Blackwater Makes a Killing In Iraq
Merc shop Blackwater, under fire for indiscriminate murder of civilians, has made almost one billion dollars since they began working in Iraq on your dime. Keep in mind nobody there likes these guys -- not the troops and not the Iraqis. As many videos attest, they're psychotic overgrown sandbox bullies who think they're fighting Cobra.
From the Washington Post:
"In last week's incident, Blackwater guards shot into a crush of cars, killing at least 11 Iraqis and wounding 12. Blackwater officials insist their guards were ambushed, but witnesses have described the shooting as unprovoked. Iraq's Interior Ministry has concluded that Blackwater was at fault. . . According to federal spending data compiled by the independent Web site FedSpending.org, however, the State Department's Blackwater contracts vastly exceed those of the Pentagon. Since 2004, State has paid Blackwater $833,673,316, compared with Defense Department contracts of $101,219,261."
If we include our vast privatization efforts there, I can only imagine this nation's companies are making multiple hundred billions in this "war for freedom and rainbows" or whatever the fuck we're calling it this week on CNN....while you subsidize them.
Think of the countless insured kids, high speed trains, improved bridges and educational brainpower that money could buy -- and then just bury it in a pit and set it ablaze, because this nation's largest industries run your government and could care fucking less about what you think.