Why We Fight Page #5

I'd rather really be helping Santa make

toys is what I'd really rather be doing.

We're trying connect our people

with the actual guy in the field,

in the plane, some of them are

their sons or their daughters.

Is your son is reservist?

Yes, he is reservist with the 6/52, engineer.

Sometimes I'm okay, another

times I can cry a river.

You wrap the flag around every weapon system,

every weapon system is

supposed to be for the troops.

Give the soldier the tools they need.

But it ends up becoming a product competition.

If you had the same car year

after year, if industry...

didn't change the car at all,

would you buy a different car?

No. But when they come up with something

that's got extra bells and whistles...

... and it suits what you need it to do,

then you'll buy more.

If you look at the weapons that were buying,

new aircraft carriers, new

submarines, F22 fighters.

You know for an attack, that

if FBI estimates probably...

cost of Al-Qaeda or Osama,

We are now spending more

than we did at the peak of Vietnam.

A lot of what's going on is

simply because people don't...

understand the larger architecture

of how the Pentagon operates.

Mister Chairman and distinguished

members of the committee,...

I am the US Air force programme

manager for the Boeing company.

Let's use the example of buying a weapon

like a new fighter plane for the Air Force.

The action usually starts in the Pentagon,

maybe at the contractors initiatives.

But essentially, everybody's working together.

The KC-7678 can carry up to 190 troops.

Basically what you do is you come

in and you lowball the initial estimate.

The actual venue cost is

about half that estimate.

You over promise what it's gonna do and you...

underestimate the kind of

burns it's gonna impose.

We separately met with the companies

and both proposals are very good

Once the Air Force buys off on

it, then you start flooding...

money to as many congressional

districts as possible...

... as quickly as possible.

The B2 bomber has a piece that

is made in every single state.

To make sure that if you ever

try to face that project out...

... you will get howls from among

the most liberal Members of Congress.

I believe in this military, I am urging

the Senator support this bill,

Well I just want to thank the

Chairman for working with me...

... and aiding a hundred million dollars

to upgrade 10 aditional B1 bombers.

And that B1 has been a great asset

for the projection of power.

The F35 joined strike fighter, the FH22 raptor.

Because the military industral

complex has not two legs...

it's three. It's a military

and the industry and Congress.

For a Congressman defence spending means jobs.

These are manufactured in my

district, in Indiana by...

Losing hundred defence jobs in his

district could mean five hundred votes.

It's not just a hundred workers,

it's the their spouses, their children.

It's the representative's duty

to bring home the bacon.

I am also greatful for the work that

the health arms services commitee

has done to fully fund the

FH22 programme this year.

God bless our contractors.

It is our conclusion that

a Lockheed Martin team...

is the winner of the joined

strike fighter programme.

We have a snapshot in time after September 11th,

where at least 71 companies...

... that we're able to identify were starting to

get contracts to go in Afghanistan and Iraq.

All of the top 10 companies

had former US officials, who...

had worked in the Pentagon or

other parts of US government...

.. on the board as directors

or as their top executives.

It's known as a revolving door

and people cashing all the time.

Public officials go to work for companies

and they make triple, quadruple, ten times...

... sometimes as much money as

they used to make in public service.

There's too close relationship

and there's outright.

I hate to use the word 'corruption'...

... but it borders on it.

The behaviour of some...

of these individuals both in

industry and in the Pentagon.

The number one recipient of contracts was vice

president Chaney's former company Halliburton...

... and subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root.

KBR:

We're the army's contractor on the battlefield.

Currently 65 thousand KBR people

around the world, assisting the troops.

You know the military industrial

complex isn't just the...

people in the Pentagon and

people, producing the weapons.

It's now increasingly got a

very large service sector.

Ham and eggs.

Things that troops used to do by peel potatoes

and do laundry we now have contractors doing.

Somebody has to do this work.

And the Halliburton thing is just an outrageous

effort to associate the vice president with...

... the activities of a company with which

he has no connection, no connection at all.

Congressional critics are questioning whether

Dick Chaney held Halliburton to get billions...

The FBI has revealed, it is expanding its

investigation into how Halliburton company

built tax payers for its contract in Iraq.

And it now appears some of

those contracts were rewarded...

with a knowledge and approval

of vice president's office.

Which would seem to contradict

his previous statements.

As vice president I have absolutely

no influence of involvement...

of knowledge in any way

sharing perform of contracts.

We did a report that took 2,5

years, 600,000 dollars, 33 people,

including ten investigate

reporters on 6 continents,...

...looking at private military companies and

outsourcing war all over the world.

And we noticed that in 1992 there was a contract

of 9 million dollars, giving out to a company...

... Kellogg Brown and Root,

to study the idea should the

Pentagon start using the private

sector to do some of the...

... support type functions

like food service, latrine...

duty, but even maybe some

military things as well.

And the Secretary of

Defense at that time was one

Dick Chaney. So Chaney goes the contract out.

Kellogg Brown and Root comes back

and says 'This is a terrific idea'.

For the next ten years they get 7 or

I ran Halliburton and I'm

proud of Halliburton's...

This company brought in a

Rollerdeck's guy, a former

US Congressman Defense Secretary

Chief of Staff to President

to make sure that he could get doors opened...

not only in Washington but in

capitals all over the world.

And yes, he becomes

personally wealthy from that.

No question about it.

Isn't that worth when from

million dollars or less...

to 60 or 70 million dollars

that he spend in five years.

Are you ready to take the oath?

I am.

Please raise your right

hand and repeat after me.

So we've elected a government

contractor as vice president.

This could be Indonesia, it sounds like Russia,

Nigeria, no it's the United States of America.

And everything I just said is entirely legal.

And it is our system of legal corruption.

If I am sure of anything I'm sure of this.

Vice president Chaney had nothing to do with

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