Don’t worry. The Iraqis will take care of these ghouls once the SOFA is signed and Iraq gets control of their own country. (Who am I kidding?)

You forgot this one..the toxic, cancer causing dust.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1203.html

Just the latest horror. How do they expect our troops to fight if they are all sick? Disgusting.

kbr should be declared war profiteers, enemies of the state, their profits should be federalized and the profit cheney has realized using his pals for these contracts needs to be reduced to zero

Read this else where but the whole thing just makes me sick….. having being stationed overseas and been at the mercy of is supplied in the BX/PX and housing…. I know it was a long time ago and never in a war zone.

As a healthcare professional…… it makes me it worse…… our military are at risk enough without risking their safety with medical waste, contaminated food… just would like to rub the noses of the KBR execs in this mess and hang it around their necks for the rest of their lives……. make them pay….. and pay and pay…

The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that “still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces.”

soylent green is people. brought to you by KBR.

just treasonous.

The sorry truth of all this is that contractors have become so ubiquitous that the military is going to be hard-pressed to move away from using them.

I strongly support Obama’s moves to increase the armed forces by 90,000 if those 90,000 troops are to fill billets that represent eliminated, completely eliminated, contractor jobs. It’s demoralizing for a sp4 or a corporal in the Marine Corps to see some private merc being paid an ungodly amount of money for doing the same job that the soldier or Marine is getting paid next to nothing for.

Wasn’t KBR also responsible for the electrocutions of some soldiers in Iraq, also?

If I remember when the Contracting agency gave KBR the level III rating they indicated that they could not give them a level IV because there was no one big enough to take over. Kinda sounds like more of this to big to fail shit.

Read this else where but the whole thing just makes me sick

Cheney must be associated with kbr and what they did to our soldiers in the name of profit, his name must become synonymous with Benedict Arnold

Weren’t they also accused of filling water bottles for the troops out of polluted river water?

yeah. and you know, “too big to fail” sounds very anti capitalism to me. If there is a vacuum in the market, someone will step in to fill it.

Not when no competition contracts are the rule.

I believe I heard that hell is heating up now with that special place reserved for these war profiteers.

Eli-

Do you know where this statue is? I seem to remember something very similar in the Pere Lachaise (SP) cemetery in Paris with all the monuments to the Resistance and the Holocaust.

cheney’s gonna have quite a time fittin’ KBR into that man-safe for the trip to his magic kingdom.

Q: What’s worse than a government monopoly?

A: A private monopoly.

I believe so, Yes.

soylent green is people. brought to you by KBR.

so true

There has been a lot of conspiracy going on between the contracting agencies and KBR. These contracts could have been busted up into smaller units allowing smaller companies to compete.

Once upon a time when I was a dependent wife of active duty USAF SSGT, my sister a captain and many other relatives where active in other services…… When the cook and the supply clerk(brother-in-law) were also active military they did their job, but when all hell broke loose they just grabbed their gear and they were fighting right next to the designated fighting forces…….

NOW with the outsourcing and contractors…… our military has to protect that cook or clerk because they are NOT part of the fighting force……

When the supporting services are part of the active duty military you get more bang for your buck ……. a toofer…….

KBR gang rape survivor testimony before Congress (with video and thoughts from Jane)

And then there’s TBogg’s take on it, back in the day.

Indeed it was KBR.

privitizing government services will in almost every example cost more then when done by the government, there is profit overhead when done privately and no profit overhead when done by the government

simple stuff

I liked what one of the senators said “If it’s too big to fail it’s too big to exist”
And that is the job of the government to fix.

Tsk tsk tsk. You forgot how much more efficient private industry is than govt. /s

That’s now one of the three great lies along with …

Yeah but the rich don’t get richer.

Private industry may be more efficient than government when rethugs are in charge. W proved that.

