let's just keep on awarding them contract after contract after contract. let's keep on makin' the big DICKS of the world rich......
Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water
Mar 16, 7:27 AM (ET)By LARRY MARGASAK
WASHINGTON (AP) - Halliburton Co. (HAL) failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death," an internal company report concluded.
The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.
The problems discovered last year at that site - poor training, miscommunication and lax record keeping - occurred at Halliburton's other operations throughout Iraq, the report said.
"Countrywide, all camps suffer to some extent from all or some of the deficiencies noted," Wil Granger, Theatre Water Quality Manager in the war zone for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary, wrote in his May 2005 report..
....AP reported earlier this year allegations from whistleblowers about the Camp Ar Ramadi incident, but Halliburton never made public Granger's internal report alleging wider problems..............
......The contaminated, non-chlorinated water at Ar Ramadi was discovered in March 2005 in a commode by Ben Carter, a KBR water expert at the base. In an interview, Carter said he resigned after KBR barred him from notifying the military and senior company officials about the untreated water.......
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Just heard Rep Waxman give a list of overcharges by the big "H"
Seems they have ripped us off for about a billion dollars. But we just keep on handing out those contracts and paying them bonuses to boot. Why not just change the name of our country to the United States of Halliburton.
Little frog croaks (OK it's me, but why split hairs) that Halliburton is going to get the nod to take over the ports that DP World gave up on.
instead of paying my taxes to the government, i think i am just going to turn that money directly over to the big h
that's where it ends up (and in you know whos pockets as well)
this whole privatization thing that we are beginning to take for granted is horseshit ... the military should take care of its own water and food, governments should administer prisons and jails, etc. the only purpose of privatization is to inject anothe layer of profiteering into the whole scheme .. when that happens corners get cut in the name of profit ... troops get shitty water ... and detainees get even worse (there were food riots in abu gharib as a result of private contactor inflicted dysentery that resulted in machine gunning of detainees ... a while back) ... and then there's the corporate cloak of irresponsibility, liability insulation, and spokespeople to hide behind ...
dick cheney should be waterboarded with some of this shitty water
i didn't know about the dysentery or the food riots or the machine gunning. some things i just don't WANT to know about (but at the same time i realize i really SHOULD know about them). you're right the rich get richer and the masses get shite (including NON prisoner types as well)
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