Why are Republican front companies stealing billions in Iraq not getting arrested?

Question

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/09/60minutes/main1302378.shtml

"Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that’s $2 million there," Willis explains, looking at a photo of brick-shaped stacks of money wrapped in plastic. "This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles."

Custer Battles, Inc. - The company had been started by Scott Custer, a former Army Ranger and Mike Battles, an unsuccessful congressional candidate from Rhode Island who claimed to be active in the Republican Party and have connections at the White House. They arrived in Baghdad with no money. Yet within a year they landed $100 million in contracts.

Frank Willis, coalitional authority 2nd in command: "I think that what they were doing was of the nature of what I understand war-profiteering to be about"

"The Coalition Authority not only refused to throw Custer Battles off the airport job, it wrote them a glowing review and continued to give them contracts"

What does smoking crack have to do with a news report on 60 minutes? Don't answer, I already know.

Answer 1

Excuse me, but are you aware that the Republicans are in office? They wrote the book on stealing other people's money, cheating, bribing, and profiteering.

Do you think LimpDick Cheney is going to refuse to give Halliburton billions of government money? Hell, no - he's a major stockholder!

Government arrogance, incompetency, and lack of business acumen all add up to mega-million-dollar opportunities for contractors who know how to manipulate the system and steal billions from American taxpayers. -RKO-

Answer 2

The US uses many companies overseas, doing jobs to free up American troops. The costs of doing business in Iraq is very high, for obvious reasons.

And they are paid for services they do, not stealing things.

And there are about 5 US companies providing various secuirity to places around Iraq and other middle eastern nations..

And of course they did not say this company did anything wrong, only this was thiere payment which was due. Everyone complained that we should not use just one vendor in Iraq, so many people started up companies to do this work, hiring retired and ex soldiers ( at about 100,000 a year a person) My son was offered a job by several of these firms.

Answer 3

Does that seem reasonable to you? Does your mind not question something like this that maybe there is information that you do not have? Maybe, just maybe this is a sensational story that grabs headlines and gets lots of people worked up. But it has nothing to it. Do you honestly believe that if this was happening as they wrote it, it would not be on every news channel, all day long?
A little critical thinking class might be in order.
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Answer 4

Did you see who the president is?

Answer 5

Yeah...and like CBS isn't biased?

Answer 6

why do you believe everything the news says

Answer 7

STOP SMOKING CRACK