Halliburton Tries To Recruit Southerners To Go To Iraq!

[Bluebear]

Memphis, TN - Halliburton is offering mid-southerners the chance to work in Iraq. They're holding recruitment seminars at a hotel near Memphis International Airport. Halliburton is contracted to support efforts in rebuilding Iraq. The company is targeting soon-to-be ex-soldiers. The salaries range from 80 to 100-thousand dollars with a 12-month commitment. (Note: how much so we pay our soldiers?)

Forty-eight Halliburton contractors have died in the middle east and two remain missing. But one mid-southerner just returned from Iraq and says he would do it again. Darren Searle is a returning Halliburton employee. Searle told us why he would go back. "The adventure! I love to travel. Once you are there you have the opportunity to travel everywhere! I like that and the money is not bad." He says if the trucks were armored it would encourage him to go back. He says that would cut down on injuries.

The Halliburton seminar will be held today and Saturday at 8 a-m and 1 o'clock this afternoon. It's at the Radisson Inn at the Memphis airport on Winchester road. They're looking for people with all types of backgrounds.

http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=2405102

[ogradda]

1. i'd be a wreck if i had to go over there

not even for twice as much money - and i could use it :)

[napi21]

2. My son told me today, that a friend of his has accepted a job

in Iraq. It's a 60 day committment and the pay is $1,000 a day. He didn't say what company it was, and I doubt it's Halliburton. It has something to do with aircraft security, and I don't think that's Halliburton's area. My son asked him why he would do that? Sure the $$ is nice, but not doing you much good if you're dead!

[Zorbet55]

3. No offense but no thanks.

The troops are complaining now that they are having to provide escorts with light armaments for these contractors and many are foreigners who are not trained in ambush maneuvers or avoiding the wrong roads. It is as dangerous for the light-armed escorts as it is for the civilian contractors, from my understanding of the situation. All I can say to them is "see ya, wouldn't want to be ya". Money is not that important. I'd rather stay poor and humble.

[ogradda]

4. shit i've got

food to eat, a roof over my head, and my head on my shoulders. what more does a girl need? :)

[Skittles]

5. war profiteers

:puke:

[crickets]

6. *bangs a rod around large iron triangle* - come and get it!

"Carpetbaggers! Calling all carpetbaggers!"

You'd think they'd know better (says someone from Georgia.) :eyes: The 'don't get killed' part goes without saying as well. Idiots.

[anarchy1999]

7. Why are we not giving this money to the Iraqi's themselves to rebuild

their country. This is criminal. I am so ashamed and I hurt for my country for the pain we are imposing upon the people of Iraq. We have much to be sorry for.

[sventvkg]

10. Give me a break..LOL..Like we are there for that!!!! We're there to line

The pockets of Trans-national Corporations!!!!

[anarchy1999]

11. Laugh as much as you like. The point remains the same.

Until we the people demand a change things will stay the same.

[southernleftylady]

8. ACK!! this is my local station! nt

[sventvkg]

9. Let em go die then I say...

[Ezlivin]

12. Living is the key to the benefits program

I had to paraphrase what Peter Falk said to Alan Arkin in the original "The In-Laws".

If you want to keep a good head on your shoulders, Iraq is not the place to go.