Iran-Iraq War event
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Barack Obama declared_end_of
Iran-Iraq War documented
“and had expanded the crop of military companies worldwide, was ending. Wouldn't companies like Blackwater also shut down? The new inhabitants of Playas knew better. On October 21, 2011, Obama declared the Iraq War's end and announced a new …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 8:04
Ronald Reagan carried_out_attack
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“We are going to go overthrow the government of Nicaragua. We're going to go overthrow the government of Angola. We're going to go create the Iran-Iraq war. All of those things were going on during their administration. But because we were f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:38:26
CIA instigated
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“Well, they're not trying to secure resources. These are the standard oil bubba's going over there to get pennies on the dollar concessions of a devastated country that has just been blown to pieces because of a civil war that the CIA instig…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 1:26:47
Saddam Hussein started
Iran-Iraq War documented
“Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Ara…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:20:16
Kamal Adham proposed
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“Adem advised Saddam that if he became a proxy warrior against the Iranian revolutionary government, he would have the loyalty of the Saudi and the Gulf royal families and the appreciation of the Western world…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:45
Erik Prince trafficked
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“Operation Gladio involvement and several false flags, much to their benefit. Like one of the people that you brought up earlier that Eric Prince made millions and hundreds of millions of dollars profiting off of wars. Yes. Yes. I mean, that…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Africa overview_ WWF exposed @ 1:03:49
John Fredriksen trafficked
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“Also, let's see. Oh, and his very first oil dealings was in Beirut, Lebanon, where he got his initial riches off of the Iran-Iraq war. You know, the one we funded both sides of? Evidently, he did too. That war made a lot of people rich. And…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Africa overview_ WWF exposed @ 1:03:17
Lloyd's of London funded
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“and gets all of these contracts that basically then lead into the Iraq war. And we were kind of dissecting the explosion in 2003 about all of that. So they also, in that book, talked about a false flag where Lloyd's of London was not like t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:23:19
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At the same time, Bush, with his old friend, Sheikh Kamal Adem, who is the chief of intel in Saudi Arabia, that was behind the BCCI bank as well, established the tilt towards Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. It was an arms merchant's wildest …
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is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing. They basically took Saddam Hussein out to the cle…
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in isolation. In many ways, it was brought about by the same kind of Saudi manipulation that had pulled the U.S. into the Afghan war against the Soviets. Well, the CIA basically set the Soviet Union up on that one, but whatever. Adom persua…
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That was likely to end in a stalemate or worse for Iraq, because they won Iraq weakened. Once started, the war was fought on a grand scale, featuring front, miles-long, poisonous gas, inaccurate Soviet-made munitions, causing large numbers …
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As the Reagan-Bush team took over, Saddam Hussein offered two attractions. The first one was that he was the ideal hedge against Iran. The second was that billions of dollars in weapons sales meant there could be profits in the war for the …
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Then the Saudis sucked the U.S. into persuading Iraq to undertake a war in Iran. The Reagan-Bush people wanted to please the Saudi family. I soon found out the reason I was there was to make business deals with Bush's friends. And believe m…
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into Angola using South Africa. They did the exact same thing to traffic arms to Iran at inflated prices during the Iran-Iraq war in order to pay covert black money through BCCI in order to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. And so Israel has bee…
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Also, let's see. Oh, and his very first oil dealings was in Beirut, Lebanon, where he got his initial riches off of the Iran-Iraq war. You know, the one we funded both sides of? Evidently, he did too. That war made a lot of people rich. And…
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And so we have talked generically about it, but we will kind of roll it all up in a couple of shows that talk specifically about the entire drug network. Then we're going to do the arms network. And again, that comes up in almost every coun…
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Now, oh, by the way, that Major General Daniel Graham is the Graham I was just talking about in the other book, just so you guys know. Also, Richard Pearl, Richard Pearl is the guy that with Frank Lunt wrote the PR document that was given t…
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going into Iraq. So Israel wanted the U.S. to attack Iraq. They commissioned Richard Perle and Frank Luntz to write a PR campaign on how to sell it to Americans. Every single thing about Art History, guys, has been a production from the int…
