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9. K&R. Hope this will hasten De-Privatizing the Military. Privatization breeds corruption.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:34 PM

Jan 2013

The argument in favor of privatization was that it would be cheaper and more efficient and more accountable.

Instead, it brought in major war profiteering that has been much more expensive, less efficient and less accountable.

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Papantonio: KBR Committing Fraud All Over The Planet [View all] GoLeft TV Jan 2013 OP

Let them pay for it themselves!!! Tigress DEM Jan 2013 #1

waterboarding onthefence1 Jan 2013 #2

Torture doesn't work, period! Unknown Beatle Jan 2013 #5

Look, you can't GET much more responsible for terror than Cheney. Tigress DEM Jan 2013 #6

But we'd be outsourcing the torture AND giving them an American to boot. Tigress DEM Jan 2013 #7

That is, of course, a natural reaction... ljm2002 Jan 2013 #14

kick rhett o rick Jan 2013 #3

cheney is a heartless asshole! Unknown Beatle Jan 2013 #4

I get a kick out of Pap when he says: kitt6 Jan 2013 #8

K&R. Hope this will hasten De-Privatizing the Military. Privatization breeds corruption. Overseas Jan 2013 #9

Bush administration will go down in the history of the US as the most corrupt EVER benld74 Jan 2013 #10

Kellog, Br kitt6 Jan 2013 #11

More proof JEB Jan 2013 #12

K&R again for the many details about KBR's war profiteering Overseas Jan 2013 #13