?Iraq For Sale? screening: St, Pete Main Library, Wed. Oct. 11, 7:00 PM

When: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 7:00 PM

Where: St. Petersburg Main Library
3745 9th Avenue North St. Petersburg, FL
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724.


The Bush administration's approach to Iraq reconstruction is about the same as its approach to everything else ? greed, cronyism and corruption.
Now, an important new documentary reveals more about the waste, war profiteering and lives wrecked by corporations and this administration in our name. Iraq for Sale, directed by Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered), reveals the impact of this criminal and moral corruption on the lives of soldiers, whistleblowers, survivors and ordinary Americans back home.
Greenwald's film exposes the long-time personal connections between this administration and the profiteers and investigates Blackwater Security Consulting, Halliburton subsidiary, KBR, and CACI International, finding such travesties as truck drivers ? told they would be kept out of harm's way ? forced to drive into battle zones unprotected; mercenaries used for combat operations and interrogations and soldiers training civilians to, ultimately, outsource their own jobs at much higher salaries so that friends of the administration can rake in obscene profits.
Only a complicit Republican majority stands in the way of real investigations with teeth. That might change come November in the House, Senate, or both. If the House goes Democratic, this administration will finally be held accountable and we can close one chapter in its corrupt history.



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