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basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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He was involved, that was from 2001 to 2005, you know, when we're running the, we're going to overthrow seven governments in five years, according to General Welch. There he was focused on Middle East policy, including the Iraq War and the …
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Nicaragua and the surrounding area, for that matter. In the Bush National Security Council, Abrams pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion, co-authoring a memo that exaggerated the weapons of mass destruction and ignored intelligence to the contr…
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and the military's misadventures abroad. Personally burned by his own support for the Iraq war years prior, by 2019, Tucker had matured his foreign views. Quote, leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress, in the media, and in our intel…
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page, perhaps unseen on cable news since 2003, when MSNBC host Phil Donahue, militant opposition to the Iraq invasion, made him a network highest rated host. It also led to his termination because you're not allowed to go against the war ma…
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Blob of Latin American expats, armed industry, funded think tanks, and the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, McGregor was relegated to a Fox studio. And it was there that the rock-ribbed Republican who had led U.S. tanks in Iraq during the first Gulf …
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in February 2019. While Bolton's treacherous behavior eventually led to his dismissal, it won him a veneer of respectability within the imperial cesspool of the elite in Washington and a hero status among the liberal anti-Trump resistance e…
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Nicole Wallace was originally in the W. Bush White House, who significantly was targeted with convincing Democratic resistance to support the Iraq war in 2003. So she was a Republican. To these people, it really doesn't matter whether you'r…
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An objective of this technique was the intoxication of the masses, the poisoning of a collective mind. Clearly, SAIC and other private security concerns were deeply involved in operations leading up to the second Iraq war. The strategy of t…
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Saddam Hussein's government. The actions of various private military companies and private intelligence companies used the strategy of tension to seek to weaken and discredit that government. But rather than replacing them with a strong mil…
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most actors are likely operating out of purely monetary motivations. This is a far cry from the Italian fascist of the later half century. And I disagree with that assessment completely. They're not operating. The actual private military is…
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of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…
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basically JSOC, beginning back at the Bush Jr.'s presidency. In both cases, a killer capture program was in effect, while detainees then being subjected to enhanced interrogation, which basically was very similar to the Phoenix program to i…
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The efforts of Brennan and Clapper to launch Russiagate have proven to be disastrous and discrediting to the U.S. intelligence community the same way that the Iraq weapons of mass destruction debacle did decades ago. But it is a long game t…
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Saddam Hussein, who was called the lion of the lion of the Mideast by U.S. forces during the Iran-Iraq war. Yeah, he was totally installed by the CIA. Suddenly he becomes, we have to topple him from power because he's slaughtering babies an…
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Some of DeVos' legal fees paid by Harvey Silette, the tax attorney in Chicago, who was also representing Burton Cantner, came from this account on the Isle of Jersey, according to Florida investigators. A former Israeli intelligence officer…
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Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…
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Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Ara…
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That's what the primary belief is. Because their whole thing was that they were pissed off at all of that. And that's what happened during the Iran-Iraq war. There are Western countries still with concessions pumping oil out of that. And th…
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Bush's goal was to ensure that we not lose our strategic oil supply by too much of a tilt towards Israel. He was already orchestrating the first opening in a tilt to Iraq in its war with Iran. Hugel was a threat. Inman reported back to Bush…
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It doesn't seem possible. While Casey was helping the Israelis, the man around George Bush had already begun to do business with Saddam Hussein, though. So there's a huge question mark there. Because of Weiss, the Israelis began to realize …
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These activities were staggering in scale. The supply lines to feed the violence of the Iran-Iraq war required a huge pipeline. The Israeli efforts to supply Iran became so formal that the Secretary of State was notified in advance of major…
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told him that cocaine was being imported to the U.S. by both sides in the war to raise funds. Private funding for the Afghan rebels and Christian money through UNITA, which is in Angola, by the way, and Jonas Sadambi fighting also became ad…
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had made no progress on the job that he had been hired to do, which was modifying the artillery. Instead, he had spent the millions of dollars the defense ministry had given him to modify Scud missiles with new extended second stages and on…
