Politics > Politics-USA > Cheney's Halliburton's cashing its checks but doesn't know what it's supposed to do.
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"Harry Hope" |
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11 Aug 2003 11:51:52 AM |
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Cheney's Halliburton's cashing its checks but doesn't know what it's supposed to do. |
Thank goodness ***** Cheney's former company Halliburton is being paid
millions of taxpayer dollars for their role in Iraq right now.
It would be even better if they actually showed up to do any work.
Last fall the Army hired Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root
to "draw up a plan for supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, covering
everything from handling the dead to managing airports," according to
Newhouse News Service.
But apparently insurance rates for civilian contractors skyrocketed as
the war progressed, and now its getting "harder and harder to get
(civilian contractors) to go in harm's way," according to Lt. Gen.
Charles S. Mahan, the Army's logistics chief.
The consequence of this is that troops stationed in Iraq have been
living in squalid conditions, camping in primitive shelters with no
means of air conditioning, using plywood latrines, and going without
fresh food and showers.
So I guess this is Halliburton's idea of supporting the troops.
Boy, I'm glad the Army chose to hire a company that was so obviously
well-prepared for this work.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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| User: "Michael" |
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| Title: Re: Cheney's Halliburton's cashing its checks but doesn't know what it'ssupposed to do. |
20 Aug 2003 01:58:52 PM |
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Tabernacle wrote:
To bad for that Poor ***** Soldier who Died from the Heat though, In
fact it seems that these Republickcan Sunshine Patriots are more
interested in making $$$ off the Iraq war than in seeing that our
Soldiers have a decent place to take a crap or a cool place to sleep
in at night and that they can get at least two good hot meals a day!
Money may have been a primary consideration for some in the administration right from the start. They
needed to move some inventory, buy more weapons of mass destruction, write some new contracts, and pay
billions to those companies involved. A lot of money to be made on this war. But they miscalculated, no
they screwed up, because this isn't going at all the way they had intended it to.
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"We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole
Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a
fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an
unwinable urban guerilla war, it could only plunge that part of the orld into ever greater instability."
-George H. W. Bush in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"
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