Posted on 12/10/2004 12:02:02 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Despite investigations of alleged financial misdeeds, Halliburton Company has passed the ten (b) billion dollar mark in Iraq work orders from the Army.
The Army has ordered more than eight (b) billion dollars worth of work from Halliburton under a contract to support soldiers with meals, housing, laundry and other services. Halliburton got two-point-five (b) billion more in work from the Army Corps of Engineers to put out oil well fires and shore up Iraq's dilapidated oil infrastructure.
Allegations of misdeeds including corruption and overcharging have led to criminal, congressional and Pentagon investigations of Halliburton's work in Iraq.
Halliburton says it's doing a good job in Iraq and says the allegations are old and unfounded.
There are now over 500 leaks in the big dig tunnel.
You mean they didn't federalize it and bus in teamsters? Oh, then it can't POSSIBLY be honest...
Oh, that's just great. Now we'll lose another 10,000 Houston workers to Iraq. Who'se going to replace them?
And this is corruption because it is Halliburton?
So? You prefer that French firm, the only other in the world that could take on this operation, get the work instead? Why does the media make it seem like such a crime to award these contracts to the only American company capable of performing a mission this size and scope? They scream about outsourcing in every other instance. Who else is going to do this work if not Halliburton, "ACME Nation Rebuilding Services?"
What's with the (b)?
Does AP think its readers are idiots?
I suppose they'd prefer that Bin Laden Telecommunications handle the telephone infrastructure and that Bin Laden Engineering handle the civil and architectural work. (These are real companies.)
I was at a protest of the local Syracuse "Peace" Council's fundraiser last weekend, denouncing their group as a hate group, one member came up to me and we talked. She said she did not like the fact that the USA is the lone superpower, she feels Dick Checney wants to rule the world, said he has lied to us but could give no exampled exept that she did not like his demeanor, and when Halliburton came up, I asked her to name a different co. that she would prefer do the work...she could not list any. When she said we killed Iraqi kids for years, I asked about the UN scandal and she ran away...
Yes, I think they would prefer that. I think these hard-left media types that can't go a day without blathering on about Halliburton think Halliburton and Dick Cheney a greater evil than Al Qaeda or Bin Laden. Hell, even on the History Channel's interesting portrait of Ben Franklin the other night, Walter Isaksson, formerly the editor and chief of Time Magazine, couldn't avoid making some dumb remark about Halliburton. These people live their sorry "lives" in fear of a company. How pathetic is that?? Oh yeah, let's just shut down Halliburton. Maybe the New York Times or Dan Rather could find jobs for the 10's of thousands who would lose their jobs. Good night, these liberals need serious, long-term mental health counselling.
As long as we are readdressing the 200 election fraud...
HALLIBURTON, DIEBOLD.... Yeaaahhhhhaaaahahh!
Dick Chaney is a robot, Al gore is a Tree
Halliburton has equipment and expertise that nobody else inthe world has or can do.
There are still morons out there arguing for the French to have a piece of the action.
I'm (b) bored by the Halliburton story and I'm sure most of the allegations are (b) bullcrap
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