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to allow the Eastern Bloc war materials to transship through Iraq to the anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan. In other words, they were using Iraq as a shipping place. The irony of Saudi Arabia's paying Saddam to fight Muslim fundam…
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At the hotel in Geneva, Sarkis' suite became a waiting room for everyone trying to sell something to Iraq. The bizarre-like atmosphere vanished when Sarkis received an emergency call from Krayola. The largest Iranian human wave attack of th…
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and had begun working directly with the Bush operation. That's Vice President Bush. But the CIA's main hope for the change in Iraq was not Kamal, but Kraywalla. The popular defense minister, King Jordan, had kept in constant contact with Kr…
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From an intelligence and control standpoint, it was extreme in Iran. Don't get me wrong. But it was not from a CIA controlled perspective. And you find that later on when we're dealing with Iran on multiple occasions. Supposedly the bad one…
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get it messages, both of which Yusuf figured CIA ought to have known. The ISI leader loved the CIA satellite photos and its radio intercepts, but thought the secret warriors spent too much time spinning their wheels. Bert Dunn, the incoming…
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and gets all of these contracts that basically then lead into the Iraq war. And we were kind of dissecting the explosion in 2003 about all of that. So they also, in that book, talked about a false flag where Lloyd's of London was not like t…
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and subsequent Patriot Act expanding the police intelligence agency powers. And it quotes Snowden as saying, quote, the government took and used the 9-11 attacks to justify programs that never have been shown to keep us safe, that took libe…
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And as we have seen, they've also been recruited into the CIA, into the FBI, and into Congress. Unsurprisingly, the process of consolidation is also unfolding among contractors who deal with these elite soldiers. During the onset of the Ira…
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An objective of this technique was the intoxication of the masses, the poisoning of a collective mind. Clearly, SAIC and other private security concerns were deeply involved in operations leading up to the second Iraq war. The strategy of t…
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Saddam Hussein's government. The actions of various private military companies and private intelligence companies used the strategy of tension to seek to weaken and discredit that government. But rather than replacing them with a strong mil…
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And in the case of Iraq, it was to control the oil. And we know what Syria is. It's about a pipeline they want to finish. They want boots on the ground in Syria and they want to be able to control Syria. So there is a known objective in eac…
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of counterinsurgency. Both Galula and Phoenix would prove to be enormously influential on how U.S. operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006, the U.S. Army published a new counterinsurgency field manual, FM 3-24. One of its authors was none…
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basically JSOC, beginning back at the Bush Jr.'s presidency. In both cases, a killer capture program was in effect, while detainees then being subjected to enhanced interrogation, which basically was very similar to the Phoenix program to i…
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at first protecting its bases, then directly participating in CIA missions. But the unveiling of the private military security companies would occur in Iraq. By the time the Iraq invasion happened on March 30, 2003, the U.S. government was …
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on behalf of the Pentagon to discuss Iraq's fragile economy, its years of misrule by the CIA-installed guy, Saddam Hussein, and the potential impact of an invasion on such conditions, including the expansion of insurgent forces. The possibi…
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By May 1st of 2003, when Bush stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier and announced to the world the invasion of Iraq was a success, the possibility of losing the peace was looming. Rampant looting, street violence were escalating, and so…
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What options did you have? See how they create their own cottage industry on the backs of dead bodies? To ask Congress for more troops would have been irrefutable evidence that the invasion of Iraq was not planned well. Other than leaving t…
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There was Vice President Dick Cheney's former employer, Halliburton, whose subsidiary KBR, Inc., formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root, would eventually earn more than $40 billion, with a B, in Iraq. And then there was MPRI, which by the time of t…
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was one of the several firms that began shortly after 9-11. Its founder was a former Army Ranger and, conveniently, a former CIA agent. But the most visible of the newcomers would be Blackwater, which would easily qualify as a bona fide mer…
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The more you go on about this and the fact that the CIA is sitting over here doing the exact same thing, but all of the light is being shined on the NSA tells you everything that you need to know about the whole setup. Ironically, on the ve…
