Stop the profiting from war in Iraq

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http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/OPINION02/803300337/1004

It costs $275 million each day we stay in Iraq. Some goes to private contractors, costing four to 10 times more than for U.S. soldiers. The Pentagon plans to increase the use of private contractors despite questionable practices.

DynCorps' revenues were $548.7 million in 2006, thanks to work in Iraq and hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast.

In 2004 Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was awarded $4 billion for construction in Iraq and Afghanistan despite numerous lawsuits. They had to pay $8 million in 2006 for allegations of fraud, overcharging the Army, double billing, and inflation of prices.

Contractors like Blackwater (subcontractor of KBR) profit by giving no life, health or disability insurance, firing without reason, yet forbidding employees to quit regardless of treatment. Blackwater is countersuing the families of four contractors tortured in Fallujah for $10 million because employees are forbidden to sue.

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1. Congress fails to do their job of over sight and accountability

Whose running for President? Three Senators. People should be demanding answers from them about these private contractors who are slave like and crooks.

Roosevelt got rid of cronyism with government hires...now Bush negates not only the employees of long time experience but the agencies who do the over sight. The moving of the boxes after 911 was to destroy all of that.

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2. Forbidden to sue. Heh. Evil is upon us people. We have become

cows that produce the milk that nourishes wicked people. It would appear to me that the whole "private defense contractor" thing is nothing more than not having to deal with the law. Fired without reason?? Or is if fired for having a conscience in many cases as I am sure people speak out. Money will darken many peoples' souls but not all, not even most. If there were no war profiteering incentive, there would have been no war in the first place.