Privatization and Conflict: The Economics of the Iraq War

Normal service to be resumed soon.  In the meantime, Daniel and Jack continue their series on movies about the presidency by considering Oliver Stone's baffling 2008 movie W., an aggressively irrelevant and annoyingly whimsical dramady biopic of blood-soaked war criminal George W. Bush.  The movie stars Josh Brolin as the charming mass murderer, and a host of respected American actors doing impressions of neocon profiteer warmongers in what looks weirdly like a bloated SNL sketch.  Both your hosts find their dusty old rage about the 'War on Terror' (and the myriad other vicious and authoritarian horrors of the Bush administration) suddenly reawakened.

Links to clips included:

Naomi Klein on the Iraq invasion as an orgy of privatisation: Naomi Klein on C-Span: Triple Privatization in the Iraq War

Greg Palast on the Republican conspiracy to rig the 2000 for Bush in Florida: The 2000 Election

Vice on corporate profits from the Iraq invasion: Was the War in Iraq All About Profit? | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE

Brown University report on the death toll of the Bush wars: Costs of War: the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars

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