Iraq War Inc. (please see the link)?

The American people aresuffering deprivations because of the war. The Iraqi people are living in a failed state because of the war. The rest of the world is on the brink of Armageddon because of the war.

Well I guess it is good to know that someone benefitted from it.

Someone other than the Bush family oil refinery that is

Manda, yes, name me one company that can do a base from Nuts to Bolts? The only other ones out there are DynCorp, and if they came in you would complain about them as well. YES, your right, Haliburton/KBR has abused a lot of the contracts they have and many of the guys on the bases that work for them still act like Union Boos in a combat zone with what they will and won't do, it is terrible but overall, they do a good job and there is only one other company that can do what they can do that is an American run company. We did not go to Iraq for any conspiracy, Dick Cheney is not the Demon Lord you make him out to be and while the company has not always acted in the best intrest of anyone but it's share holders it does not mean that we went into Iraq for it.

The Investor's Business Daily editorial board asked, "What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq."

London's Sunday Times called it "the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror." A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.

The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.

We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.

Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.

Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.

Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.

Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved "satisfactory" progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks, a big change for the better from a year ago.

Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates, which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.

But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, "the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks" that signaled political progress.

The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.

I cant answer for Americans but i know what you are saying,i watched an hour or so on the box on this same subject recently and was amazed at the money made by GWB,and his cronies. It appeared the contracts were given out without bids being taken and the profits were a percentage of the total costs so the more money Halliburton spent the more they made and no estimates were asked for,it was an bottomless chest of money and the American public paid for it. Once more the public are treated like sheep,the powers at be dont think we are capable of seeing this,the good thing is GWB.wont be around much longer and hopefully all this will come out someday. Im not a yank,thank god.

Haliburton does not manage the soldiers.

Can you name one other company that can do the work that Haliburton does?

My dear they are all a bunch of "MUGS"

AND THEY WILL BE THE CAUSE OF THE DOWN FALL OF AMERICA.