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 WC> Here's a video of a news reports as well pointing out
 WC> the less savory aspects of the move and the costs to
 WC> the American taxpayer and slap in the face to our armed forces.

 WC> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfg1U3Z0mVM

 BF>    Another interesting movie is somewhat old now, but it still is
 BF> valid:

 BF> = = = = =

 BF>    *Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)*

I've seen it.
It's available at my local library as a DVD and also available here. 

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/iraq-for-sale-the-war-profiteers/
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=130

 BF>    Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in
 BF> the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of
 BF> such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government
 BF> cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such
 BF> contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and
 BF> material to American troops while providing little oversight.

Yeah, I'm not at all sure I could stomach watching it again.

 BF>    Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the
 BF> companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own
 BF> workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is
 BF> sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge
 BF> profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by
 BF> the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made
 BF> by the interviewees.

 BF> = = = = =

 BF>    The entire movie can be downloaded here (not available to Ross, it's
 BF> on the Swedish TPB for Christ's sake...).

 BF> http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3930769

I don't do torrent however the above two URL's I listed are still good
as I just checked.
One of them I had bookmarked, the other was my first selection
on page one of returned links from google.

You've no idea how angry I was when the U.S. Congress authorized the use
of force in Iraq when information was readily available to disprove
the WMD arguments.

I mean with my limited resources I knew it was bullshit yet Congress
with all their resources couldn't find this out?

I was of course ignored and attacked for my views at the time.

Then too I cited around the same time but just a bit earlier a CIA
report about the threat to national security of the United States
due to economic threat available in PDF format.

Here while not attacked I was dismissed on point.
Well, here we are.  

Faux patriots often attack true patriots it seems and much of this appears
to be due to the media as I touch upon in another post concerning
the overlap of members of the boards of directors in both the media
and those industries profiting by war.

Off of the snopes web site.

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the 
country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the 
people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a 
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can 
always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. 
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the 
pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials 

I can't swear to it though it's likely I posted this same quote
in the run up to the second war in Iraq.

Let me take this time to apologize for some of the ugly Americans posting
here.
The media here does deliver the party line as it were 24/7.

I've not had in my possession a television since 2007 nor do I desire 
to get one.

It's not easy defending the truth.
I came under threat of physical attack in the run up to the
second gulf war in Iraq for merely telling the truth while riding
on a municpal bus.
Several passengers surged forward towards me in a threatening manner
when I offered my opinion to a veteran of the war in Vietnam on the
impending war in the gulf and my even lower opinion of then President
G.W. Bush.

Had the general public been more aware the U.S. would have been spared the cost
in the blood of American troops and some four trillion dollars in debt
that is in fact a real threat to national security.

Not to mention some hundreds of thousands of needlessly dead and maimed
Iraqi civilians.

For what?
Severly damaging U.S. national security, destroying our reputation 
in the world and redistributing the wealth from the working tax payer
to those already obscenely wealthy.
As you point out in suggesting the viewing of Iraq for Sale.

Robert Greenwald the author of Iraq for Sale of course is relentlessly
attacked in the media. 

Goering nailed it.
Tagline too.

... Smedley Butler explained it to me. 
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