I jacked this from Lew's Blog (which I highly recommend).

Some people do profit from war, but it's not you or me and it's at the expense of everybody else.

Nice Work if You Can Get It

Posted by Charles Featherstone at 02:57 PM

It's good to see that some troughs are constantly kept brimming with slops:

U.S. Army gives $5 billion more work to Halliburton
By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has signed on Halliburton to do nearly $5 billion in new work in Iraq under a giant logistics contract that has so far earned the Texas-based firm $9.1 billion, the Army said on Wednesday.