Monday, January 15, 2007

Can't help it.. here I go again.

Now, I want to make it clear that my political statement are unfounded and pure speculation. It's just me putting my two and two together.

The government is outsourcing personal in the way of hiring private contractors to do the work the military used to do at a much higher price I might add. Corporations exist to make a profit so keep that in mind. Contracted personal do not have an allegiance with the government. And here you have several corporations but none of them working together with a common chain of command. No direct supervision because the high of command is in the United States somewhere. In other words there is minimum supervision. After Blackwater employees killings and after the prison torture scandal lead by "civilians" nothing changed. The big corporations got paid very much to go to Iraq and made in a week what soldiers made in about a year. Why would any military personal re-enlist when they could then go to a private corporation and keep made so much more. By the way, an American "woman" solder took the fall for the CACI employees brutal treatment of solders. There was no reason for using torture or using people not qualified to do interrigation work. Blackwater, Titan, CACI, Halliburton and more I'm sure. These companies were only interested in hiring personnel and half of them were not qualified to do the work.

Can you tell I just watched "Iraq for Sale" The War Profiteers" again.

I'm getting the feeling that the money is going full circle.. well not exactly.. the American citizens are not receiving any benefits from their tax dollars. Well, soon but then many services are being cut..the money is all going to the war corporations contractors. And these corporations are not being held accountable. U.S. soldiers will be prosecuted but civilian contractors are not. They are being perfect for some reason and G. W. Bush acts like he doesn't know the answer. He told the reporter that he would call the Secretary of Defense himself. Rumsfeld dodged the bullets too and answered in generalizations. Washington wants to protect the securities of these no bid corporate contractors and not go after them; but, put the blame on an American solder like I said in regards to the "prison abuse" situation, a woman took the fall.

Corporations CEO are ex-military and figured out how to buy influence by contributed millions to their campaigning party.

So men who fight as American soldiers came back feeling disgraced about what their country has done and how people and soldiers are poorly treated in Iraq. When American went to Iraq, KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton was over there immediately..they took over soldier's radio repair jobs but the soldier had to train them and got put on guard duty while KBR got to do the work. Any logistics jobs got outsourced to KBR or other contracted corporations. There are almost more civilians over there riding supply trucks than soldiers.

As I was fixing my Philadelphia cream cheese, jalapeno pepper spread and getting out wheat crackers I'm thinking more about "Iraq for Sale" the documentary featuring whistle blowers. And here is what I"m thinking. Evidently the government and these big corporations do not care if any civilian or solder gets killed.. they will cut corners to save a buck that can go into their pockets. It just seems to me that they pay employees big bucks and then skimp on safety features or they plain don't care. What's an employee? They can always get more from where they came from.. unqualified mostly. Such as Titan translators who could barely speak Arabic but were hired as translators. There was no system of qualifications and did not follow up. In other words; these corporations just took the money and hired just any body; they were mainly concerned with acquiring the government's tax payers money. If someone get killed they just hire another employee. Just another person they can bill the government bill.

So, I guess our government doesn't care about patriotism or loyalty from American citizens; because what patriotic feeling anyone may have had is going down the drain. Big corporations are putting big bucks into republican campaign funds and reaping the rewards for doing so by getting no bid contracts set up by politicians. Bottom line is that contractors' personnel are not be protected in Iraq and the government is letting them get away with it.

Another thing, big ex military personnel are hired as CEO's of these corporations and get all the new government contracts. They just left government jobs so they have connections.

Blackwater just build a huge new headquarters and said they they could assemble a private army in a matter of hours and send them anywhere around the world. These corporations are not providing the proper protection for their employees over there in Iraq.

Companies operating in a war zone should be held accountable but they are not.

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