Marines ensure supplies, growth of Iraqi economy

[Barrett808]

Marines ensure supplies, growth of Iraqi economy
by Lance Cpl. Joshua C. Cox
II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq -- It takes a lot of planning and coordination to ensure service members obtain the adequate living supplies and gear needed during a deployment. A small group of Marines based here are responsible for acquiring and distributing the essential gear and services needed at installations throughout Iraq.

The Marines of the Contingency Contracting Office aboard Camp Fallujah allocate funds to provide a variety of entities such as potable water, air conditioners, generators and the workers to transport and maintain the supplies here.

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Another primary mission of the CCO is to purchase local goods and employ Iraqis to provide services for the units, said Sgt. Dewan C. Britton, contingency contracting officer.

Employing the Iraqis gives their economy a chance to grow, and provides them with new jobs and growth.

"This will help build Iraq back up, which is what we are trying to do here," said Britton.

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http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/10_28/national_news/35940-1.html

[leveymg]

1. The only part of the Iraqi economy that's growing is the coffin industry

"This will help build Iraq back up, which is what we are trying to do here," said Britton.

I doubt whether many Marines believe this Public Affiars pisswater. I know the Iraqis don't.

[quaway]

2. you know what others think ?

[LynnTheDem]

4. Yes actually, we do know what most Iraqis think about this shit.

So will you if you listen to what the Iraqis say.

[Dirk39]

13. That's not true

drugs like heroin did enter the democratic free market society of liberated Iraq too, since the U.S. did liberate them and overthrow fashism to build up a paradise for the poor and have-nots.
Wherever the CIA and the Marines along with Bechtel and Halliburton operate, there's a drug paradise for sure.
What a coincidence.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[LynnTheDem]

3. "This will help build Iraq back up"...easier if ya hadn't destroyed it

in the first fucking place.

[Barrett808]

5. Oh, but there's so much more money to be made this way n/t

[VegasWolf]

6. "It takes a lot of planning and coordination to ensure service members

obtain this level of service," only Halliburton can do it!

[Roland99]

7. WTF are our Marines doing this shit for? They're fighting wars!

Not peacekeepers!

[msongs]

8. support the Iraqis? fire halliburton and let the locals do it all. n/t

[pfitz59]

9. There's a city of homeless people.......

wandering the streets of Seattle. All they seek is AFFORDABLE HOUSING and a LIVING WAGE! GOP war-profiteers are throwing money at Iraq, while starving home-grown Americans! GOP=TRAITOR!

[xxqqqzme]

10. '...Employing the Iraqis gives

their economy a chance to grow, and provides them with new jobs and growth...'

employing them 2 do what? shine your boots? wash your clothes? clean your barracks? Yea, that ought 2 get that Iraqi economy going in no time.

[Ilsa]

11. Yeah, they showed some pics of that booming economy on CNN

tonight. Photos of lovely cafes (al fresco) pre-US invasion to bombed-out, blown-out, crumbling barbed-ware street corners (same place).

How can they have a booming economy if they can't even get electricity and clean water to everyone?

[VegasWolf]

12. Look at the source of this 'article". It will tell you everything you need

to know.