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FAHRENHEIT 9/11 -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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DHL and other corporations invited Halliburton ...
to a conference ...
to figure out how much money ...
could be made in Iraq.
Michael Mele, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Having worked this effort ...
even since before the the invasion ...
the liberation of Iraq started. ______________ Librarian's Comments: "Risky Business," by Naomi Klein, The Nation, 1/5/04, wrote: The reconstruction of Iraq has emerged as a vast protectionist racket, a neocon New Deal that transfers limitless public funds -- in contracts, loans and insurance -- to private firms, and even gets rid of the foreign competition to boot, under the guise of "national security." Ironically, these firms are being handed this corporate welfare so they can take full advantage of CPA-imposed laws that systematically strip Iraqi industry of all its protections, from import tariffs to limits on foreign ownership. Michael Fleisher, head of private-sector development for the CPA, recently explained to a group of Iraqi businesspeople why these protections had to be removed. "Protected businesses never, never become competitive," he said. Quick, somebody tell OPIC and Paul Wolfowitz.
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