The lies and corruption uncovered by this film is shocking, and sickening. How can this be? How can this possibly happen inside a country that is allegedly fighting for freedom? This is not a democracy, nor is it anywhere near freedom.

The next question we should be asking ourselves is this: What are we going to DO about this issue? How are we going to put an end to the ever-increasing decadence that looms over each and every one of us, not just in America, but the entire world?

What disturbs me most is the fact that our children, and our youth of today, have little or no concept of the corruption occurring in our country. This is both dangerous and destructive to our children's ability to fight against what is happening.

For those of you who have children: I offer a possibility. Teach them yourselves about the hate, and greed, that affects us so drastically. Teach your child that corporate power is severely unbalanced and taken advantage of often. Teach your child that this happens because not enough people are fighting against it.

Teach your child to FIGHT against corporate power... This is something that the educational system will not teach our children. The educational structure, which is mandatory for all children ages 5/7 - 18, is mostly government-controlled. It is not likely that the government will support an anti-corruption lesson plan!

So, please, for the sake of human rights, be a mentor to your children. Stay active in their lives, encourage independent thought, and teach them what they need to know.

Having read the first few comments here I would like to say how predictable it would be that a documentary such as this one would attract the attention of the name callers who clearly want to defend the accused, but have no way of refuting first-hand accounts and publicly available documentation. As a Brit I do not have as much emotional attachment to this as the Americans do, but it is obvious that there ARE people who have made millions (dare I say - billions) profiting from death on a huge scale, concerned only with the personal accumulation of wealth. Maybe this is a natural consequence of a capitalist system, but such a clear interconnection of corporations and the government as we see in modern day America can only be called Fascism (I'm talking "classical" Fascism here, not the new brand of "Islamo-fascists" the talking heads and newspapers speak of).

That "those who fail to learn history are comdemned to repeat their mistakes" is something that every person-who-would-be-free must realise. Research how Hitler managed to gain control of Germany in the years before WW2 and compare those events to today's America. The "Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)" that suspended habeas corpus, as did the Military Comissions Act 2006. The "Enabling Act" of 1933 helped the Nazis alter the German constitution, as the oxymoronically named "Patriot Act" did for the current US Administration.

Thanks to the fear of this "Al Qaida" I keep hearing about people are going along with this. Again I advise a bit of research - go and find out how that organization began. I'll say no more on as I seem to have wandered off topic. Just go and look and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I'd like to finish by saying it's good to have another "essential" to add to my Wake Up Kit, which now consists of "Outfoxed", "Terrorstorm", "America: Freedom to Fascism" and now "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers".

Yet another piece of the puzzle falls into place.

I don't often read blogs. Somehow, I was compelled to read this thread all the way down. Very intelligent comments outside of the first few. It is difficult to understand why hecklers receive posting rights, or are not tossed from a convention. I suppose the freedom of speech imposes upon us, the burden of listening to idiots, but why the ill-mannered? I remember Walter Mondale being relentlessly heckled during a speech. This action detracted from proper decision making in the electoral process. People had expended effort by travel, time and expense to determine his qualifications for president. I guess I was a little surprised that the heckler didn't get an ass-whopin by the crowd. He wasn't shown in the news video, so I'm guessing he was a large bully. I liked the redress given from most of you, and I suppose this new medium allows us to bypass ignorant text. Very similar to "The TV also has an off button". It is obvious that KBR is avoiding questions and lying...And that is how Enron fell. Every business receiving public funds, must be required to disclose how that money was spent, just like they must to stockholders.

I have thought long and hard about what has happened to my Country, and why it has happened. I have boiled it down to a quote by Thomas Jefferson “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent”. I can no longer remain silent.

I was like most Americans, not necessarily for the war, but confused by the information provided by “reliable sources”. I fluctuated from day to day in my opinion of whether we should be in Iraq, depending on what new “intelligence” report was distributed through the news media. I had some questions as to why we would invade Iraq with all of the information that was readily available on N. Korea, and with the atrocities taking place in African nations, but ultimately I watched it unfold without giving it any more thought than what kind of car to buy. I am ashamed of this admission. I am sorry to the families of those who have lost loved ones on either side of this conflict, because I am an American, and I do have rights. One of them outlined in the document that grants this government its power, the Constitution of the United States of America, is that when the governed feel that the government is not acting in good faith, the governed have the right by reasonable methods to make its voice heard. The Declaration of Independence declares that in the case of oppression it is our duty to become revolutionaries. I should have at a minimum found some like minded individuals and protested. A silly chain e-mail can make it from my desk in Arizona to Marrakesh in a day, so why couldn’t I have put together a petition of some sort? I know smart people, we could have done something, couldn’t we? But we didn’t, content in our ignorance and complacent with our compassion.

