Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons. . Naomi Klein
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The world is full of people who attempt to use greed as an excuse to do wrong. They use it as a justification for everything from war to theft. This quote shows the hypocrisy of those who try to use greed as an excuse to justify their actions. They want people to think that they are just trying to make money, but nothing could be further from the truth. Greed is the crassest urge that exists in this world, and it must be controlled at all costs.

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