7th anniversary of U.S. assault on Iraq
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KBR (formerly known as the Halliburton ... subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root). Just days before the Pentagon stability in Iraq? Such an alleged responsibility implies released the Balad report, KBR announced ... it had won an indefinite U.S. involvement in the country. In fact, U.S. a new $2.3 billion-plus, five-year Iraq contract. But the military commanders have said on several occasions inspector general’s modest investigation offers new in that they are not committed to withdrawal dates stipu sight into just how little KBR delivers and how toothless lated in the Status of Forces agreement that the U.S. gov “Moreover, the government’s own auditors predict that It is the task of socialists who understand the nature as the military draws down its forces in Iraq, KBR will and imperatives of decadent U.S. imperialism and its keep most of its workforce intact, enabling it to collect “free enterprise” system to urge well-intentioned Amer $190 million or more in unnecessary expenses. Much of icans who want to see an end to the suffering of the Iraqi any ‘peace dividend’ ... from the war’s gradual end—po people inflicted by U.S. intervention and an end to the tentially hundreds of billions of dollars—could wind up waste of American resources and lives for the sake solely of the profits of big parasitic corporations to demand an Rambunctious rightists in Texas want to change the immediate and total U.S. withdrawal from these coun name of capitalism in high school textbooks to “the tries. Only relentless protests in the street and relentless American free-enterprise system.” The experience of exposure of the machinations of the U.S. government can Iraq and Afghanistan shows graphically just how “free” force the big money interests that dominate our country the American economic system has become today, like to remove their claws from these ravaged countries and the free-enterprise system that prevailed at the end of from our plundered pockets. n hoods, and their physical security. hoped to sink their proboscises into Iraq’s oil. omy.
The aftermath of this is a multiplying series of scan virtually no oversight.
full.” the Pentagon is to prevent contractor waste. in the hands of contractors.” Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Images (Left) Ayad Allawi campaign poster looms above Baghdad police checkpoint.
the 19th century when war profiteers killed more American soldiers than enemy bullets.
But now the “free enterprisers” feed freely off the public trough. They have become parasites as well as bandits like their exalted forbearers of the Gilded Age.
Some liberal commentators have speculated hopefully that Obama wants to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan in a short period of time to leave the guilt for these disasters squarely on the Bush administration and its neoconservative advis ers. It is likely that Obama wants to reduce the American involvement in these countries, which is imposing material and political costs that must eventually weaken the “American free enterprise system” as a whole. But he is riding a tiger that is not going to change its stripes.
The U.S. imperialist machine will try to maintain its hold on these and other countries by cheaper and more devious devices that by no means ex clude the use of military force. An indication of this is the commentary in the capitalist press that the disputes among Iraqi factions over the recent elections would “delay the withdrawal of Ameri can troops.”
When did it become the duty of the United States to use its military forces to ensure political ernment signed with the Iraqi authorities.