| Merchants of Death — A List These are the 18 most prominent profiteers that the Bush administration has unleashed on Iraq.
For more details of these companies, see “The Corporate Invasion of Iraq: Profile of U.S. Corporations Awarded Contracts in U.S./British-Occupied Iraq,” compiled by U.S. Labor Against the War. Click here to download a PDF of this document. Corporations also collaborate with the military in another way, inducing young people to wage war through a program called "PaYS" (Partnership for Youth Success). The military promises their recruits a job opening with certain corporations after their military service - providing that they don't fall victim to "stop loss" military retention for years and years, and providing, of course, that they're not killed or maimed in action. For a list of these companies, see: www.armypays.com/corplogos.htm The Center for Public Integrity has issued a report with a list of the campaign contributions of contractors of post-war contractors (1990 to 2002). They also list the following companies at the “ten worst war Profiteers of 2004”:
For more details on the campaign contributions and these companies, click here to download a Word document file. *For the weapons produced
by ATK, see www.circlevision.org/alliantaction/atk/scoop/scoopindex.html
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