Having the knowledge that I have now of what was presented then; falsified reports (no WMD’s, no Nigerian yellowcake), malicious personal attacks on anyone refuting intelligence (Plame), no Al Queda in Iraq, and the new intelligence giving face to who lied where and when. What is left for me to do – but stand up for those who can not stand up for themselves? We are not safer now, I fear for my children’s lives more than ever. We are not economically stable as we are led to believe, China is buying us up in bulk like we are on sale at Costco. But most importantly we are not perfect, therefore, where do we get the condescending attitude we have toward the rest of the world. How do we reconcile in our own minds our right to impose “our way” upon sovereign nations while we watch the corruption and hypocrisy of this Country? I am fond of Thomas Jefferson (being an African American woman, I struggle with his slave issues), but his writings if used to take into consideration all of humankind, were remarkably profound. He once said “If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it”. Well Ladies and Gentlemen, our house is on fire. The question is how do we extinguish the hatred, thievery, fear, intolerance, bi-partisan politics, economic short-sightedness, and inhumanity in our executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government (yes, all three) that are fanning the flames.

How can my little voice scream out loud enough to be heard over the deafening silence of the average American too afraid to stand on the corner and even whisper their disappointment in what is happening in their world? As if somehow in a country founded by rebellious revolutionaries craving liberty it has become a crime to question even what you believe to be abhorrent. What happened to the generation of the sixties and seventies? Where did all of those people willing to withstand physical harm, verbal assaults, ridicule and isolation by their peers and loss of worldly possessions go? Are they awake, perhaps they have taken too much Prozac or Ambien to be coherent enough to see clearly what they are allowing their grandchildren to face? Notice I did not ask about my generation; the self-centered, put your grandma in a home, pull into your garage and close it behind you locking out the rest of the world Generation “X”. I know they don’t understand how to be heard or to have compassion for the world. Between prescription drugs and the deluded belief that they are one of “them”, the “haves” of the world (to this case the "haves
would be executives of corporate America), they can’t see just how far from being one of them that they are. But that was the hat trick wasn’t it? Allow the masses to have just enough not to be angry, not to believe that they are struggling (even though they are up to their eyebrows in debt), to fear making waves for the loss of these things they don’t even own. Our deafening silence is killing millions around the world. What a place we will leave for our children. If they aren’t all hooked on some pharmaceutical company’s magic pill (made just for those in denial), they will be trying to overcome the elements of global warming and nuclear (nucular for those of you unfamiliar with the correct pronunciation) winter at the same time. Bravo to this film and it’s supporters for trying to say something meaningful in this sea of untruths and diversionary tactics that we swim in daily.

I am not a politician nor would I want to be one. Socrates said “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live”. This brings us back to the Jefferson quote and what it boils down to, those of us who would stand for what is right – sit for what is wrong because we fear our own voice and the repercussions of what the truths we would speak would bring upon us. We have an unjust, immoral, corrupt government run by a megalomaniac and I chose to speak even though I do fear. I chose to speak for those who can not speak for themselves because they are being ignored, living with mal-nutrition, neglected by the educational system, fed poisons and toxins, killed for war profiteering, and in general misused and that’s just what’s happening to middle class America. So don’t be angry with the people telling the truth, that is an irrational thought process, be angry with those that are doing this to the American people that this story even has to be told.

