Comments on: Army Probes Wide-Ranging Contractor Fraud

Officials Open Nearly 50 Investigations Of Battlefield Contractors Involved In Iraq

[fleshmonger6]

The U.S. fought a world war, feed the troops, got the laundry done, and a million other things in the warzone without using private or public companies in the combat zone and though it was a system that was not perfect by any means, it did not lead to anything like the morass the U.S. finds itself in now. People should not get caught up in just the current situation either as bad as it appears to be because the more successful of these same private and public groups will undoubtedly go on to use the contacts and the influence they have amassed during this conflict to become even greater evils in the years to come. If one wants to know how scary this all is, learn for yourself about the growth of privately held armies and ask yourself whether or not they will all be disbanded when this war ends and if not, what could they be used for in the decades to come?

[inventagod]

Ya DIDN'T see this comin', huh? Jeeze, with all the failures in this administration, what's next?

[dallison7]

I hope they shut these companies down and throw the CEOs in jail. Punishment should include jail time.
Posted by bellaL at 12:59 AM : Jan 28, 2007


And you are including Halliburton, correct?

[exusmcsgt]

My solution is term limits on all politicians. Greed is a disease that grows with time and the only vacine is termination.

Posted by haneyr at 07:43 AM

Our founding father never anticipated the professional politician. Thus, we have no constitutional term limit provision except for the presidency which was written in because many feared Washington would stay on until death.

When the constitution was framed, representatives left their farm or business, went to serve as a citizen and then returned to their private life.

I'm with you - one term and out.

[bluestardad]

Media
Quit covering these animals in the Middle East and let them butcher themselves off camera. We have spent 50 years of time blood and money trying to civilize them to western standards and it does not work. Do they own your Job or what? Quit Covering them!

OK here is your chance, don%u2019t just set in front of your computer and complain spouting meaningless rants of sludge, do something about it! This is the contact address for your Senator! Send them a message of your opinion. All Class Two Senators are up for Reelection in 2008. Be respectful even if they do not deserve it because their office does! http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_in
formation/senators_cfm.cfm

[haneyr-2009]

Let me see if I have this straight.

Warfare is supported only by the right wing republicans and we lose billions of dollars in fraud.

Welfare is supported only by the left wing democrats and we lose billions of dollars in fraud.

So everyone stop your whining. Corruption is not a political idealogy but a human failing. You don't like it then do something more than cuddle up to a group of people that are just as corrupt at the pork barrell as the other.

My solution is term limits on all politicians. Greed is a disease that grows with time and the only vacine is termination.

Flat taxes on everyone who works or makes money in the USA period. No deductions. You work harder you keep more. You don't work you get workfare.

Accountability is the key word here. And I agree with the person who said throw the crooks in jail. We are too quick to seek financial damages than personal responsibility. And here is where my last suggestion comes in. Penal colonies where they work to live.

[bluestardad]

America GET out of Iraq and the Middle East quit selling them weapons, learn how to make Bio-Fuel or Clean-Coal Fuel and let the Middle East drink the oil and eat the sand! They cut the Oil off in the middle Seventies and we still have not gotten independent from Middle East Oil! Media quit covering these people in the Middle East let them blow each other up without our kids seeing it on the news! Who in the American Media is forcing our media to cover this violence in the Middle East? America has paid for the entire Middle East for the last Fifty Years in Lives, Blood and Tax Money and this investment has brought us the Chaos we have today. It is time to try something else! The Middle East has been fighting since the Sons of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac were born. Americans come home and let the Middle East be Isolated! The entire Middle East is not worth one more American Life or Dollar!

[bluestardad]

You Think!@ damnyourdumb!

[bellal-2009]

I hope they shut these companies down and throw the CEOs in jail. Punishment should include jail time.

[themooniac]

This is what happens when in republican-speak " private indutry does it better". God help all of us if the republicans ever suceed in privatising Social Security...