Here's something we can get stopped with the Dems in control of the House. With pResident 'Skank' & Uncle Dick in charge it's been open house to corruption. Give up on the 30% of Faux News watchers & Limpball listeners, they don't know, they don't want to know. But there's plenty of people who'd care if they knew what's going on. Unfortunately there's not a 'librul' media there's a media that's owned by gazillionaires with their snouts in the trough. Maybe we can get the 'equal time' provision back that Ronnie 'Wetbrain' Raygun deregulated. Everytime the networks shows crap like Path to 9/11 they have to show a documentary like this. The morons can do without two more hours of brain-melting reality TV or hyped up no-talent talent shows...

A new film uses the $45 six-pack of Coke to open another front in the political battle over Iraq, decrying what it calls profiteering and incompetence by defense contractors with the right political connections.

Robert Greenwald, who took aim at Wal-Mart in a 2005 documentary, has turned his lens on private firms hired to help the U.S. military fight the war in Iraq with the just-released "Iraq for Sale."

He is raising questions about outsourcing for an unpopular war in time for the November congressional elections.

The film's premise that billions are being diverted to companies that are overcharging U.S. taxpayers for shoddy services, as illustrated by the expensive soda pop or a purported $100 fee for washing a bag of laundry.

Other jobs outsourced under multimillion-dollar contracts included interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib or security details in which private contractors have been killed.

The film quotes a three sources saying the U.S. military in Iraq paid $45 for Coca-Cola -- it was for either a case or a six-pack, depending on who's talking. The assertion is meant to undercut the belief that hiring private contractors is cost-efficient...

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Others in the film who have received multimillion-dollar contracts from the Pentagon -- information and communications contractor Titan Corp., a unit of L-3 Communications; security company Blackwater; and information technology company CACI -- declined to comment or did not return phone calls seeking comment.

"When I first heard about the Cokes, I thought, well, one person did that so we're not going to use that. And we heard it a second time, and a third time and a fourth time. So we began to focus on the corporate pattern," Greenwald told Reuters.

That pattern, the documentary asserts, shows a "revolving door" in which high-ranking officers leave the Pentagon to join defense contractors, which in turn lobby members of Congress and contribute millions of dollars to their electoral campaigns.

Those factors, combined with the pressure of supplying the troops at war in Iraq, created what Greenwald called a "perfect storm" for corruption.

The director said he hopes the documentary calls attention to military outsourcing in time for the November congressional elections. The Democratic Policy Committee, a party oversight body, will hold hearings on the topic in Washington on Monday.

"As a citizen, I'm looking for my elected leaders to protect me, to protect my tax dollars and to protect my security," Greenwald said. "And the obscenity over war profiteering is doing neither."...http://tinyurl.com/zhycn
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