US Troops in Iraq talk about Halliburton & KBR...

[bridgit]

Run time: 09:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXjCtkymRQ   Posted on YouTube: May 25, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 12, 2007 By DU Member: bridgit Views on DU: 887

 

[daninthemoon]

1. How much will darth cheney be paid the day he leaves office?

[bridgit]

6. Dick Cheney...

'Vice President Dick Cheney's stock options in Halliburton rose from $241,498 in 2004 to over $8 million in 2005, an increase of more than 3,000 percent, as Halliburton continues to rake in billions of dollars from no-bid/no-audit government contracts.

An analysis released by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reveals that as Halliburton's fortunes rise, so do the Vice President's. Halliburton has already taken more than $10 billion from the Bush-Cheney administration for work in Iraq. They were also awarded many of the unaccountable post-Katrina government contracts, as off-shore subsidiaries of Halliburton quietly worked around U.S. sanctions to conduct very questionable business with Iran (See Story #2). "It is unseemly," notes Lautenberg, "for the Vice President to continue to benefit from this company at the same time his administration funnels billions of dollars to it."'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/lizzie-cheney-the-pride_b_39398.html :puke:

[daninthemoon]

7. Thanks, I think. Why oh why isn't any of this EVER brought up in

these hearings? It is SO shameful,and SO blatant.

[kenfrequed]

11. Oh hell

The VP should be in Leavenworth, or at least in Danbury. This IS criminal!

[superkia]

2. Have any of our candidates ever mentioned this?

Has this even been an issue with the Democratic party? I had already seen this written but when you listen to them speak about it and see what they are doing it just makes me sick!

[bridgit]

5. i wish they would...

[Nictuku]

3. This enrages me

This enrages me. We need to stop War Profiteering now.

This came out back in May. I heard about it briefly on the TV, then it was buried. It makes me sick... literally. I haven't been this angry since Katrina.

Call your representatives . End this war profiteering now.

Peace (Maluhia)

[bridgit]

4. i agree with Randi, if we took the war profits out of war, war profiteers...

would be little interested in war

[provis99]

8. if this criminal war profiteering had occured during World War 2

FDR would have seized Halliburton as a war profiteer. Truman called these profiteering companies traitors. We need to seize these companies now, and distribute the proceeds to the families of American soldier casualties, and Iraqi victims.

[bdamomma]

9. oh this is sickening , this has got tostop. NOW.

[kenfrequed]

10. Grr

Nationalize the SOB's and send those responsible for this to prison.

Seriously when you defraud the goverment for that much friggin money how can you honestly expect to get anything of it back? They will just declare bankruptcy. Seize all of their assets. It really is the only option.

What gets me is somehow my speaking out against the war is somehow construed as "not supporting the troops" but this crap is considered patriotic? What a bunch of crap.