How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration

by Hartung, William D

• ISBN13: 9781560255611
• ISBN10: 1560255617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-26
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

When the Pentagon proposed leasing a fleet of Boeing 747s as military transports -- at a cost of $26 billion -- Senator John McCain complained, "This is war profiteering." But since September 11, Boeing has been quite brazen about this sort of thing. As Harry Stonecipher, a VP at Boeing said, "The purse is now open, and any member of Congress who is seen as trying to stop us from spending the money we need to defend the country will be looking for a job after next November." Welcome to George W. Bush's Washington, where you can't tell the generals from the arms lobbyists without a scorecard. U.S. policy is now based on what's good for Chevron, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Bechtel, not what's good for the average citizen. Dick Cheney's ties to arms and oil conglomerate Halliburton are just the tip of the iceberg: at least 32 top officials in the Bush administration served as executives or paid consultants to top weapons contractors before joining the administration. How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy? is an irreverent, impertinent, and scary tour of the arms industry, its defense intellectuals, and its pals in the White House and Pentagon. Book jacket.

Author Biography

William D. Hartung runs the Arms Trade Resource Center, a project of the World Policy Institute. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation and has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, 60 Minutes, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, Hannity and Colmes, the Lou Dobbs Show, the Lehrer Newshour and BBC World

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The 2000 Presidential Elections--Returning to the Scene of the Crime	p. 1
Dick Cheney and the Power of the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone	p. 23
Donald Rumsfeld and the Princes of Darkness	p. 45
The Carlyle Group: Crony Capitalism without Borders	p. 63
The Defense Policy Board: Richard Perle and His Merry Band of Profiteers	p. 79
Policy Profiteers: The Role of Right-Wing Think Tanks in Shaping Bush's Foreign Policy	p. 91
How the Big Three Weapons-Makers Are Cashing In on the War on Terrorism	p. 119
Taking Our Country Back: A Question of Balance	p. 147
Acknowledgments	p. 173
Index	p. 179
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