Matt Ortega over at firedoglake has written an excellent post summarizing Senator Patrick Leahy’s Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007.
The act, introduced on Thursday by Leahy, is designed to stop profiteering and enable the prosecution of companies (like Bechtel and Halliburton et al) that have engaged in massive fraud and war profiteering in Iraq and elsewhere. Legislation like this has been brought before but failed under the last congress even though examples of profiteering by Halliburton and others were openly known and discussed.
Those same initiatives also went no where despite the fact that failed infrastructure projects (including water and power outages that last several hours throughout the day in major Iraqi cities) have contributed to the civil unrest and hence, the body count, in Iraq.
There are countless contracts and contractors in Iraq that have driven up the cost of the war, endangered the lives of soldiers and Iraqi civilians, and fleeced the American people –all in the name of the almighty dollar.
There’s no excuse for the kind of greed that costs lives, limbs, and rapes the American taxpayer. Hopefully, when this passes we’ll see justice come to some of these companies.
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