Reply #1: Gee, why do you think we aren't just paying the Iraqis... [View All]

...to rebuild their own country, rather than outsourcing the job to K&R, who then charge ten times as much, and hire and import labor from other nations that they pay half as much. The profit margins on this war are ASTRONOMICAL... Using Iraqi labor (and thus driving down unemployment, which stands at about 60% of the young Iraqi male population (coincidentally, the largest demographic in the insurgency) to build a house might cost let's say $10,000. But instead we pay K&R $50,000 to build the same house, and they outsource the actual construction to Indians and Kuwaitis and Indonesians and pay them $4,000 to do the job. More money for Bush's freinds and family. Hey, he's "creating jobs"...