With Halliburton pulling out of Iraq, who will feed our troops?

[JuniperLea]

Who is going to take care of our guys over there? Halliburton and it subsidiaries were in charge of mess hall operations... and they couldn't even get that right. But is the military prepared to take over?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Hopefully, local restaurants in the United States.

Where they will be happily served after their discharge.

[JuniperLea]

4. I only wish they could move that quickly

I doubt it. Ask the poor guys that are still stuck in Afghanistan.

[leftofthedial]

2. Rumsfeld's plan is for them to eat Iraqi children

and forage in the abundant Iraqi sand-cabbage fields

[spinbaby]

3. Huh? What did I miss?

When did Halliburton pull out?

[checkmate1947]

5. Some of GWBs friends

Like, Oman, Quatar,Kuwait, and Saudia Arabia, the own the ports why not let them do everything else: sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Recursion]

6. Too bad Rummy gutted the military's food service capabilities

At least on the Marine side, the subsistence supply clerk MOS was discontinued, and all food service units were broken out to battalions or, in many cases, removed by attrition.

Frederick the Great made a tremendously effective military revolution by making food service organic to his military rather than contracting it out; that was a large part of his army's amazing mobility and endurance. We've cut off our military's legs by making it incapable of feeding itself without contractors who aren't subject to military discipline.

[JuniperLea]

8. How quickly do you think they can get it all back together?

If Halliburton makes changes before our military is ready this could be disastrous.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

7. Poor Hellibruton, stock down today by over 1% so far

Funny how there isn't a reference, at least not one I found, to the chain man. He still gets an annuity or something from them I know.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=HAL

[warrens]

9. They don't get armor or healthcare, why should they get food?

You want to SPOIL the meat...er, I mean, our brave troops?

[lastknowngood]

10. If it were not for the republican bastards ruining our country our troops

would be.

[fordnut]

11. Army

I always thought the army fed itself,can they not cook anymore?

[JuniperLea]

13. The military gave that job to Halliburton subsidiaries

They don't do it themselves anymore. All the personnel assigned to those duties are out with guns instead of pots and pans.

And I wonder if anyone is coordinated enough to make sure they are ready to do it themselves before Cheney's "caterers" pull out.

[ComerPerro]

12. Haliburton, for many reasons

not only have they been doing this for years, they will be able to bid lower than anyone else because of the position they had, and they have made so much money by overcharging us that they will be able to bid low.


Besides, they could bid as low as they want to win, it doesn't matter. Once they get the contract back, they can gouge us for all we're worth again.