Yeah, I recently saw a documentary about all of the private defense contractor contracts that were paid for with taxpayer money. No one outside of the crooked and well-connected circle of friends even had a chance to bid for the contracts and the price tag on them was outrageously inflated, assuring that they would indeed receive their ridiculous asking price. They paid these private contractor operators about 5 and 6 times what the US military was paying it's own soldiers for a salary. The fact that they get paid more than enlisted military personnel is not so bad, but when it's 5 or 6 times more than the Army pays, that's pretty fucking ridiculous. Soldiers were intentionally getting kicked out of the military in order to go to work for these contractors to receive the better pay.They bought shitloads equipment. Office furniture and supplies, trucks, expensive SUV's, computers, etc. A lot of the shit they never used and just junked. When an expensive truck would have a small problem that could be repaired, instead of repairing the truck and continuing to use it, they'd just junk it and buy a brand new one.On one occasion they absent-mindedly sent an unarmored convoy of military style fuel trucks driven by civilian contracted drivers through an area where they had reasonable intelligence indicating that an ambush was likely and they didn't provide the convoy with an armed escort. The convoy was in fact ambushed and several of the drivers were killed in a hail of automatic gunfire. And no one ever lost their job over the incident or was charged with anything.Basically, these contractors were spending insanely unreasonable amounts of money and stealing millions and millions of taxpayer dollars, all of it seemingly completely sanctioned by the US government. So if people wanna claim it was a war about oil, maybe they should consider the fact certain people were getting a helluva lot richer off things OTHER than oil after the fall of Saddam.This is precisely why I decided not to join the military several years ago after giving it serious consideration. I was not willing to risk death in some far away place for a President whose motives and actions weren't clearly based on real evidence that the occupied territory was an imminent threat to national and/or international security. The ones that DO serve... I feel for them. They're patriots who love their country and serve bravely, and I'm proud of them for it and thankful for their service. But I still think they're pretty crazy to make themselves pawns in a game of life and death where it seems like the mere pursuit of money is the reason for the game's existence. Not THIS white boy.
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September 19, 2024, 08:50:42 PM