BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq

Subject: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 01:58 PM

The defense and security corporations are there for the duration but GE, BP and many others are outta there.

They seem to understand sunk costs are sunk, and dieing in or out of vain like the Bush military is simply not a sound business choice.

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Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:17 PM

Somehow getting your butt shot off tends to take the glee out of the profit potential.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:42 PM

Don, thats what a truck driver from Texas said when he came back to the US after working for 80K a month in Iraq.

The wages for security guards in Iraq (former US officers) can be over $400,000 a year.

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 04:24 AM

Let's face it - profits for American Corporations is the only reason Bush sent troops in. It'll serve him right if they stab him in the back big time...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: Cluin
Date: 01 May 04 - 03:27 AM

A lot of yip-yap surrounding a simple truth... the whole thing was about money but none of it is worth the lives lost, on either side of the dumb-ass equation.

Jaysus, this was a stupid move all the way `round.

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: MARINER
Date: 01 May 04 - 02:22 PM

Should these "Security Men" be properly refered to as mercenaries? I read somewhere, maybe on another thread that the Iraqi prisoners in those ,now infamous, photographs were being "softened up" before the army passed them on to "Civilian Interrogators". Has GWB privatised the war to that extent? Great job for a civvy psycho.

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: dianavan
Date: 01 May 04 - 02:50 PM

Mariner - I posed the same question in another discussion. Who are these "civilian interrogators"? Apparently they are not under military command and cannot be charged or tried in military court. As you stated, the torture of the Iraqis by the U.S. military was, apparently, to "soften" them for interrogation. What laws apply to the interrogators?

Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq
From: DougR
Date: 01 May 04 - 02:56 PM

Geoff the Duck: now I can legitimatly use a statement that I used on another thread (about U. S. soldiers torturing Iraqis)but it was not legitimate in that thread. It is in this thread in reply to your statement of April 20th. The statement?

Horse pucky.

DougR