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Do We Wage War on the Cheap?

I think that's a really important thing to remember and distress when trying to figure out who benefited from the dismantling of Iraq, or indeed any country like this. Even within the Bush administration, there were rivals and certain cells against each other, ostensibly on the same mission. At the end of the day, these are all basically playing on the same team against Iraq as the as the alien versus predator movie said, whoever wins, we lose. It was incredibly expensive to outsource the whole thing to for profit companies. There was so much waste in it. So, it wasn't cheap. They treated the government like their personal ATM. When it came to the shareholders of these companies, you know

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