This country and the world should not be treated as financial statistics to glorify personal wealth and supremacy. Our country is not a business and should never be treated as such ! What really concerns me is why exactly every time the price of fuel peaks that this administrations numbers fall ? If that is not hypocritical what is? I would hate to think that there are actually those who actually support this cause for a cheap tank of gas and the empty promise of lower taxes.
And slightly off subject , why are we not permitted to give honor by national media to each and every one of our young men and women who have given their all for us? Who is it going to offend?
The true Patriots are those who stand up to question wrong doings of those in government who set themselves upon their own riches and glory above their own people. Not at all unlike our original Patriots . Yet , when we demand our men and women be returned to us to guard our own borders we are accused of cutting and running. Secure our borders with these same men and women and it is doubtful many if any can make it through. It only takes 8 weeks to train our military men , what is the hold up ? We have been asked to leave Iraq! And we were told by this Administration when that did happen we would leave. So, why are we still there?
Your Damned Oil !
If we had taken care Iraqs corrupt leaders by other means and used all of that money and effort to strengthen our borders and switch to alternative fuels , we would have most of our people ,we would not have created a terrorist breeding ground where they could attack us at their own whim, and we would be much better off financially , and our borders would be much stronger than ever.
But no , a few greedy ignorant folks decided on our behalf that hey, someone is going to do it if we don't huh? Well, Howdy Doody time is about to end folks ! When you dig a hole so deep that hip waders won't keep you out , then cowboy boots aren't going to do it either.

Mr. McIntire, you had to cherry-pick your facts to make your position tenable. Doesn't that tell YOU it's the wrong position? Proves it to me. Everybody, GO to Morningstar or Yahoo and LOOK at the stock price since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HAL&t=5y

About $10 then, and peaked about $40 earlier this year. Yes, the last six months have been a bummer, it's down to $27 today -- war's not going too well, is it, and there's too much focus on corruption in Congress for any more of those no-bid contracts just at present.

I wish *my* IRA's had nearly tripled since 2003, how about you?

Thanks, Amanda. Keep it up, and don't let those idiots get you down.

to mr. mcintire - dont follow stocks, was once interested in doing so but upon further investigation and recent outings of big company's deception, have realized that the men and women who control them have little interest in their stock-holders' well-being, only their own gain, so even though you cite these companies as suffering losses, I doubt their senior partners are losing anything, and gaining much. wake up. nothing they do benefits anyone but themselves.

Welcome to the new Nazi-Facist coalition run world

If the companies who are making hoards of money as mentioned in "IRAQ for Sale," why have their returns been so dismal over the past six months. I can't find any financial references indicating any of these companies as a true market buy. Check out, Yahoo Finance, MorningStar, Fidelity, or Motley Fool . . . and you'll see what I mean.

Why would any major corporation grant a film company with a set political agenda the chance to have a cameral interview? Do you think they are nuts?

If you bought HAL, LLL or CAI in the past six months you lost money. There are hundreds of better stocks for more positive returns than those three.

Don't you think that Dick Chaney is pretty glad he had to devest himself form Haliburton after leaving for the VP job?

Government contracts aren't that such a good deal. Titan Corporation was a sludge stock for years. Had lots of orders but couldn't deliver. Companies that have over 50% of their sales coming from the federal government don't do very well on the balance sheet. L-3 may regret that Titan purchase of 1.6 billion dollars.

Kellogg, Brown & Root were dumped by Haliburton for the same reasons.

Haliburton makes more money and has a brighter future concentrating on building ports with processing plants to turn natural gas into a liquid for shipping in tanker ships and drilling operations than Middle East war contracts.

CACI is the king of technologies. You should be kind in your comments on that company. Their owned technical patents will be the life saver of our nation as the terrorist activities increase over the next 50-100 years. None-the-less
CAI is not a good investment for making money in the market at this time.

I'd put a little more work on researching the financial side of making an analysis of a company that is living off of the War in Iraq.

It really isn't as good as you think it is.

My burning concern is what to do with this information. I really do care about America and the potential for being a constructive force that is being squandered. I feel I, like the vast majority of American citizens, have no power to effect change. There was a time when I could write letters, protest, boycott and act responsibly with the hope that with education and collective effort we could turn the tide. But I believe that we no longer have a democracy, we have a corporate take over.

Free enterprise has it's strength and can be a good thing. It's danger however is that money becomes power and that when that power/money is emassed and then is used to gain more power/money, it is done regardless of the means or the consequences. Whether or not it throws whole parts of the globe into war, chaos, disease, whether or not it destroys the environment, promotes terror, torture and destruction.

I would welcome any thoughts about how this story could end in a way that was constructive and helped end the destructive profitteering that will not only misuse the lives of our service personel and civilians in the Middle East, but very possibly all of us in the end. I have never felt so hopeless. I have never wondered so candidly about my young son's chances at living out a viable life.

I do see how easy it would be to not deal effectively with all of one's email, or even to choose to ignore Amanda's requests. In that event however, the person needs to simply say "responding to this email was not a high priority and I provided no detailed information for this film" Can we decide as a society that outright lies are unacceptable without being labeled "whiney"? The war in Iraq is an important and complex situation, I think if we could all agree to not knowingly outright lie that would be helpful. What is there to disagree with in that?

