Being a combat veteran, I appreciate the work of Veterans for Common Sense. They are an alternative to the pogie veteran groups who constantly call for nuclear strikes and preemptive wars as "solutions" to every problem which involves American interests.

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"What will be the lasting effect of the Bush administration?"

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Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers.

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Whether Barack Obama or John McCain wins the election, war profiteer and military contractor General Dynamics will be well represented in the next administration.

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Hastings-on-Hudson, New York - The reality of US troops killing and dying for Iraqi oil hit US public consciousness hard on June 19, 2008, when it was announced that the occupied government of Iraq intended to award no-bid oil service contracts to ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron  …

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This article is also posted at mybarackobama website here:

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Congress is finally moving to shut one of the more egregious forms of Iraq war profiteering: defense contractors using offshore shell companies to avoid paying their fair share of payroll taxes.

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The history of American war profiteering is rife with egregious examples of incompetence, fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement, bribery and misconduct. As war historian Stuart Brandes has suggested, each new war is infected with new forms of war profiteering. Iraq is no exception.

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Within the next month, the Pentagon will submit its 2009 budget to Congress and it's a fair bet that it will be even larger than the staggering 2008 one.

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The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pentagon investigators reported.

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David Brooks is probably best known, in our shallow, celebrity-obsessed society, for the lavish and grotesque bat mitzvah be threw for his daughter Liza at the Rainbow Room in 2005.

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Quote: "Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?"

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It's no surprise that KBR Inc., a division of Halliburton during the years we examined, tops the first list, compiled by Eagle Eye, with $17.2 billion in Iraq-related war revenue for 2003-2006. KBR is one of the largest construction and energy field-service companies in the world.

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Interesting that the President has chosen to link the war to September 11, 2001 in these words, especially in view of the fact that the American forces have done the lion's share of the bombing.

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Do we really need to spend more than a trillion dollars a year to defeat small groups of terrorist fanatics? War critics are rightly disappointed over the inability of congressional Democrats to mount an effective challenge to President Bush's Iraq adventure.

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First the drivel: To what reality is the passage of a war funding bill on Bush's terms a concession? Harry Reid says it's that "we don't have a veto proof majority." Hmm.

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As I walked down the very big, very impressive halls of Congress yesterday, the reality started to dawn on me that the idea of making a film about war profiteering had actually led to a hearing in Congress in front of the people who can make a difference on the issue -- the peopl …

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The only people who are benefiting from Bush's war on terror are members of the Military Industrial Complex.

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The following quote was sent with the link, but doesn't appear on the page. Both are short and outstanding. John Pilagers view of the media is part of the reason so many of us have taken on the task ourselves.

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Even though Moveon.org is the producer of the information in "The War Profiteers", I would tend to believe their information more than Swiftboat.

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Rodrigue Tremblay: In the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge said, "the business of America is business." Nowadays, it can be said that the arms industry and permanent war have become a big part of American business, as the offshoot of a well-entrenched military-industrial complex.

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Watch it now: Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq.

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They say that America's increasingly right-wing courts are bent on halting the forward march of civil rights, but that's a typical liberal canard.

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Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq.

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America's Misfortunes Are Oil's Fortunes

One of the facts most Americans forget is that, "We the People", own the oil reserves under our States and off our shores. The rights to drill are granted by lease to the oil companies. Those rights have been handed out for paltry fees which are rarely collected in full.

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