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Men and women who step forward to report massive fraud in the reconstruction of Iraq are being villified, demoted, fired and tortured states an article from the Associated Press posted on Forbes. For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn't know whom to trust in Iraq.A report issued a few weeks ago by the Government Accountability Office states the US has "lost" more than 190,000 AK-47 rifles and pistols. If Donald Vance is to be believed these weapons are being sold to whoever has the cash, which brings me to my theory that the Bush Administration has no interest in ever winning their illegal war. As long as there are well armed insurgents our troops will need to stay in Iraq and money can be handed over to American corporations at astronomical amounts. For the corporations the war in Iraq has been a tremendous success and anyone who blows the whistle on this money making endeavor will pay the price. Congress gave over 30 billion dollars for the reconstruction of Iraq with 8.8 billion of it missing. Why has this never been investigated? Bunnatine "Bunny" Greenhouse knows this only too well. As the highest-ranking civilian contracting officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she testified before a congressional committee in 2005 that she found widespread fraud in multibillion-dollar rebuilding contracts awarded to former Halliburton subsidiary KBR.The message is clear, if you blow the whistle they will make your life hell. Julie McBride testified last year that as a "morale, welfare and recreation coordinator" at Camp Fallujah, she saw KBR exaggerate costs by double- and triple-counting the number of soldiers who used recreational facilities.This is nothing new as its been 72 years since Smedley Butler wrote his book, War is a Racket detailing the first references to the Military Industrial Complex. WAR is a racket. It always has been.The mafia runs rackets and so does the United States government. We've been taken over by a criminal faction hell bent on torturing, killing, maiming and destroying people for profit. We will never get our democracy back until we tame corporate power and get their money out of our politicians pockets. We will never get their money away from our politicians until we elect candidates for office who refuse to take lobbyist and corporate donations. Our people powered movement is a war. It's a battle of the people versus corporate power and it will take years to win, maybe a lifetime. But win we must if we're ever to get our country back to the principles it was founded upon. So, give what you can to our people powered candidates and don't ever get discouraged, this battle is long. |