The Joint of Incompetence
24 January 2008
by Christian McPhate, Contributing Writer for AnaiRhoads.org
AnaiRhoads.org -- Finally, Democrats have quit smoking the joint of incompetence and
initiated a new law that will allow the hands of justice to tighten
the reins on the puppet masters behind the continuation of the war in
Iraq—the war profiteers.
In the Senate, congressional leaders passed a $627 defense policy
that requires the government to release reports on its reliance of
security contractors as well as establishment of a bipartisan
commission to investigate the abuse of wartime contracts.
And it is about time lawmakers tried to close the loophole that left
the contractors immune to prosecution, but it may be a little late.
Democrats began passing the joint of incompetence after the FBI
announced it was going to investigate Blackwater USA, a military
contractor, for the September 16 brain fart where security employees
of the company participated in a shoot-out in Baghdad that killed 11
Iraqis.
Sadly, most Americans have missed the mechanics of the war profiteers
maneuvers because they were busy running in circles, worrying about
threats of nuclear war, communists and now terrorists.
The war profiteers have been preaching the gospel of privatization
since the dawn of the Vietnam War, and several entities incorporate
their round table of discontent: The private contractors CACI and
Titan intelligence agencies; Bechtel, a San Francisco-based
construction and engineering giant; Aegis Defense Services, a company
that provides "corporate warriors" (mercenaries); General Dynamics,
defense contractor; Nour USA Ltd., a contracting firm; the oil
mongers Chevron, ExxonMobil and Halliburton.
In 2005, the Washington Post reported that CIA officials stated that
50 percent of their intelligence was outsourced to CACI and Titan at
a cost of over $40 billion—now the Center for Constitutional Rights
is suing the companies because the companies' employees "engaged in a
conspiracy to torture and abuse detainees and did so to make more
money."
Becthel received the largest non-bid contract of $2.4 billion to
rebuild Iraq—even though the company has been plagued with problems
ranging from shoddy school repairs to an overwhelming over-budget
cost ranging between $70 million to $90 million for the
reconstruction of the Basra Children's Hospital Project.
Aegis Defense Services has over 48,000 private security and military
contractors (PMCs) fighting the War on Terror, and industry observers
state that the PMCs will profit over $200 billion by 2010 (while our
soldiers fighting the same battle will barely top the $20,000 mark
for fighting the war on terror)—and yet, the company's CEO, Tim
Spicer, was accused of breaking an arms embargo in Sierra Leone, and
an industry-insider stated that the company was given a $293 million
contract despite lower bids from other American contractors.
General Dynamics is the largest military supplier to the war in Iraq,
providing the military with everything from bullets to wheeled
light-armored vehicles. The company's earnings have tripled since
9/11 with a little help from a former top aide to the Army Chief of
Staff, David K. Heebner, who before General Dynamics hired him had
initiated a plan for the Army to start using wheeled light-armored
vehicles—a month after Heebner was hired, the company won a
multi-billion dollar contract to produce the vehicles.
Nour USA Ltd. was incorporated after the war began and has acquired
over $400 million in Iraqi contracts, as well as an $80 million
contract to provide oil pipeline security—despite the fact that the
company has absolutely no experience in this field of expertise, and
the man who helped them acquire the contract, Ahmed Chalabi, is a
fugitive from Jordan law enforcement officials and accused of passing
classified information to the Axis of Evil, Iran.
The petro-imperialists, ExxonMobil and Chevron, have just about
solidify their control of the Iraq oilfield with the upcoming
implementation of the new oil law in Iraq's constitution that will
privatize the Iraqi National Oil Company. The new law will allow the
oil mongers access to Oil Ministry officials and geological data as
well as provisions in the law that will lock the government in
long-term commitment contracts (50 years).
And Halliburton, a company with commercial ties to terrorist states?
Well, it is the biggest profiteer of all and with a little help from
the Connecticut Cowboy president and his band of merry rednecks, the
government paid the company $37 million to build prison camps in
Guantanamo Bay, $100 million to build a new embassy in Kabul, $7
billion to restore Iraq's oil industry to prewar status, as well as
an unclassified amount of money for constructing new oil wells. The
company also supports U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan,
Uzbekistan, Djibouti, the Republic of Georgia and Iraq with their
numerous firms that provide laundry, food and other basic needs at a
300 percent inflation rate.
It is about time that the competent members of the government put a
restraint on these abusers of justice, these slayers of humanity,
these addicts of the almighty green.
And yet, it is all for naught.
It is almost impossible to secure an Iraq contract from the
government that has over $20 billion set aside for the Iraqi relief
and $5 billion set aside in the Development Fund for Iraq—especially
with executives like Dick Cheney who has his hands so far entrenched
in the machine of money that fellow contractors have stated:
"Anything that has to do with Iraq policy, Cheney's the man to see.
He's running it the way that L.B.J ran the space program."
And with start-up companies like Free Market Global, an international
company with interests in gas, petroleum and other resources, that
have members on their advisory boards like Gen. Tommy Franks who
commanded the invasion of Iraq last year, how exactly will a
government so corrupt stop the machine of evil with a law that will
be judged upon by Supreme Court justices appointed by the
mastermind's puppet?
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