The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night. |
It is not hyperbole to say that those beneficiaries of wartime tax cuts and contract deals should now be called war profiteers. |
I also see the other side of the coin, and I believe that most of the companies in the cleanup game are no better than war profiteers. |
They chanted anti-government slogans and carried placards denouncing the war profiteers. |
It will become even harder to swing public opinion behind humanitarian interventions if war profiteers and racist thugs are direct beneficiaries. |
Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly. |