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Re:Who cleans up after war? by madengr on Thursday December 03, 2015 @07:16PM (#10673748)
The cleanup contracts probably go to the same ones who profit from the war to begin with.
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Re:Who cleans up after war? by RooBadley on Friday December 04, 2015 @03:37AM (#10675272)
Haliburton comes to mind, their subsidiary, KBR (Cheney's old haunt) made 39.5 billion USD on Iraq War v2.0. Fluor, a Texas based engineering firm, made 1.5 billion USD on logistics and reconstruction.

Security (Dyncorp 4.1 billion USD), transport (Combat Support Associates 3.8 billion USD), and food services (Agility 7.4 billion USD), were all needed for the above operations.

138 billion USD went to private contractors during and after the war in Iraq.

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