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Documentary: "Iraq For Sale"

Unread postby KhanCEO » Mon 02 Oct 2006, 01:03:51

Honestly, I would pay to see this movie however, no theatre is showing this movie in my area. Enjoy. Thank you google video =)

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Re: Iraq For Sale:movie

Unread postby Zardoz » Mon 02 Oct 2006, 01:14:58

"Not available" at the moment. I've bookmarked it, though, and I'll keep trying.

Here's the web site for it:

http://iraqforsale.org/about.php
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Re: Iraq For Sale:movie

Unread postby loopy » Mon 02 Oct 2006, 13:43:48

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Documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Unread postby Mesuge » Mon 09 Oct 2006, 18:11:18

"Regardless of the war, the administration, or the various sophistries for expending human lives as a matter of government policy, profiteering from it universally offends all citizens, whether they are Republicans, Democrats, Independents, other parties or no shows." Read more →Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity

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New documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is out:

by the director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered)

http://iraqforsale.org/


PS: the official website links a lot msm interviews with the director as well as lot of short videos from the movie.

Interestingly, these shorts feature his very hot production assistants, so in this sense it's a lefty conspiracy to smooth the message by seductive content 8O
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Re: Documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Unread postby Kristen » Tue 10 Oct 2006, 00:18:35

Surprise! I wouldn't be surprised if our military equitment was made in a foreign country either. anything to make the rich more powerful. When are we going to stand up to this corporate slavery. Civil war 2 anyone?
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Re: Documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Unread postby NEOPO » Tue 10 Oct 2006, 00:34:07

You start it and we will all join in ;-)
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New Film: Iraq for Sale

Unread postby Lokutus » Thu 19 Oct 2006, 14:18:21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZargEUffzg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hnvw9G4fM

"In the old days we used to run war profiteers out of town, now they control the town."

http://iraqforsale.org/
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Re: New Film: Iraq for Sale

Unread postby Lokutus » Fri 20 Oct 2006, 02:28:16

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Re: New Film: Iraq for Sale

Unread postby Lokutus » Fri 20 Oct 2006, 03:06:36

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Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers

Unread postby Bas » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 14:56:11

Iraq for Sale

Anyone know more about this documentary?
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby threadbear » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 16:07:38

You didn't know about this? God, people wonder why I'm a "conspiracy theorist" Sheeesh. I couldn't make this stuff up. Everything is going corporate in the US-- the military, everything. Your tax dollars, at work. It's theft.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby ONeil » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 16:44:55

Thanks to the incredibly disruptive internet; you can see this video right now, from the comfort of your own home.

Iraq for Sale the War Profiteers
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby KhanCEO » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 17:18:49

The United States Congress is a joke.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby MattSavinar » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 17:36:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ONeil', 'T')hanks to the incredibly disruptive internet; you can see this video right now, from the comfort of your own home.

Iraq for Sale the War Profiteers


Oneil,

Filmmakers go out on a limb, spend their own money taking on some VERY scary people like Blackwater and you help steal revenue from them by posting links to pirated versions of theirw work.

Way to go buddy.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby davep » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 17:49:56

Here's another one



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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby ONeil » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 21:11:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ONeil', 'T')hanks to the incredibly disruptive internet; you can see this video right now, from the comfort of your own home.

Iraq for Sale the War Profiteers


Oneil,

Filmmakers go out on a limb, spend their own money taking on some VERY scary people like Blackwater and you help steal revenue from them by posting links to pirated versions of theirw work.

Way to go buddy.


If you think it's about the money I think you've missed the boat Matt. The objective is to educate as many people as quickly as possible and if the copyright holders didn't agree with that statement then they can ask google to remove the content. Google has been very responsive to this type of request in the past.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby TheDude » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 06:05:45

From bullnotbull.blogspot.com

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rogressive film director Robert Greenwald was scheduled to testify at a hearing on Thursday, May 10 about war profiteering. He requested to show a few minutes of one of his films - Iraq for Sale - but Republicans blocked his request. Above is what Congress won’t see.

Get the whole story: IraqForSale.org


By Robert Greenwald,who's not a nickels+dimes man on the street type:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')reenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. Greenwald has been honored for his activism by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California; the L.A. chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Physicians for Social Responsibility; New Roads School, Consumer Attorney’s Association of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and the Office of the Americas. He is a co-founder (with Mike Farrell) of "Artists United," a group of actors and others opposed to the war in Iraq, which continues to work toward publicizing progressive causes. Greenwald has lectured at Harvard University for the Nieman Fellows Foundation for Journalism and speaks frequently across the country about his work.

Since May 2005 has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.


Probably that last shot him down. And it's not like this would be news to Congress. Well, maybe, I heard a story the other day about the founder of AOL telling Karl Rove about visiting Iraq in late 2003, I think. Rove was wondering how many hugs/kisses/roses thrown his way/etc by the oh-so-grateful liberated. Utter delusion, in other words.

Also they had their little chat in, uh, Bohemian Grove.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby Bas » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 08:35:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'Y')ou didn't know about this? God, people wonder why I'm a "conspiracy theorist" Sheeesh. I couldn't make this stuff up. Everything is going corporate in the US-- the military, everything. Your tax dollars, at work. It's theft.


Well, threadbear, I knew there were private contractors at work for the army in Iraq, but I didn't and don't know the full scope of it.

Shannymarra; my mistake(about the banned part), I guess I jumped to conclusions. :oops:
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers

Unread postby halcyon » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 09:52:55

"Iraq for sale is good". I recommend it. It details the financial, economical, ethical and legal issues of using a huge number of DoD sub-contractors in Iraq.

A more detailed documentary on Blackwater and other "security companies" is the 2006 piece "Shadow company". I think it is even more damning of these gung-ho security companies overall.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Company-Sp ... B000J55YLQ

More opinions and data in "Blackwater: The Shadow War"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9379942402

All recommended, esp. the first two.

All of these remind me of this classic essay/book from 1935:

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/artic ... racket.htm

Recommended reading, esp. for those serving in the armed forces.
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Re: Iraq for Sale; the War Profiteers (Banned by Congress)

Unread postby threadbear » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 14:13:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'Y')ou didn't know about this? God, people wonder why I'm a "conspiracy theorist" Sheeesh. I couldn't make this stuff up. Everything is going corporate in the US-- the military, everything. Your tax dollars, at work. It's theft.


Well, threadbear, I knew there were private contractors at work for the army in Iraq, but I didn't and don't know the full scope of it.

Shannymarra; my mistake(about the banned part), I guess I jumped to conclusions. :oops:


I've been following the corporatization of the war effort, pretty much since the war began. I just feel despair. Look at the Dow 30. Can you spot one large corporation that isn't directly or indirectly tied in to the war effort? GE?. Their defence contracting arm is significant. The prison-industrial complex? They make uniforms, and other sundry items.

Go up and down the Dow 30 and you can see how the impetus for change isn't there from either neo-liberal or neo-conservative, regardless of strident voices of complaint. This is Wall Street Warfare. That doesn't include the private equity firms like Bechtel and Dyncorp where transparency is dim. It's a nightmare.
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