.
Beyond Haliburton...
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Old 03-18-2014, 01:49 PM
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The entire MIC did pretty well, I'd say. Lots of spent (and spendy) munitions in both countries. You can't spend a couple of trillion dollars without making a few folks rich.
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The entire MIC did pretty well, I'd say. Lots of spent (and spendy) munitions in both countries. You can't spend a couple of trillion dollars without making a few folks rich.
Civilian contractors made out like bandits.

If fact they still are.

They are raking in the cash like Las Vegas Croupiers.
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Anyone here see 'Iraq For Sale' by Greenwald? Rough stuff there. KBR IIRC was in charge of supplying potable water to our troops and those troops brought home some nasty little reminders of their tour of duty. I wonder if our Iraq war vet and navy corpsman IceNine saw any of that?
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How could I possibly have overlooked Cheney & Co., not to mention the Usual Suspects mentioned after.
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