By Beauty Damned

Ghastly

We all know that Halliburton is continuing their renowned fraudulent activities in Iraq. I knew that they overcharged our government $1.09 per gallon on 57 million gallons of gas. I knew they billed for at least three times the meals actually delivered to troops. But I was freshly appalled to read about the conditions of the facilities being used to prepare food for the military.

The Pentagon reported finding "blood all over the floor," "dirty pans," "dirty grills," "dirty salad bars" and "rotting meats ... and vegetables" in four of the military messes the company operates in Iraq, NBC said, citing Pentagon documents.

The report came as President George W. Bush fended off Pentagon reports that Halliburton-KBR overcharged US$61 million for gasoline it sold the military in Iraq. Dick Cheney ran Halliburton for five years until becoming vice president."

Now I don't know about you, but where I live, those conditions will have a restaurant or cafeteria closed down in a matter of minutes due to health hazards and sanitation violations. It's not bad enough these soldiers are fighting this crooked war, we are paying Halliburton to inflict salmonella, ecoli and common food poisoning upon them as well.

Meanwhile, Time reported on Monday that a Pentagon e-mail stated that Vice President Dick Cheney coordinated a huge Halliburton government contract for Iraq, despite his denial of interest in the company, which he ran until 2000.

These scumbags just can't resist helping their friends, no matter the cost to American taxpayers.

"As vice president, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the federal government," Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press" in September, Time reported. …

Cheney had been Halliburton's chief executive until 2000, when he accepted the vice presidential spot.

Unfortunately for Dick, the email obtained by Time contradicts the aforementioned statements made in September.

Top Pentagon official, Douglas Feith, got the job of shepherding the contract, according to the latest edition of the weekly magazine.

Feith approved the multibillion-dollar deal "contingent on informing WH tomorrow," the e-mail said, referring to the White House. "We anticipate no issues since action has been coordinated" with the "VP's office," it added, referring to Cheney's office."

The newsweekly said that Halliburton won the contract three days later, and that no other bids were submitted.

Now that is the mug of a truly crooked man. Four more years of him running the show and maybe we will be too emersed in shit, lies, emissions, debt and war to even breath.

Darth Vader strikes again. Now my little Bushy Bushies, close your eyes, shake your heads back and forth and repeat after me: "it's all okay. It's all okay. Our government has our best interests at heart. It's all okay. It's all okay." Ignore that voice in the back of your head screaming at the top of its lungs "these crooks are robbing us blind!!! This war has nothing to do with terrorism or freedom!!! It's all about the Benjamins!!!"

Posted by Maria at June 10, 2004 03:07 PM | TrackBack