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我是看英文报道的。 主要还是看FACTS。
调查犯罪， 当然还是犯罪动机， 谁是得益者。
贴上一份报道from Financial Times

Contractors reap $138bn from Iraq war

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        An analysis by the Financial Times reveals the extent to which both American and foreign companies have profited from the conflict – with the top 10 contractors securing business worth at least $72bn between them.

None has benefited more than KBR, once known as Kellogg Brown and Root. The controversial former subsidiary of Halliburton, which was once run by Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, was awarded at least $39.5bn in federal contracts related to the Iraq war over the past decade.

Two Kuwaiti companies – Agility Logistics and the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation – are the second and third-biggest winners, securing contracts worth $7.2bn and $6.3bn respectively.

The US hired more private companies in Iraq than in any previous war, and at times there were more contractors than military personnel on the ground.

“These numbers are staggering,” said Claire McCaskill, the Democratic senator who has led the charge to tighten contracting controls.
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        Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for the International Oil Trading Co, a Florida-based company that secured contracts worth $2.1bn to transport fuel from Jordan to US forces in Iraq, said: “We are proud to have effectively supplied jet and convoy fuel in a war zone to the US military.”..


        

        Instead, the US had created a fifth branch of the military, he said. “It’s called the private sector.”

The extensive use of contractors in both Iraq and in Afghanistan has been steeped in controversy.


A 2011 report from the commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan estimated that defence contractors had wasted or lost to fraud as much as $60bn – or $12m a day – since 2001.

Private contractors have been involved in some of the most shocking events of the Iraq conflict – from the Nisour Square shootings in 2007 in which Blackwater security guards killed 17 Iraqis, to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

While the era of easy money may have ended for these contractors, that does not mean the boom times are over.

In 2011, the state department estimated that it would pay $3bn over the next five years on its private security contracts to protect its massive embassy complex in Baghdad alone.

Meanwhile, contractors are winning new business as oil companies ramp up their operations, especially around areas such as Basra in the south.

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其他人，包括那些忙着舔COWBOY 鞋的有色人种，和红印第安人的命一样不值钱。
那些觉得COWBOY 打仗是为了正义什么的， 对不起， 你自作多情了。