PS: I try to remain open to viewpoints and understand how people arrive at their points of view, but making this personal is a waste of time. I have no concern about whether someone I don't know who has never met me likes me or finds me attractive. Perticularly when I am talking about something that is of such a serious nature, is taking lives, destabalizing the world, destroying the democratic process and which I fear could hurt ALL of us in the end.

But the exchanges re: Amanda reminded me forcefully of a night when I was in a bar and an intoxicated young man tried to pick a fight with someone who had accidently bumped him. When I tried to gently jolly him out of it he looked chagrined at having no viable defense for just a second, then he countered me with "yeah? well - you're not even good-looking!" (not a strong argument, since it was totally off topic, and also because I'm totally hot) Anyway, thank you for ignoring all of that nonsense Amanda and thank you for the work you do. I lack the optimism to fight the good fight as much as some, but I so appreciate those that do.
Kitty B

Even before the Right Wing Hit Piece on ABC, I wanted to see this movie--therefore I donated to make this film happen and am waiting for the release. Unlike "Path to 9/11", it won't be a Mock-U-Mentary and will record how CorpRATe interests looted Iraq and America at the same time. If it's even half as informative as "Uncovered" and "OutFoxed", it will be an eye popping experience for folks who feel they should support the war and those who have brought it to Iraq. It will also be an important historical marker of greed and arrogance by the Administration and those they work for (not the american people).

For christ's sake Jack, the site was just about to boil over into actual an actual intelligent dissection of the issue at play. Listen, Voltaire hit on something very important in his attempt to deconstruct the obviously dangerously unintelligent ranting that preceded him. "Tom, Ron, and Joe" have eerily similar voices. That is to say that what they have written follows a logical progression utilizes the same writing patterns in each comment, suggesting very obviously that they are the same person. This person has very distracting, loud voice, and states as if fact things that not only opinion, but opinions formed outside of a rational viewing of the video. As such it is highly likely that whoever wrote them wrote them intentionally to distract, i.e. is someone probalby associated with the company that the video is directed at discrediting. This is a non uncommon tactic. Corporations will often send out 'scabs' into union meetings, or gatherings of people discontented with the corporation's viewpoint to attempt to change the course of dialogue, or frustrate those involved in the meeting with rumor and innuendo. It is an old tactic, and often employed, but ultimately a failing tactic because, as in the case here, the 'scab' quickly goes overboard and falls into derivative seemingly mindless slander,quickly discrediting himself. The actual substance of the video, and it's truth, as a result, are obviously in tact.

Amanda and Voltaire,
sitting in a tree,
k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

First comes Voltaire's defense of Amanda's credibility,
then comes marriage,
then comes an empty baby carriage,
(because Voltaire has lazy, liberal swimmers).

The comments that have been posted above are absolutely sickening in their displays of woeful ignorance, blatant vulgarity, and infantile personal attacks. These outrageously malicious and baseless statements reek of PRECISELY what one would expect from a few anonymous Halliburton executives or employees, doing what they do best: fabricating lies, avoiding the issues, making unjustified personal attacks, and spreading their foul corruption everywhere they go.

The comments posted by "Joe" are particularly irritating (the others are largely ignorable), primarily due to the blatant falsehoods, idiocy and hypocrisy permeating every sentence he attempts to type. He employs the typical "DARVO" style attack that conscienceless, logically-impaired conservatives are famous for:

DARVO: Deny; Attack; Reverse Victim & Offender.

He begins, of course, by denying that he is political: "Ok, I am not political or anything" - exactly the first thing you'd expect to hear from a subconsciously guilty Halliburton exec, or PR-for-hire "reputation management" goon, desperately trying to establish their credibility and objectivity.

He then proceeds immediately to "Attack": "YOU ARE A WHINEY LOSER".

Next on the agenda, Reverse Victim & Offender! Amanda has not made any harsh or offensive remarks, even though Ron attacks the tape as "whiney", "woe is me", and "slander", and suggests Amanda is selfish -- "understand that the world does not revolve around your every whim and need" -- and unprofessional -- "get a real job and stop playing work" -- and needs to "grow up". Yet amazingly, "Joe" comes along with:

Reverse Victim & Offender #1: "I don't want to say this without a consideration of you or your feelings though (unlike you)".

