I Support The Troops, my ass! Every one of you with a yellow ribbon magnet on the back of your car better pick up the phone and call your congressional representatives about this bullshit right now.
What bullshit is it today, Russ? Glad you asked.
Halliburton gets $72 mln bonus for work in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army said on Tuesday it had awarded $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. for logistics work in Iraq but had not decided whether to give the Texas company bonuses for disputed dining services to troops.
So, you might be giving Halliburton even more in bonuses, but a paltry $72 million is punishment for ripping us taxpayers off on the charging-for-dinners-that-weren’t-delivered fiasco?!?
The Army said in a statement later that while it had given the company an additional $72 million, it had denied KBR $10.1 million in bonuses and not paid the maximum allowed on any of the task orders.
“We have protected the taxpayer FIRST,” said the Army in a statement released later, pointing out this paragraph had been “inadvertently left off” the original news release.
Yes, I feel so very protected. Nice of Cheney’s buddies to put the condom on before they sodomized us.
“It is outrageous that the Bush Administration would give Halliburton a bonus after we have seen its overcharges, sloppy accounting and kick-back schemes in Iraq,” [NJ Senator Frank] Lautenberg said. “Giving Halliburton a bonus is like giving your worst employee a raise.”
No, it’s more like the CEO forcing the HR manager to give the CEO’s son a mailroom job for vice-president pay, then giving the CEO’s son a big fat bonus for embezzling from the company.
Here’s just one example of your Support The Troops Chickenhawk Administration at work:
ChicagoKate, wife of soldier in Afghanistan: “Don’t even get me started. I just sent a box full of basic tools to my husband in Afghanistan because KBR [Kellogg, Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary] won’t give them any, not even a lug wrench for changing flat tires. Not to mention the $150 he had to put out for a motorola radio (the Guard can’t seem to find the money to supply them…), while KBR guys are running around base with $500 jobs that work twice as well. My husband had to send out an email asking for batteries for the radio he had to pay for, since the military and KBR (are they one in the same now?) won’t supply them and the thing only takes AA alkaline batteries so he can’t use rechargables. He had to go to the Afghan market to buy a lug wrench. It’s ridiculous!!! And we wonder why everything’s a mess. An airborne ranger who’s supposed to be training ANA troops has to go fish around for basic tools because KBR won’t leave base and also won’t supply tools for the soldiers to take with them.
And the saddest part is this is just one little drop out a whole sea of KBR/Halliburton disasters. They ride around base in $150,000 uparmored vehicles while my husband and his team are stuck in unarmored Ford Ranger pick-ups.
What a joke.”
Yeah, that’s funny. I’m sure it has nothing to do with Halliburton’s former CEO being the Vice President, and these sort of profit considerations had nothing to do with Bush & Blair conspiring to cook up bogus reasons to go to war. Nothing at all.
This maladministration is criminal, treasonous, and filled with traitors to the highest degree.
