Memorial Day 2010

This weekend as we pause for a moment to remember the brave troops who died for our nation, let's also remember who made these wars possible.  Here is a partial list:

CACI- Interpreters and interrogation - Abu Grhraib, etc.
Halliburton - construction military bases, oil field, infrastructure

Titan Same as CACI   - worth $1B

Bechtel - Construction and engineering 

Aegis Defense Services - police

Custer Battles - first war contractor found guilty of fraud.
KBR

General Dynamics - tank shells, Stryker vehicles, bullets, etc.

Nour USA Ltd.  Pipelines

Chevron,

Exxon Mobil

Veritas Capital Fund/DynCorp - train Iraqi police

Washington Group International - build schools, water works, utilities

Environmental Chemical - clean up battlefield

Aegis -  Private security

International American Products - provide electrical services

Erinys - protecting Iraq’s oil reserves

Fluor - water sewage

Perini - Environmental cleanup (run by Dianne Feinstein’s husband)

URS - environmental cleanup (also run by Dianne Feinstein’s husband)

Parsons - Tesla Motors - reconstruction and construction of buildings

First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contraction - 

Armor Holdings - Armor for military vehicles.

L3 Communications - training Iraqi law enforcement personnel

AM General - Extra wide ATVs

Cummins - power generators

MerchantBridge - telecommunications

GlobalRisk Strategies - Risk management - insurance - humanitarian aid.

Lockheed-Martin,

Northrop Grumman,

ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC

More than half of the American defense budget now goes to these companies.  It is in their best interests to have war.  The more wars we have the more money they make.   They NEED war.  They also conveniently fall outside most of the judicial requirements of the laws of our nation, the nation they are housed in, and the nation they are engaged in.  They are not bound by any constitution, law, sovereign, church or any rule of law.  Their only obligation is to maximize their own profit.

Let's remember these guys this Memorial Day.  They even take care of those graveyards we will see on TV.