Crony Contracts and the Bush Administration : Iraq News and ...

They have had contracts to build airbases in Pakistan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s. [find out exactly what they do in Iraq]. Still another Virginia based corporation has a government contract to operate in Iraq ... In the 15th century, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote about mercenaries in his book, The Prince calling them, “useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure , ...