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Halliburton Slips Further Down The Barbarism Slope

firedoglake.com — And how about those Blackwater contractors responsible for shooting 17 Iraqis in Baghdad? Not to worry. If Order 17 doesn't get them off the hook, the State Department seems to have offered them legal immunity.

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  • EllieElliott, on 12/11/2007, -4/+12Jane asks "Why exactly were army doctors handing over a rape kit to Halliburton employees such that they could "lose" it? "
  • Patrickson, on 12/11/2007, -8/+10I can't say I'm surprised. Power corrupts...
  • MDKAOD, on 12/11/2007, -13/+16Front page yesterday. http://www.digg.com/politics/ABC_News_Victim_Gang_ ...
    You know...there is a similar story confirmation...does anybody even bother to check them? This is really causing me to come here less and less often.
    PLEASE FIX THIS DIGG. Several times a week is out of hand.
    • dzlpwr, on 12/11/2007, -7/+17Stop whining.
    • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 12/11/2007, -6/+3This isn't about Digg being broken. This is about self-hating anti-americans spamming an ALLEGED story to keep it on the front page.
      • MDKAOD, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2There are possible solutions to the duplicate story problem. They implemented a cross check on image hashes but they can't cross check text? I'm not a wizard with web design but something can be done better than what's currently happening.
    • drunkwally, on 12/11/2007, -6/+2There's a dig down button created especially for idiots like you.

      If you don't like it try CBS.com
  • faizal5k, on 12/11/2007, -5/+1Ohhh...Jem, Jem is truly barbaric, truly truly truly barbaric.
  • Neiliosullivan, on 12/11/2007, -4/+3Fellas this is just the way dig works, if a story is popular or gets spammed enough it shows up on the front page. Take comfort in the fact that some other duplicate story will soon bump this off of the front page.
    • bingobongony, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2The second reason for getting to the front page is correct. Popularity has nothing to do with getting to the front page anymore. And hasn't in over a year.
  • tumbler360, on 12/11/2007, -2/+17This privately financed army we're all supporting is going to haunt us for years. The american military may be doing an ok job of things but the only thing people will remember is what Blackwater did.
    • oldhick, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3Speak for yourself. Plenty will remember our soldiers and the sacrifices that they have made. Unless you simply love hating on the US, then I agree. Those douche bags will remember Blackwater and bring it up over and over again. Long after they're gone, it'll still be political leverage for some one some where.
  • zubi, on 12/11/2007, -12/+3you guys need to go jerk off and let out some steam.
    • bulkhater, on 12/11/2007, -1/+8Let me get this straight, the following causes you to "jerk off"?

      Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

      "Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.

      she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.

      "It felt like prison," says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming "20/20" investigation. "I was upset; I was curled up in a ball on the bed; I just could not believe what had happened."
      • yutt, on 12/11/2007, -2/+7This isn't doing it for me.

        Could I get a more detailed description of the shipping container?
  • inkyblue2, on 12/11/2007, -0/+4dick cheney, what is good in life?
    • themonkman, on 12/11/2007, -0/+4Dick Cheney: To crush the Iraqis, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
  • ZenMojo, on 12/11/2007, -2/+9I think I'm becoming numb to the insanity.

    ...

    Naw, this is still ***** up no matter how I look at it.
    • dinostabOMG, on 12/11/2007, -3/+2It is. But let's not forget that this woman was working for KBR - she is far from innocent.
      • ordig, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3Agreed. She was probably making six figures for working in such a high risk environment, basically making her a war profiteer in my eyes. Ironic though it wasnt the iraqis that were the risk, it was her coworkers.
  • fairley7, on 12/11/2007, -4/+7Rape. Torture. Murder. It's the American Way, at least according to Bush-Cheney.
  • 2612, on 12/11/2007, -5/+2Is firedoglake the new rawstory??
  • CheeseburgerBro, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3"The time has come: execute Order Sixty-six."
    • foofightrs777, on 12/11/2007, -2/+1No, it's Wing attack plan R time!
  • randomerratum, on 06/10/2008, -1/+7If this is the kind of thing that happens when you privatize efforts in a war, what happens when you privatize firefighters?
    Doesn't all this make you wonder..... what else?
  • BannedTwice, on 12/11/2007, -10/+2Buuurrrriiieeed
  • bradfred, on 12/11/2007, -3/+6I noticed a larger number of people that are just blind to the fact that this administration has taken all of us for a ride.
    This is our Country and we need to take it back from corruption and injustice. This is up to all of us, so I pose this question to you.
    How and where do we start. This story like many others prove my point.
    • oldhick, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah! This story could happen under any administration, but don't let that stop you. Here's what I'll do. Like any good Digger, I'll continue to read story have story of rehashed news, cherry pick all the bad ***** I can muster, and then spew it all over Digg. I'll ignore that this has been going on for years and years and make high and mighty speeches about how the US sucks and the world should hate us because of Bush/Cheney. I'll support the troops but not really because they rape, murder, torture, and humiliate people. I'll call any intelligence ***** that says other countries and groups of people might be aggressive and but I'll believe the exact same group when they say "all is well in the world".

      But most importantly I'll get called a Troll for responding to your stupid trolling. How and where do we start??? By VOTING. Thats where you start. If you keep voting in the same Dems and the same Repubs over and over and over again, how in hell can you be surprised by the results?????
  • scorchedearth, on 12/11/2007, -1/+9Money laundering, drug smuggling, now rape cover ups.

    Nothing is too low for Halliburton it seems.
  • robin1943, on 12/11/2007, -3/+6You critics of the Iraq war have a right to show your views, but at least get your facts right. Blackwater has nothing what so ever to do with Haliburton, it is an independent company. And since Hailburton has divested itself of Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), Haliburton it is not even involved in the contracting to the military in Iraq.
    • Dan137exe, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Thank you. Kellogg, Brown & Root used to be a subsidiary of Halliburton, but that changed a little less than a year ago.
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 12/11/2007, -6/+2This this lawsuit is purely a political move. That's why they named Halliburton instead of KBR. Half of her allegations are too off the wall to be true. Army doctors don't report to KBR. Hell KBR is an INFRASTRUCTURE contractor. They do mess halls and motor pools, they don't have security guards.
    • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Let me qualify this statement a bit. KBR does hiresecurity guards, but they do not run security on military bases.
  • look4alec, on 12/11/2007, -6/+1She is hot but honestly the whole rape thing is kindof a turnoff.
    • apetrie, on 12/11/2007, -0/+5what the ***** is wrong with you?
    • steelystan, on 12/11/2007, -0/+0Are you trying to sound like scum or just making a horrible joke?
  • EllieElliott, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1
    look4alec, that's something a pigdog would say
  • LLamaStar, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1*fap* *fap* *fap*
  • steelystan, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1Wow this story is just horrible. It really goes to show how corrupt the authority in this country is. Thank god I work for Lockheed Martin and not Halliburton.
  • Niteryder, on 12/12/2007, -0/+0Why are these people not prosecuted under the RICO act including their henchmen in the State Department
  • lolo2007, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0If this is the kind of thing that happens when you privatize efforts in a war, what happens when you privatize firefighters?
    Doesn't all this make you wonder..... what else?
  • lolo2007, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0If this is the kind of thing that happens when you privatize efforts in a war, what happens when you privatize firefighters?
    Doesn't all this make you wonder..... what else?

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