Thanks Joe! By that statement alone, we have all been reassured that you have nothing but the most noble of intentions, the most justified of arguments, and certainly we are all convinced that it is AMANDA who is to blame for being inconsiderate; certainly not you! *cough*

Reverse Victim & Offender, #2: "You owe the other posters an apology for how you insulted them. They raised a question to you, and your response was slandar[sic] and name calling."

Owes apologies to whom, and for what? Precisely what "insults" has Amanda made - could you please point them out? What names has she called anyone? The only "name calling", ironically comes from WITHIN JOE'S VERY OWN POST, along with Ron, Bag on head, & fellow cronies. Hence: Reverse Victim & Offender.

Baseless ignorance, vulgarities, personal attacks, and DARVO are present in full force. I'm surprised the comments here haven't been disabled... but then of course, if you let that happen, the "targeted outreach" being performed by public-relations reputation management firms will have been considered successful.

Joe, Bag on Head, and LickitySplit -
You are pathetic excuses for human beings, let alone Men, and you should be ashamed of yourselves, however, considering the tripe you wrote, I doubt you have the capacity to be aware of your own lack of integrity and hatefulness. You sound like a bunch of name-calling sixth graders. Have you nothing better to do with your time? The funny thing is, you all need to do what you perniciously suggested Amanda do, and that is to "grow up." I wonder if you're really people simply voicing their opinions at all? That's a chilling thought. I imagine you may very well be "plants" who post drivel like that to get people off focus and off the subject. I can only hope. Amanda, good for you for not wasting the time or effort to acknowledge their pathetic and ridiculous comments.

Yeah totally, she's like soooo ugly. I can't believe she even showed her face. Ugly people are so stupid. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh. Have you ever noticed that most liberal people are ugly - greenwald, moore, colmes. Probably because their "moral confusion" compels them to breed with the "other" races. I think Bag is on to something when she says that Amanda takes her ugliness out on corporations; maybe liberals take there ugliness out on America.

Oh my. Now I understand. You are the UGLIEST girl EVER.

Ughhhhhhhh. Make-up can't help you. Nothing can. Now you take it out on corporations.

Sorry, have to go vomit. Seriously, soooooooo UGLY

Ok, I am not political or anything but I have to give my 2 cents on this. Amanda, YOU ARE A WHINEY LOSER. I don't want to say this without a consideration of you or your feelings though (unlike you). It appears that the fat gay bald loser that you've decided is your role model has chosen to make you his puppet. You obviously don't have a thought of your own and are at his nasty commands. You owe the other posters an apology for how you insulted them. They raised a question to you, and your response was slandar and name calling.

The way you responded to Tom and Ron exposes you and the nasty fat bald man as frauds.

Please get a real job. Then let's discuss in 6 months or so.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA. A loser like you wouldn't last 6 months. Keep playing 'pretend work' with dirty old man. I'm sure your parents don't acknowledge you. I wouldn't.

You've obviously never worked in the film industry. It is definitely not play work. But hey man I understand your point of view. You feel it is ok to lie to the press as long as it makes you look good. Is that how the corporate world works? AGAIN it is not about her responding or not responding. It is about her not telling the truth.

Amanda, here's my issue. Melissa does not work for you. I deal with hundreds of requests a week. Most I deal with through email coorespondance. Some individuals want to speak via phone but it is my DISCRETION whether or not to use phone/email/interview. Mainly if the individual is not even a customer, which you are not. Ms Norcross was more than willing to contact you, just not in the avenue that you desired. So you decide to make a whiney, woe is me tape slandering someone since they didn't care to your every whim.

Boo-hoo. Grow up and get a real job and stop playing work. I think that if you did work in a challenging corporate environment you would understand that the world does not revolve around your every whim and need.

Yes she did respond. The issue is that she said she gave us detailed information about Halliburton and that we chose to ignore it. We never received anything from her until way after she made that quote in the Washington Post. And I have now sent her detailed questions which she said she would answer and I have still received no response. So know it is not that I just didn't like what she had to say....it is that what she had to say wasn't the truth.

So, real quick question.... you say that they didn't respond to you... did Halliburton really not respond to you, or just not give you access to their CEO... I mean, Norcross seems to make herself available to answer your questions.... agreed, maybe not the best medium for making a movie, but that seems to at least imply a willingness to answer your questions....

did they not respond, or did they just not respond the way you wanted them to?