The Red Brick Times

"Jeremy Scahill, bestselling author and investigative reporter for The Nation, testified May 10 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on the impact of private military contractors on the conduct of the Iraq War. This is the full text of his remarks."

Outsourcing the War
Posted 9:37 AM by whatley (1) comments

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Certainly. Since the demise of huge, unreported and secret sole-source contracts under which the "intelligence" establishment (George Bush Sr. WAS head of the CIA after all) used contractors to peddle drugs and make war on foreign countries, these contractors went public and entered the business of patriotic war for bucks. It also reflects the social structure here, "back home." There are more private prisons, private security to guard gated communities, private schools to guard tender children from the public, and, of course, private legal machines en mass to do everthing from destroying a business competitor to swinging the election of a President by US Supreme Court interference. All reflect the dominance of totally private interests. The law may be "a ass", as Charles Dickens noted, but it is a RICH ass. And the donkey drivers keep feeding it.

# posted by  Andy : May 18, 2007 11:47 PM
 
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