Iraq for Sale
January 24th, 2007 2 comments link to (permalink) posted by david
A Robert Greenwald film about the role of outsourcing in the Iraq War. It also puts a human face on the contractors themselves who are not necessarily soldiers of fortune, but ordinary people such as truck drivers.
Tivia: Computer Sciences Corporation is an outsourcing company used in Iraq, who: flew the defoliation missions that are the centerpiece of Plan Colombia; constituted the core of the police force in Bosnia; protected Afghan president Hamid Karzai; managed the border posts between the US and Mexico and ran Airforce One. They have a website that is indistinguishable from a boring Silicon Valley enterprise software firm.
Running time: 1 hour 16 mins.
tags: politics
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Chuck : Jan 24, 2007 at 9:22 pm
This is the same company that is the primary sponsor of one of my favorite pro bike teams?
William : Feb 7, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I did not realize that the Iraq War had been privatized to such an extent. I had read about private contractors driving trucks and providing security, but I had no idea they were serving meals and doing laundry as well. The lyrics of the old Bob Dylan song kept running through my head as the graphs of Haliburton’s profits kept reaching for the sky. Come you masters of war, you that build all the guns…
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