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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Robert Greenwald released in USA on 1 september 2006
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 september 2006
Length 1h15
Directed by Robert Greenwald
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Rating75%
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. Produced while the Iraq War was in full swing, the film deals with the alleged war profiteering and negligence of private contractors and consultants who went to Iraq as part of the US war effort.
Specifically, the film claims four major contractors - Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan - were over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and their own employees. These corporations were tasked with “virtually everything except the actual killing,” including food, laundry, housing, security, intelligence gathering and interrogation.
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The film starts with the events of March 2004 in Fallujah, where four Blackwater contractors were ambushed, set afire, their burned corpses dragged through the streets and then finally displayed hanging from a bridge. In interviews, two of the contractors’ families contend that Blackwater, in search of higher profit, neglected to provide proper support and protection to their employees, including maps, decent translators, an armored vehicle, and sufficient security personnel (their convoy was short a machine gunner). The families contend that with such support, their loved ones might be alive today.Comments
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