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29 Apr 04 - 01:58 PM (#1174227) Subject: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: Donuel 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. http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/flagiraqa.jpg |
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29 Apr 04 - 02:17 PM (#1174242) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: Don Firth Somehow getting your butt shot off tends to take the glee out of the profit potential. Don Firth |
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29 Apr 04 - 02:42 PM (#1174266) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: Donuel 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. |
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30 Apr 04 - 04:24 AM (#1174731) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: Geoff the Duck 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. |
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01 May 04 - 03:27 AM (#1175620) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: Cluin 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. |
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01 May 04 - 02:22 PM (#1175995) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: MARINER 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. |
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01 May 04 - 02:50 PM (#1176018) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: dianavan 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? |
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01 May 04 - 02:56 PM (#1176024) Subject: RE: BS: Corporations fleeing Iraq From: DougR 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 |
