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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Directed by
Robert Greenwald
Produced by
Robert Greenwald
Sarah Feeley
Jim Gilliam
Devin Smith
Starring
Bud Conyers
Janis Karpinski
James Logsdon
Bill Peterson
Shane Ratliff
Edward Sanchez
Music by
Tree Adams
Cinematography
Nick Higgins
Editing by
Carla Gutierrez
Sally Rubin
Distributed by
Brave New Films
Release date(s)
2006
Running time
75 minutes
Country
U.S.A
Language
English
Budget
$368,000
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films about the ongoing Iraq War and the behavior of companies with no-bid contracts working in Iraq.
Specifically, the film claims four major contractors - Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan - are over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers and private citizens. The documentary contends these companies are composed of ex-military and ex-government workers who unethically help their companies get and keep enormous contracts and milk the American taxpayer.
Halliburton contends the film is "yet another rehash of inaccurate, recycled information."[1] During filming, Greenwald had requested interviews with the contractors, but they turned him down.
Contents
1 Production
2 Synopsis
3 Participants
4 References
5 External links
[edit] Production
This was the first film to raise substantial production funds from small donations online: $267,892 from 3,000 people in 10 days.[2]
[edit] Synopsis
The film starts with a look at Blackwater contractors Scott Helveston and Jerry Zovko, who were killed in an ambush in Falujah due to company cost-cutting exercises. The film moves on to look at the involvement of poorly supervised private interrogators and untrained translators from CACI and Titan in the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. The loss of traditional military jobs, particularly in logistics, to private contractor KBR/Halliburton, who put workers like Tony Johnson and Steve Hullet in danger is analysed by the filmmakers, as is the costplus arrangement which encourages private contractors to overspend and overcharge for their services to ensure greater profits. Another major theme which reoccurs throughout the film is that of Corporations legally buying influence, through campaign contributions and a network of connections, at the highest levels of government which allows them to be rewarded sole-source contract without bidding and to cover-up their own failures.
[edit] Participants
Katy Helveston-Wettengel - Mother of Scott Helveston
Donna & Jozo Zovko - Parents of Jerry Zovko
Tom Zovko - Brother of Jerry Zovko
Chris Lehane - Crisis Communication Expert
Anthony Lagouranis - Military Interrogator, Abu Ghraib
Janis Karpinski - Former Brigadier General, Abu Ghraib
Shereef Akeel - Civil Rights Attorney
Hassan Al-Azzawi - Abu Ghraib Detainee
Pratap Chatterjee - Executive Director, CorpWatch
Al Haj Ali - Abu Ghraib Detainee
Mark Benjamin - Journalist, Salon.com
Joshua Casteel - Military Interrogator, Abu Ghraib
Marwan Mawiri - Titan Linguist, Kirkuk Airbase, Iraq
Alan Grayson - Grayson and Kubli, P.C.
Massie Ritsch - Center for Responsive Politics
Aidan Delgado - SPC, Army Reserve, Nasiriyah & Abu Ghraib
Doug Brooks - President, IPOA
David Mann - SPC, US Army
Geoff Millard - SGT, Army National Guard
Ed Sanchez - KBR/Halliburton Former Truck Driver
Kim & April Johnson - Family of Tony Johnson
Hollie Hullet - Wife of Steve Hullet
Bill Peterson - KBR/Halliburton Former Truck Driver
Scott Allen - Cruse, Scott, Henderson & Allen, LLP
Keith Ashdown - Taxpayers for Common Sense
Ralph Peters - Lieutenant Colonel (Ret)
Bunnatine Greenhouse - Former Chief Contracting Officer, USACE
Ben Carter - KBR/Halliburton Former Water Purification Specialist
Shane Ratliff - KBR/Halliburton Former Truck Driver
Marie de Young - KBR/Halliburton Former Contract Administrator
Stewart Scott - KBR/Halliburton Former Labor Foreman
James Logsdon - KBR/Halliburton Former Truck Driver
Bud Conyers - KBR/Halliburton Former Truck Driver
Kelly Dougherty - SGT, Colorado Army National Guard
Harry Bunting - KBR/Halliburton Former Procurement Specialist
Jim Donahue - Halliburton Watch
Charles Lewis - Fund for Independence in Journalism
Chris Farrell - Judicial Watch
Charlie Cray - Center for Corporate Policy
[edit] References
^ Dan Harris, ""Documentary slams U.S. companies working in Iraq", ABC News, September 4, 2006 (accessed November 16, 2006)
^ William Booth, "His fans greenlight the project", Washington Post, August 20, 2006
[edit] External links
Official website
Official Brave New Films website
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers at the Internet Movie Database
L.A. Times review, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2006
Being There Magazine review, Being There Magazine
"Iraq For Sale: documentary about profiteering contractors", Boing Boing, September 24, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle review, San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 2006
New York Times review, New York Times, September 9, 2006
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Films directed by Robert Greenwald
1980s
Xanadu (1980)
In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
The Burning Bed (1984)
Shattered Spirits (1986)
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
1990s
Hear No Evil (1993)
Breaking Up (1997)
2000s
Steal This Movie! (2000)
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004)
Outfoxed (2004)
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
Rethink Afghanistan (2009)
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