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De grote Irak oplichting

De oorlog in Irak is een grote geldmachine. Contractors krijgen no-bid contracts op basis van costs+. Dat betekent dat je alles wat je kan uitgeven, vergoed krijgt, plus nog wat winst. Controle op wat je achterlaat is er niet. Iedereen die ' The War profiteers' heeft gezien, weet wat dat betekent. Totale oplichting en absolute wanprestatie en er dik voor betaald krijgen, ook al sterven je werknemers bij bosjes. Bij lastige vragen, komen je vriendjes op hoge plaatsen je helpen en in plaats van straf, krijg je nog betere contracten. En die vriendjes nog grotere huizen en auto's. Dit is geen incident, dit is de standaard werkwijze van elke contractor in Irak. Vind jij het gek dat die oorlog zo lang duurt, het is helemaal niet bedoeling dat die geldkraan dichtgaat. De link is naar een Rolling Stone artikel met een kort filmpje, het laat nog niet half zien hoe erg het allemaal echt is, maar het geeft een idee...

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  1. patricksavalle@patricksavalle
    #56
    Dit is de reactie van iemand onder het betreffende Rolling Stone artikel:

    "Would that Americans would read their own history! There is nothing new about Iraq.WAR IS A RACKET wrote Marine General Smedley Butler, of WW1 and all the wars he led in the early 1900’s: “The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let’s get it.

    Of course, it isn’t put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and “we must all put our shoulders to the wheel,” but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket – and are safely pocketed. Let’s just take a few examples:

    Take our friends the du Ponts, the powder people – didn’t one of them testify before a Senate committee recently that their powder won the war? Or saved the world for democracy? Or something? How did they do in the war? They were a patriotic corporation. Well, the average earnings of the du Ponts for the period 1910 to 1914 were $6,000,000 a year. It wasn’t much, but the du Ponts managed to get along on it. Now let’s look at their average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fifty-eight million dollars a year profit we find! Nearly ten times that of normal times, and the profits of normal times were pretty good. An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.

    Take one of our little steel companies that patriotically shunted aside the making of rails and girders and bridges to manufacture war materials. Well, their 1910-1914 yearly earnings averaged $6,000,000. Then came the war. And, like loyal citizens, Bethlehem Steel promptly turned to munitions making. Did their profits jump – or did they let Uncle Sam in for a bargain? Well, their 1914-1918 average was $49,000,000 a year!

    Or, let’s take United States Steel. The normal earnings during the five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year. Not bad. Then along came the war and up went the profits. The average yearly profit for the period 1914-1918 was $240,000,000. Not bad.

    There you have some of the steel and powder earnings. Let’s look at something else. A little copper, perhaps. That always does well in war times.

    Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war years 1910-1914 of $10,000,000. During the war years 1914-1918 profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year.

    Or Utah Copper. Average of $5,000,000 per year during the 1910-1914 period. Jumped to an average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.” SO WHY DID IT TAKE LEADING INTELLECTUALS HERE TO FIGURE OUT THE NATURE OF THE IRAQ WAR?"