Comments on: The Great Iraq Swindle http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:25:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: War on Taxmoney « Cairene’s Nilometer http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389159 War on Taxmoney « Cairene’s Nilometer Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:09:45 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389159 [...] Development and Politics Cairene 5:06 pm Thanks, one again, to the folks behind the Arabist for highlighting this article in the Rolling Stone. There are some other articles linked to, including in the [...] [...] Development and Politics Cairene 5:06 pm Thanks, one again, to the folks behind the Arabist for highlighting this article in the Rolling Stone. There are some other articles linked to, including in the [...]

]]> By: SP http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389075 SP Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:38 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389075 Another (less colourful, malesh) article on this mess, and on intra-Iraqi govt corruption, from the LRB: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n17/harr04_.html Another (less colourful, malesh) article on this mess, and on intra-Iraqi govt corruption, from the LRB:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n17/harr04_.html

]]> By: I work for a government contractor and I'd prefer to remain anonymous http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389059 I work for a government contractor and I'd prefer to remain anonymous Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:56:15 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/29/the-great-iraq-swindle/#comment-389059 government contracting is raping us at home as well. i live in the dc area and if you take a 2.5 hour trip around the beltway (like cairo's ring road) you will see at least (not joking) 45 buildings plastered with 'lockheed martin' across the top. In one respect, lockheed is far more efficient than any government could be, but they are ultimately not transparent and completely unaccountable to the people they are contracted to protect. republicans love (LOVE) to promise small government but fail to explain these massive size and frequency of these contracts. government contracting is raping us at home as well. i live in the dc area and if you take a 2.5 hour trip around the beltway (like cairo’s ring road) you will see at least (not joking) 45 buildings plastered with ‘lockheed martin’ across the top. In one respect, lockheed is far more efficient than any government could be, but they are ultimately not transparent and completely unaccountable to the people they are contracted to protect. republicans love (LOVE) to promise small government but fail to explain these massive size and frequency of these contracts.

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