Rick Jacobs in the Huffington Post wrote It's the Money Stupid: Bush, Inc. in Iraq. It makes a stark comparison I'll repeat below and then makes a plea for us all to try to spread the word so we vote the bums out.
"No one's surprised that Saddam Hussein paid cronies to do fake work so that billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian purposes instead went into private bank accounts. And no one's surprised that he and his cronies are now in jail, wading through a trial"
"George Bush et al are paying cronies [Halliburton] to do fake work in Iraq so that billions of dollars [well at least $75 million in a no-bid job] earmarked for humanitarian purposes [in this case fixing an oil pipeline, not humanitarian in my mind but okay] instead goes to private bank accounts. And they are not on trial. In fact, most people don't even know it's happening." The damning part being "Halliburton knew that the way they were trying to restore the pipeline absolutely would not work."
Word spread. Apparently there's a movie coming out too: "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"
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