Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Halliburton Blood Money Serves Rotten Food in Iraq

Counterpunch: The list of Cheneyburton's many sins are as long as Pharaoh's papyrus in the Ten Commandments, but here are 2 especially heinous crimes: 1) Halliburton's strenuous efforts prevents a company hired by the Iraqis, Lloyd-Owen International, from delivering gasoline into the conquered land from Kuwait for 18 cents a gallon. Why? Because LOI's cost-efficient operation undercuts Halliburton's highway-robbery price of $1.30 a gallon for the exact same service. 2) Employees testified that Halliburton brass ordered them to serve spoiled and rotten food to US soldiers, day in and day out. Meanwhile, Halliburton brass were reserving choice cuts for the big beer-soaked BBQs they threw for themselves 2 or 3 times a week. They also billed the taxpayer for 10,000 "ghost meals" a day at a single base: the food was phantom, but the rake-off was real. Meanwhile, any employee who made noises about exposing the fraud to auditors was threatened w/transfer to a red-hot fire zone, like Fallujah or Saddam's hometown, Tikrit. I believe there is a special place in Hell for the likes of Cheneyburton's war profiteers: They will gorge themselves on blood soaked rotten food and be forced to wash it down w/Iraqi oil... fitting, no?
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