You missed the part about “no medical waste incinerator” and “local wild dogs raiding the burn pit and running around with human body parts in their mouths”:

Eller also accuses KBR of failing to maintain a medical incinerator at Joint Base Balad, which has been confirmed by two surgeons in interviews with Military Times about the Balad burn pit. Instead, according to the lawsuit and the physicians, medical waste, such as needles, amputated body parts and bloody bandages were burned in the open-air pit.

“Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains,” the lawsuit states. “The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths, to the great distress of the U.S. forces.”

Nice picture of the burn pit on the front page of Army Times, with burning waste being pushed around with a D7 or D8 bulldozer.

Hmmmm. So maybe a litmus test for CEOs and all managers above a certain level should be that they have voted D for some period of time. Ds obviously manage the federal govt better than Rs, and I’ll bet we can craft a study to show that the same thing is true for private industry. *g*

Think we can get a grant to conduct the study? *g*

If we get a banking license we can get the money from TARP.

Quote: Henry Kissinger

Military men are “dumb, stupid animals to used” as pawns for foreign policy.

Thanks for all your ocmments, perris. And, who is the biggest war profiteers of all? Carlyle Group (Poppy Bush, James Baker, that Saudi prince, etc..) CG made billions. BTW I read today that CG is cutting back and laying off 10% of their employees due to the economic meltdown. I hope they sink completely. Won’t happen, but it’s a good thought.

The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that “still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces.”

“They called it soup”

84 Charlie Mopic

musta been Tet

KBR has hired tens of thousands of people through 2 companies in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes.

Al Gore had a lot to do with the consolidation of contracts and more of them in his government efficiency program started in Clinton’s first term.

It is to avoid any withholding…..
-NO worksman comp
-NO matching SSI
-NO matching Medicare

These workers are working naked……. that is what you call contacted labor without the standard protections by being a “real” employee….

Is that really right? So everything IS really Clinton’s fault.

WHY the F*k would a Republican Senator try to push the Automakers into bankruptcy reorganization vs trying to save them whole?

We need to clean out the Caymen Islands! Goldman Sachs (Paulson’s clan) has 17 branches in Caymen. Caymen is famous for laundering dope money. Biggest nest of tax dodgers there is.

I’ve concluded that the Bush administration, the hired guns, Haliburton/KBR, Wall Street, etc., are simply the world’s biggest and most successful Mafia.

Bust the unions.

Corker is outlouding the plan right now.

looseheadprop upstairs

And it’s taking him forever to do it. He just luvs him the sound of his own voice, which to me is like nails on the blackboard.

Oh ya…… need a nap and the pillows are in the dryer……

One of the Democratic Senators was asking the UAW guy the percent of labor…. its 10%….. 10% fricking percent…….HOW much is CEO & exec saleries?

Nope, that would be your good friend Dick Cheney!

“In 1992, the Pentagon, then under Cheney’s direction, paid Brown & Root $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies — like itself — could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the firm an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, the company won a five-year logistics contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo, the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia. According to data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, between 1992 and 1999 the Pentagon paid Brown & Root over $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999, the Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company’s help in the Balkans, giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million. On top of that, the company was recently hired by the State Dept. to do a $100 million security upgrade on American embassies and consulates around the world.

When Cheney arrived at Halliburton, the company was doing less than $300 million per year in business with the Defense Department. By last year, according to the Baltimore Sun, that figure had grown to more than $650 million. During that same time period, the amount of money the company spent on lobbying soared. In 1996, Halliburton was spending less than $300,000 per year on lobbyists. Last year it spent $600,000.

Cheney also helped the company obtain federally subsidized loans, loan guarantees, and insurance. In the five years prior to Cheney’s arrival, Brown & Root garnered about $100 million in loans and guarantees from the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, two government agencies that sponsor overseas development by American companies. Since 1995, the company has received $1.5 billion worth of assistance from those same two entities. Whether those loans would have come to Halliburton without Cheney’s presence is impossible to say. But some critics believe Cheney’s trips through the revolving door between government and business are improper.”

http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-28…..ture2.html