Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
| 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 |
| Cinematography | Nick Higgins |
| Edited by | Carla Gutierrez Sally Rubin |
| Music by | Tree Adams |
| Distributed by | Brave New Films |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. Produced while the Iraq War was in full swing, the film deals with the alleged war profiteering and negligence of private contractors and consultants who went to Iraq as part of the US war effort.
Specifically, the film claims four major contractors – Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan – were over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and their own employees. These corporations were tasked with "virtually everything except the actual killing," including food, laundry, housing, security, intelligence gathering and interrogation.