Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 1, 2006

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

78%

Original Title

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Director

Robert Greenwald

Description

Documentary portraying the actions of U.S. corporate contractors in the U.S.-Iraq war. Interviews with employees and former employees of such companies as Halliburton, CACI, and KBR suggest that government cronyism is behind apparent "sweetheart" deals that give such contractors enormous freedom to profit from supplying support and material to American troops while providing little oversight. Survivors of employees who were killed discuss the claim that the companies cared more for profit than for the welfare of their own workers, and soldiers indicate that the quality of services provided is sub-standard and severely in contradiction to the comparatively huge profits being generated. Also depicted are the unsuccessful attempts by the filmmakers to get company spokesmen to respond to the charges made by the interviewees.