Answers to Zogby: in real time.

[TalkingDog]

Q: What is the primary reason why you believe the United States went to war with Iraq in 2003?

A: So Dick Cheney and the Bush Sr. crowd could make a lot of money by privitizing the military and destablilzing the middle class to lower cost of workers to business owners. In other words, establishment of the military-industrial complex.

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. They didn't establish it...

...but they HAVE given it 7 years of steroids.

[alfredo]

2. I said it was part of a larger strategy laid out by the PNAC

Iraq was to be the gas station for the military as they marched across south Asia.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. I'd definitely say that's accurate.

There's been more murmuring about permanent bases. Some insiders are essentially matter-of-fact about it at this point, but it doesn't get any play in the MSM.

[venable]

4. guess who builds and services the bases?

starts with Halli, ends with burton.

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. Well, that was no secret...

...and they are definitely the biggest profiteer, but there are a lot more fingers in that pie than just HAL:

Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton) $10,832,000,000
Parsons Corp. $5,286,136,252
Fluor Corp. $3,754,964,295
Washington Group International $3,133,078,193
Shaw Group/Shaw E & I $3,050,749,910
Bechtel Group Inc. $2,829,833,859
Perini Corporation $2,525,000,000
Contrack International Inc. $2,325,000,000
Tetra Tech Inc. $1,541,947,671
USA Environmental Inc. $1,541,947,671
CH2M Hill $1,528,500,000
American International Contractors, Inc. $1,500,000,000
Odebrect-Austin $1,500,000,000
Zapata Engineering $1,478,838,958
Environmental Chemical Corporation $1,475,000,000
Explosive Ordnance Technologies Inc. $1,475,000,000
Stanley Baker Hill L.L.C. $1,200,000,000

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&fil=IQ

[venable]

7. nicely done

are these all building bases, servicing them, as opposed to weapons manufacture?

interested to know how many of these have connections to Carlisle Group.

[alfredo]

9. Is this the war economy?

[alteredstate]

8. That was my response, too! n/t

[Cassandra]

5. I started with oil and war profiteering...

and went on to power and delusions of an expanded power base in the Middle East.