Iraq for Sale - - Banned Excerpts

Run time: 04:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJlJudDtVE   Posted on YouTube: May 10, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 11, 2007 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 5711

 
http://iraqforsale.org/ On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress

Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show.

Republicans insisted this not be shown.

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WAR IS A RACKET
by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient:

Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC
About the Author


Chapter One

WAR IS A RACKET

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.<MORE>

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

the Iracket War

My pleasure.

If they don't like it they can piss off out of the hearing room

I would really like to hear their arguments for refusing to allow this excerpt to be seen. How could they stifle it? Don't Dems hold the chair? What could possibly be their reasoning...that it might incriminate?

They profit. Corporate Oligarchy...not 2 party system.

What was their reasoning for it not to be shown?

:grr:

The government has known all this from the beginning and they encouraged it. Makes ya see why Iraq is really so screwed up

Burn pits?! Blowing up trucks?

Good God Almighty!

I'm ready to make war with the mo-fo's my own self!

:kick::kick::kick: & R

Might have been on the Sam Seder Show, but somebody returning from Iraq said that the burn pits were 18 football fields big!

:shrug:

just advance to 3:11 in the video and simply digest the sentiment the soldier expresses..

:(

from taxpayers money to the corporations. Not surprise really that Dimson intends to veto caps on continued spending.x(

Back world war 2 in britain, raqueteering or war profiteering was stomped on with both feet hard. You got caught doing it you went to jail. In the US i dont know, there was some pretty dubious stuff before 12/41 by the likes of standard oil but dont know how big business behave from then till 45.

For a government to let such obvious rubbish go on implies either:

- they are particpating in it (either directly or indirectly via company profits/shareholdings)

- they dont think "the war on terror" is partcularly serious so this isnt a real danger to military performance or security (as it was in WWII)

or both...

The other point is using foreign contractors rather than iraqi ones. If they had spent the money and time on putting iraqi's in jobs and getting them doing something rather than sitting at home with no job and no prospects with nothing to do but figure out how to ruin some GI's day or mug the local mullah from an opposite sect, then they wouldnt be in the crud they are in now. I clearly remember chinese, nepalese and other cheap asian labour being brought in to contract. No doubt they were getting stuff all but whoever was pimping them was making a fortune. Why werent they forced to use iraqis??????? In this case the likes of KBR may have actually physically accellerated the disaster in iraq, post invasion, due to their hiring practices.

those jobs, if given to the Iraqi people, would have benefited the people of the coutry.

This is an outrage.

And how does the minority party call the shots?

Welcome to DU, Rossmonster!

>Back world war 2 in britain, raqueteering or war profiteering was stomped on with both feet hard. You got caught doing it you went to jail. In the US i dont know, there was some pretty dubious stuff before 12/41 by the likes of standard oil but dont know how big business behave from then till 45.

Prescott Bush was the managing director of Union Bank, which was charged with trading with the enemy in 1942. He got away clean, and even got a tidy profit (after the war).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html

IBM sold punch card technology to the Nazis throughout the war, which allowed them to identify the Jews, and kept the trains to Auschwitz running on time.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

Ford and GM had some connection to the Nazis, with their German subsidiaries arming Germany. Henry Ford funded Hitler in the 1920s, and continued after Pearl Harbor.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000124/silverstein

Chase Manhattan, and Standard Oil as you say, the list goes on. Halliburton is not the first.

And welcome to DU. :hi:

Bill

I read this book back in 2001 and was stunned by it. It connected all the dots. Explained why tattoos on contentration camp victims were done. Why germans always went after the census cards when they conquered a country. Why when there wasnt a census they just shot people en masse.

A very interesting insightful book, a bit long winded towards the end but pretty good.

cheers

Something is wrong with this picture.

:sarcasm:

"Contract workers in Iraq are wasting millions of dollars, committing crimes — including killings — with impunity, and undermining the efforts of U.S. military personnel to develop trust with Iraqi people, Scahill and filmmaker Robert Greenwald told the House Appropriations defense subcommittee May 10."


http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2750348&C=america

so...who runs the house appropriations defense subcommittee that wouldn't allow this video to be shown?

on edit
looks like murtha is the chair for this subcommittee
http://appropriations.house.gov/Subcommittees/sub_def.shtml

and prance and make a good show
for the people to see at night
while the war profits continue to grow
and we look like the fools in their sight

it means nothing you see
for the show to go on
when power is easy to wield
it means nothing you see
for the people to frown
for their fear will make them yield

the power they have to distort and lie
the truth is plain and free
just open your eyes and turn off the tv
and awake to ignore the lies

me...edited a bit...it was a little dodgy at top...;-)

If anyone hasn't seen this yet, it's a must see.

Free at google video. For those of us who are broke ass po' during this super great economic boom. :sarcasm:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6621486727392146155&q=iraq+for+sale+duration%3Along&hl=en

from congress and say it's all to fight terrorism.

War for profit!

Why? What are they afraid of? The truth!! Heads should roll!

I love how the average american is so stupid about this! they don't get it - they don't see that fighting phantom bad guys in Iraq not only takes our eyes off the real bad guys, and weakens are military, and worse, destroys families there and here, death - destruction - torture.... sigh.

John Edwards - "be patriotic about something else other than war"

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- check it out, top '08 stuff

This video should be aired in prime time on every PBS station.

Bold foresight.

It will make your blood boil, but it is worth seeing.

Couldnt even get through the whole segment! It makes me too angry..much like, I cant watch Resident Bush on TV...his face and expressions make my blood boil...

For those of you who have an hour...here is some interesting history on KBR..LBJ..and the history of the *Great White Fathers* from Texas...who pretty much started this whole warring fiasco. This is the money trail:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1929769365635576415&q=mistress%20LBJ