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Originally posted by 125shifter
I just watched "Iraq for Sale:"

Scary stuff on how US corporations are profitting from the war.

For example Haliburton charging $45 for a 6-pack of Coke, $99 to do a crappy job of washing a bag of laundry, $7,000 a month to lease an SUV!!!!

All these stories are making us look like saints in Vietnam.
You very wrongly assume that the only cost in that six-pack of Coke is the cost of the six-pack itself.

1) What if every 10th six-pack gets blown up in the supply convoy?

2) You do have to pay people more than minimum wage to get them to go to a war zone to work.

3) What is the cost of moving that pack of Coke from a loading dock in Texas to Iraq?
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