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The reconstruction racket: to understand the murderous mess Iraq has become, it's necessary to examine the festival of corporate and internationalist corruption known as the "reconstruction.".(IRAQ)(Custer Battles' contract)
Perhaps the first question that should be asked is this: how could a company with the name "Custer Battles" win a contract to provide security in a war zone, much less be given a role in training Iraq's military and security forces?
Custer Battles takes its morale-sapping name from its co-founders, former Army officers Scott Custer and Michael Battles. The latter, a 2002 Republican congressional candidate in Rhode Island, was described by Custer as "very active in the Republican Party ... [someone who] speaks to individuals he knows in the White House almost daily." Shortly after the "liberation" of Iraq in 2003, the company--which was little more than a ...
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