Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with...

Cast

Shereef Akeel	...	Himself
Hassan Al-Azzawi	...	Himself
Al Haj Ali	...	Himself
Scott Allen	...	Himself
Keith Ashdown	...	Himself
Mark Benjamin	...	Himself
Doug Brooks	...	Himself
Henry Bunting	...	Himself
George W. Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Ben Carter	...	Himself
Joshua Casteel	...	Himself
Pratap Chatterjee	...	Himself
Dick Cheney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Bud Conyers	...	Himself
Charlie Cray	...	Himself
Aidan Delgado	...	Himself
Marie de Young	...	Herself
Christopher Dodd	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jim Donahue	...	Himself
Byron Dorgan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Kelly Dougherty	...	Herself
Chris Farrell	...	Himself
Alan Grayson	...	Himself
Bunnatine Greenhouse	...	Herself
Scott Helvenston	...	Himself (archive footage)
Katy Helvenston-Wettengal	...	Herself
Hollie Hulett	...	Herself
Duncan Hunter	...	Himself (archive footage)
Peter Jennings	...	Himself (archive footage)
April Johnson	...	Herself
Kim Johnson	...	Herself
Janis Karpinski	...	Herself
Anthony Lagouranis	...	Himself
Patrick Leahy	...	Himself (archive footage)
Chris Lehane	...	Himself
Charles Lewis	...	Himself
James Logsdon	...	Himself
David Mann	...	Himself
Marwan Mawiri	...	Himself
Geoffrey Millard	...	Himself (as Geoff Millard)
Bill Peterson	...	Himself
Ralph Peters	...	Himself
Shane Ratliff	...	Himself
Massie Ritsch	...	Himself
Edward Sanchez	...	Himself
Rick Santorum	...	Himself (archive footage)
Stewart Scott	...	Himself
John Warner	...	Himself (archive footage)
Henry Waxman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Donna Zovko	...	Herself
Jozo Zovko	...	Himself
Tommy Zovko	...	Himself

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Company:

Brave New Films

his movie opens many doors that don't want to be opened

Just recently saw this on DVD and I have to say it opened my eyes to some of these issues with private contractors. Now I knew already that Halliburton and CACI and all those other companies really had no logical place in a war such as the one in Iraq, but some of the stuff they did like purposefully destroy their own equipment (in some cases sending their own employees in harm's way and having them killed by insurgents) because they would get compensated for it and profits would rise, is just plain monstrous. Not only that, but the amount of money that Congress has subsidized these companies is just incredibly outrageous. Money that could be used towards the $8 TRILLION dollar debt, or improving the health care system, or funding the education system better. And then using private contractors to do intelligence operations, such as interrogations...you saw what happened at Abu Graib - half the sickos who did the torture weren't even the military.

I mean WTF, America it's time to wake up!! Congress is incompetent since the majority always turns down all the major amendments that would control these types of criminal activities, with lobbyists controlling almost all of the legislative branch. And since Deick Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton, you can see where this is connecting the dots.