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This time, unlike the explosion of private military security companies in Iraq, there was a chance to establish accountability before the gold rush began. In Iraq, an industry that instigated a major shift in how we defend and source our na…
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They belong to whatever government, corporation, or NGO sought their services. In the early months of 2014, a reminder of the private military company's independence became apparent. In Iraq, where al-Qaeda forces were strengthening and vio…
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In the U.S., private military made it possible to stretch beyond the capability of traditional military to fulfill the missions required by our foreign policy, conducting what author Bakovich referred to as imperial policing. How else could…
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more than 150 companies from 46 nations would sign the code. By the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in 2013, there would be more than 700 signatures. 700 companies. As with the endorsement of the Montreux document, the 2010 signing…
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formerly the School of Americas. The new play has opened in 2004, and for the next seven years, its client base consisted mostly of first responders and U.S. military personnel, like local cops. Then in March 2011, its clientele shifted to …
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Among the last things most Americans were thinking about in 2011 was the use of land in the United States to train private military contractors for security in Iraq. Private military contractors were as far from the minds of most Americans …
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and had expanded the crop of military companies worldwide, was ending. Wouldn't companies like Blackwater also shut down? The new inhabitants of Playas knew better. On October 21, 2011, Obama declared the Iraq War's end and announced a new …
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Over the next two months, our troop in Iraq, tens of thousands of them will pack up their gear, board convoys, and journey home, unquote. But as U.S. soldiers packed their duffel bags, private contractors were en route to Iraq. Joining the …
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Utah Republican congressman told his colleagues when President Obama tells the American people the forces will be out of Iraq, I'm not sure the average American will understand that the forces will be replaced by private army of security co…
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The number of personnel under the authority of the U.S. ambassador was set to increase from 8,000 to 16,000, half of which would be private military contractors. Some were contracted as armed guards protecting personnel leaving the embassy,…
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And after every one of these, those arms flood the world. Others were hired to defuse explosives and still others were part of armed response teams. Many would be performing quasi-military functions, doing everything expected of a soldier e…
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For most Americans, the apparent end of the war implied the end of private military contractors as well. There had been no recent reports of any misconduct. The name Blackwater was no longer visible in the newspaper, but there were ongoing …
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The end of wars and the homecoming of troops either spawned private military insecurity or bolstered existing ones. This time, the process was spurred by the White House Joining Forces Initiative, a program to help U.S. servicemen and women…
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thousand veterans to its workforce. Long after the troops had returned home, the private security companies and the diplomatic personnel would be representing America and Iraq in the region. The importance of Iraq to the United States strat…
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that had no regulation and no accountability. A concerned members of Congress commission on wartime contracting commented that the presence of such large firms as private contractors would increase the chances that people acting in the name…
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as it was consistent with the secrecy of a national security state. In August 2011, after three years of studying federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Commission on Wartime Contracting issued a final report that sent a message o…
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And the foreword began, quote, contractors represent more than half of the U.S. presence in the contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, at times employing more than a quarter million people. It ended with a strident warning. Delay a…
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or domestic response to a national security, like a massive terror attack or natural disaster. Reform will save lives and money and support U.S. interests. Reform is essential now. When David Eisenberg, the Beltway writer who persistently p…
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For those following the saga of private military contractors, Eisenberg praised the hard work of the commissioners, who had conducted numerous hearings and hundreds of interviews, had traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan, and had worked out of …
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about the U.S. dependency on the industry. Quote, because the heavy reliance on contractors have overwhelmed the government's ability to conduct proper planning, management, and oversight of the contingency contracting function, the commiss…
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Other parts just didn't seem possible. For example, the category of spending called miscellaneous foreign contractors totaled $38 billion out of $206 billion spent on contracts since 2002. The commissioners could not determine what that cat…
