Medically Retired Soldier Concludes: "We Are Pawns " In Iraq

Meanwhile, the soldiers in his unit had to transport and protect workers of U.S. corporations who earned salaries three to five times higher working on engineering projects, such as building (and rebuilding) oil pipelines. For the first seven months of the year he was there, starting in April 2003, they had no armor for their vehicles. "If you don't think about being security for these massive corporations making big bucks being there, you're OK, but if you do, then you realize the entire military is being used and abused," Peskoff, a married 33-year-old father of two girls, told me. "This is not a Michael Moore conspiracy. It's not just Halliburton. Many U.S. companies are there to get the oil that's there." http://www.denverpost.com/style/ci_4037566

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