DancingCorpse wrote:
If I remember dick(h) cheney's fave pals halliburton changed their name to Academi and then Xe or something, I have read a lot about their scheming in the past.
You're thinking Blackwater, military contractors with a really spooky name. Responsible for a few atrocities in Iraq that led to propaganda victories for anti-US Islamists, because then they could say: "see? Look what America did!"
Politicians need to read their Machiavelli. Don't rely on mercenaries to fight your wars for you. It never ends well, because they have no vested interest whatsoever in ensuring stability and may even stab you in the back if it'll net them more money.
Halliburton is mostly a reconstruction company, their interest in Iraq was the rebuilding contracts.
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