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After a thorough analysis of spending, they calculated that from at least $31 billion to as much as $60 billion had been lost. Clearly, if one could bring back Willie Sutton from the dead, he would be a private contractor, not a bank robber…
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for the job of managing the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after troop withdrawals. The commissioners claimed the State Department had not made necessary changes for good governance of private contractors. It would soon have the auth…
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An earlier study had shown that many of the contractor abuse in Iraq for the first several years were caused by those working for the State Department, not the Pentagon. The commissioners stressed that this could result in significant addit…
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though close to the heart of the reason for America's dependence on private military contractors, because they don't want dead military and they don't give a crap about dead contractors. Between October 2001 and July 2011, there had been 2,…
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arm-to-arm combat, but they had a third of the casualties compared to U.S. military who was involved in hand-to-hand combat. And in the period from 2009 to 2011, contractors' deaths, including local and third country nationals, actually exc…
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Private contractor casualties were never publicized. After troop withdrawal, the American public would not have any idea about the full human cost of American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter where the U.S. sent private milita…
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This was because the government's figures were based on insurance claims and many foreign contractor employees from third parties may have been unaware of they even had an insurance capability. Because they didn't speak English. Of equal co…
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like Nambia, Uganda, Mozambique, and Burundi, an issue that had been discussed in 2007. In an earlier report in 2010, the commission had revealed an array of statistics regarding the nationalities of the private military contractor employee…
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If the firm had secured a contract in the U.S. and profited from it, the attorneys argued it was taking advantage of business opportunities in the U.S. and should be held liable there. What comes with opportunity are the laws, said one of C…
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The entire Iraq war was bullshit. The entire six month deployment and time away, missing my daughter's birthday, all of that stuff. And then obviously some of the people don't ever go home. And to have experienced that.…
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I just want to say, you know, I can relate to both of you guys because, obviously, I was in the first Gulf War. And I think, Colonel, you and I have actually had this discussion. And, you know, you're right. Everything is bullshit. And I wa…
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We are going to go overthrow the government of Nicaragua. We're going to go overthrow the government of Angola. We're going to go create the Iran-Iraq war. All of those things were going on during their administration. But because we were f…
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Political history, especially, well, first of all, among the entire population, but especially among the Democrats, and arguably even more so on the fake-controlled, compatible left, has been completely erased. What do I mean by that? Howar…
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Obituaries have transformed the terror that Bush inflicted as head of the CIA, as Ronald Reagan's vice president, and as president on the poor countries, depicting it as heroism. The invasion of Panama is given scant notice, and the first G…
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And then he says that that's what led to 9-11. I vehemently disagree with him. But it also did lead to the debacle in Iraq and the entire accusation of weapons of mass destruction, which we'll talk about later. So the worst of the three was…
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co-authored While America Sleeps, Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today. That was in the year 2000. And Frederick's out there warning in 2000 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This is the origin for the fal…
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described a surge strategy in Iraq, and this is a quote, and how some high-ranking U.S. officers claim to have pacified the country and thus won the war. Are you freaking kidding me? Yeah. Talk about revisionist history. Everything they did…
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So if that's coming over the next 10 years, it's going up like tenfold. All right, a little bit more about the ISW. Just as an example, they've been proponents for military action in the following places, and they got every single one of th…
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He actually did some good. Crystal was a huge advocate for the invasion of Iraq. And he sits on boards, I've got that one wrong, of Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and…
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People don't remember Dan Quayle was famous for saying some really stupid things. People questioned his IQ. All right. Crystal in 1998, with Robert Kagan, he wrote a New York Times piece where he said, bombing Iraq isn't enough. This is in …
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These are the papers that were pushing the neocons into this war before 9-11 ever happened. They're setting the stage. They already knew it was going to happen. They knew 9-11 was going to happen. They are setting the stage. Here's a quote.…