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Originally Posted by jayrebb  Just trying to get an idea of how this is possible,
Who would be handing out the money anyway? Doesnt seem like the chain of command would even make those kinds of bribes possible. 5k here? 1k here?
Did one of the 4 stars come around with a big duffel bag of cash, honking a horn in an open-top hummer, riding around the combat zones looking for war crimes to throw hush money at? "Yo you guys just kill some kids? Take a couple stacks of these ben franks"
Sounds like a Santa Claus fantasy of some sort. Gullible indeed. |
He didn't say they were handed it by someone in their chain of command.
Contract work in Iraq, with American and international companies and also local contractors, is paid for in cash. The smaller of these contractors are actually paid with wheel barrels filled with bricks of cash by the various US reconstruction authorities.
To think that one of these contractors wouldn't pay off a couple marines to shut up about anything from faulty electrical wiring to a kid crushed under a truck is not entirely unreasonable.