Supporting the troops. Evil Party style
Witness Rory Mayberry, a former food production manager at Halliburton subsidiary KBR, testified that troops were given food that had expired as much as a year earlier. He described a scene in which, after a convoy was ambushed, he and other employees were instructed to remove the bullets and shrapnel from the food supplies and serve them to U.S. soldiers.
(quote via Raw Story. WARNING: LINK CONTAINS POPUP WINDOWS)
Halliburton, which, as you may remember, used to be run by a member of the B*sh Junta, is the happy recipient of US$10.5 billion dollars for providing quality services such as this. In the old days, the army used to provide their own food services, but, naturally, this reduced the opportunities for enriching well-connected Evil Party supporters, via such things as US$72 million "performance" bonuses for things like supplying rotten bullet-ridden food to the US soldiers stuck in the Coward in Chief's splendid little war.
One would think that, this being a "Global War On Terror", that Halliburton would say "no, thank you", and donate that US$72 million to veterans relief, but, then you'd have to consider that Halliburton is intimately connected to the people who control the Evil Party, and none of them give even the slightest damn about the US military, except as another teat where they can get the smooth sweet milk of government payola from.
(hat tip to No Capitol)
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Wait a minute.
«Sorry - I nor the millions that put Bush into the White House (by a landslide) for a second term see anything evil about killing terrorists»
You're willing to admit that you think that United States Soldiers are terrorists?
Oooooo-kay. I'd say "thanks", but I've got too many family members in the United States armed forces to feel at all happy that you and your cowardly ilk consider them to be terrorists.
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Sorry - I nor the millions that put Bush into the White House (by a landslide) for a second term see anything evil about killing terrorists - but you obviously love them and probably support the killing of innocent people. Yeah - war is never perfect and the good people sometimes end up killing good people - why war is something to avoid. But when it is required we should not hold back. When an enemy is defined the enemy must die.
Socialists are happy with this war because they use it in an attempt to attack our democracy and capitalism - as you attempt to do with your Haliburton comments. You and those like you offer no alternative to use instead of Haliburton. They are a huge company with huge resources - but don't think you'd understand business concepts. If I want to use resources for a new project I'll prefer to use those of a company that I'm familiar with. Again - something liberals and socialists rather not admit to - why should they when they can use it as an attack point against an administration.
Perhaps thanks to blogs and whatever more and more people are aware of the charade you people do.