The US Vice President Dick Cheney has told Virginia Republicans that withdrawing US troops from Iraq would be an act of betrayal

One has to wonder against whom Cheney would characterize a withdrawal from Iraq a "betrayal"; Haliburton?
Kellogg, Brown & Root?

Dyncorp?

Or perhaps Blackwater?

All these companies have received no-bid contracts, and have been raking in money hand over fist from the privatization of our military infrastructure.

In terms of betraying the Iraqi people, we have already done that, thank you Mr. Vice-President.

We went to war in Iraq on a pack of lies, destroyed their infrastructure, and have poisoned many of them with exposure to depleted uranium, which causes all kinds of cancers and terrible malformations of their kids.

We have also exposed our troops to this same kind of deadly poison, causing the same damages to our troops and their children.

And I'll tell you what the true betrayal of our vets has been, sir: the absolute impossibility of them getting precisely the same standard of care you get .

Of course, in your world, that won't happen, because our vets are expendable, but not the profits of US (now off-shored) mercenary companies.

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