Nobody seemed to take notice in 2005 or 2006 when soldiers were reporting that KBR was charging the government $18 a plate, so that if a soldier took his food back to his housing unit, and took a second paper plate to cover the food so it wouldn't get sand on it, the government was being charged $36 for that soldier's meal.

Nobody seemed to care that soldiers were reporting that KBR was charging the government $100 a case for soda. Most people dismissed it saying "yeah, but it's expensive to ship all that soda from the US and convoy it into Iraq" and then just fell silent when told "but they're buying the soda from a local Iraqi bottler, for about what a grocery store in the US buys soda for, and charging the government $100 for a case.

Nobody seemed to care that a documentary in 2006 or 2007 showed a compound in Kuwait where KBR and Halliburton secretaries living in trailers 300 feet from the offices they worked in, each had brand new SUVs even though they never left the compound and were ferried to the airport by military convoy. Since they were all operating on "cost-plus" contracts, it made sense to KBR and Halliburton to buy top-of-the-line SUVs at $50k+ each for every person they had in country, even if they were never even sat in or the engines never even started.

Or all the stories of empty trucks on convoys, or how they would take the oil filters off of trucks so the engines would burn up and they could charge the government for yet another truck. Or how they would blow up a truck if it got a flat tire, and charge the govt, etc.

How about the water purification contracts where they just pumped euphrates river water into camps and didn't even bother to at least put some chlorine or anything in it?

Or how about this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b9b_1227815237

Why would anyone care about this, if they didn't care about all the other blatant examples of war-profiteering?