Halliburton/KBR, Blackwater, and the rest of the U.S. war profiteers continue to rape, murder, and generally pillage throughout Iraq and Afghanistan with impunity, while raking in huge profits (paid for by our tax dollars) for doing so.
So actor John Cusack is working on a new movie, War, Inc., set in a fictional Iraq-like country, about a military contracting company run amok. While the movie supposedly takes the issue to the absurd, sometimes that's just the kind of wake-up call the American people need.
And with an all-star cast including Cusack, his sister Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Hilary Duff, and Marisa Tomei, perhaps the movie will prompt the average American to start thinking about the issue and the slippery slope that the status quo could possibly lead to if left unchecked.
I guess it will be a commercialized and glamorized version of Robert Greenwald's disturbing but excellent 2006 film Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.
In the meantime, I offer you the latest animation by political cartoonist Mark Fiore: Blackwater Business School
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