Thanks to the privatization of war, US desert storm troopers don't have to pull KP duty any more. Halliburton is in charge of things like mess halls as well as providing "found" oil to the military among many other things.

The other things Halliburton does, that we hear about, are building schools. On occasion we hear that sanitation, water and electricity are still not fixed. They even made a commercial we saw in DC that said "Hey it's a war zone so we can't be expected to get everything done."

Few remember the bombing in the green zone of Baghdad that killed scores of US troops as they ate lunch in the circus tent that Halliburton provided. Halliburton dodged a bullet on that one since the original claims of a rocket attack was finally explained as a suicide bomber in the mess tent. It was also the greatest loss of life in one incident until a chopper recently went down.

Much can be explained away with the fog of war excuse and plain old denial. What may not be swept under the carpet bombing so easily may be the out right theft of money. $3 to $9 billion dollars worth of misplaced and lost money could go over $500 billion if the Swiss accounts of the Hussein family have been secretly recovered. I don't think we will ever be told.

As a memo to the few intrepid journalists who might still be alive, follow the money trail. Follow the crimes within the crimes such as the great bank and museum robberies that punctuated the early invasion of Iraq.

Remind people that no matter how privatized our wars may be, it is still our sons and daughters and our tax dollars that are being stolen. If nothing else perhaps one great big money scandal will strike a mortal blow to the inhabitants of the White House.

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