Why would someone send their son to die for Bush's campaign contributors?

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http://www.opensecrets.org/news/rebuilding_iraq/index.asp

Rebuilding Iraq -- The Contractors

Even before the war in Iraq began March 20, the Bush administration was considering plans to help rebuild the country after fighting ceased. According to news reports in early March, the U.S. Agency for International Development secretly asked six U.S. companies to submit bids for a $900 million government contract to repair and reconstruct water systems, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals in Iraq.

The six companies -- Bechtel Group Inc., Fluor Corp., Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, Louis Berger Group Inc., Parsons Corp. and Washington Group International Inc. -- contributed a combined $3.6 million in individual, PAC and soft money donations between 1999 and 2002, the Center reported on its news site, CapitalEye.org. Sixty-six percent of that total went to Republicans.

The bidding process has been criticized for including only a handful of companies, some with substantial political clout and none of which is based outside the United States. USAID officials said the recent invitations to bid on reconstruction contracts went to U.S. corporations for security reasons, and that foreign companies may compete for subcontracting work, Bloomberg News reports.

As the winners* of this and other contracts to rebuild Iraq are announced, we will post their campaign contributions -- large or small -- below. (Figures represent total contributions made between 1999 and 2002, and include PAC, soft money and individual contributions to federal candidates, party committees and leadership PACs.^)

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1. Halliburton only $17K to Bush?

That seems lite...

[JackSwift]

2. The war booty is the opportunity to raid the US treasury

which is a much bigger prize than the Iraqi treasury

[L.A.dweller]

3. As someone who has a brother

in the military I find the subject line of this post to be offensive. Mothers and fathers are not the ones who are sending their sons and daughters to Iraq or any other country overseas. Military personnel are following the orders of those in command.