Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Directed byRobert Greenwald
Produced byRobert Greenwald
Sarah Feeley
Jim Gilliam
Devin Smith
StarringBud Conyers
Janis Karpinski
James Logsdon
Bill Peterson
Shane Ratliff
Edward Sanchez
CinematographyNick Higgins
Edited byCarla Gutierrez
Sally Rubin
Music byTree Adams
Distributed byBrave New Films
Release date
  • September 1, 2006 (2006-09-01)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary film made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. Produced while the Iraq War was in full swing, the film deals with the alleged war profiteering and negligence of private contractors and consultants who went to Iraq as part of the US war effort.[1]

Specifically, the film claims four major contractors - Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan [citation needed] - were over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and their own employees.[1] These corporations were tasked with “virtually everything except the actual killing,”[2] including food, laundry, housing, security, intelligence gathering and interrogation.[3]

  1. ^ a b Doctorow, Cory (24 September 2006). "Iraq For Sale: documentary about profiteering contractors". BoingBoing.
  2. ^ O’Hehir, Andrew (28 September 2006). "Beyond the Multiplex". Salon.
  3. ^ Fox, Ken (September 2006). "Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06.