The Halliburton Army

[realFedUp]

I was listening to a woman on Pacifica Radio this morning
whose son is in Iraq guarding a prison in the Sunni Triangle area.
She said because this is a "Halliburton" run army, the soldiers
have to drive to another city to get their mail because the
army says it's too dangerous to deliver. Convoys are being
attacked on the roads and there are many more injuries than
reported, since only deaths are being reported.

How can we find out exactly what roles Halliburton is
playing in running this army....food, communications,
housing etc?

as an aside, one of the women interviewed...it might
have been her, said she had to send water and food over
since Halliburton wasn't doing its job. What do people
supporting this war think about that?

[ComerPerro]

1. Can we at all?

Not that this administration has ever been secretive...

[David Zephyr]

2. Kerry Spoke The "H" Word This Morning in S. Carolina. Good for Him.

n/t

[Ekaterina]

3. Halliburton Army

Until this hits the mainstream "media" and the whores begin reporting as opposed to fellating this admin (which means you will never hear this reported on Faux), there will be no outrage at the DISSERVICE being done our servicemembers. This is the most criminal and corrupt "administration" in the history of this country....in the meantime, men and women will continue to suffer and die for Bush and his criminal lies.

[qb]

4. Wait a second - it's too dangerous to deliver the mail, so

soldiers have to risk their lives to go and get it themselves?
I recently read a nostalgic excerpt about life in the military, and the author said the mail was always given priority. Even if they couldn't deliver the food on time, they made sure the mail got there. So much for the Haliburton "morale... what morale?" army.

[zekeson]

5. Mail delivery sucks

My nephew recently came back from Iraq after spending 10 months there. He said he received little mail once the hostilities officially started. Things he didn't receive? Care packages from his parents, letters from his fiance, dozens of letters of supports from school kids, letters from his brother stationed elsewhere, letters from me. He also reported substantial problems with rations (its only MREs, fer chrissakes!), water, and suncreen.

Halliburton is doing it on the cheap, and with no oversight, are making out like bandits. * needs to be gone in '04 and whoever replaces him needs to open a sunstaintial investigation. I'll bet it wouldn't take a 70$ million investiagtion to put * and Cheney and all the other crooks in Leavenworth....

edited for type, er, tupo, typow

[htuttle]

6. War profiteering...

...has been one of the Bush family businesses for 3 generations.

[Ilsa]

7. They should have a link

and audio in a few days on their site: http://www.pacifica.org/ I hope they will include this woman's interview.

[msanger]

8. How much does H. make for every dead soldier?

I'd really like to know. If Chenney's company makes 250 million from Iraq this year, and we lose 250 soldiers, that means each soldier is worth 1,000,000 to the Vice President's company.

I wonder if the soldiers get anything special - linked to how much Chenney's friends make. I know they did in Catch-22.

[terryg11]

9. I just saw this somewhere mainstream

an article that talked about how private companies provide a lot of services to the US military, I'll try to find it. May have even come off of the AP wire

[bobthedrummer]

10. Halliburton, DynCorp, Wackenhutt etc.

they are making a killing off the wars.
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6008

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6328

:puke::puke::puke:

[izzie]

11. What happened to the quartermasters?

Can not have a great army if you can not supply it?

[InkAddict]

13. Outsourced to the Game Boy players

[realFedUp]

12. If anyone finds more info on this...thanks

I think this is a subject that's fit for the biggies...
hope someone is running with it.