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- wynja, on 12/04/2008, -2/+93Here's a big ***** you to the vice-president, Halliburton, and KBR!!!!!!
- beahmad, on 12/05/2008, -0/+76"I went too far. I overseasoned it... Men were keeling over all around me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming... I sent sixteen of my own men to the latrines that night! They were just boys!"
- llamarama7, on 12/04/2008, -0/+36Not the least bit surprised. KBR's well past three strikes by now...
- RogerStrong, on 12/05/2008, -1/+34Popular history tells us that Britain looted India. But in reality Britain *lost* money on India, and all her possessions. What was happening was the East India Company was looting the British treasury with the help of a few paid politicians.
This is what Haliburton is doing. You know - charge the government two million dollars to rebuild a school, then pay a local contractor ten thousand to do it. Entire cargo pallettes of money - billions of dollars - missing. Vice President Cheney is the former CEO of Haliburton, and still owns considerable stock in it. Cheney's war has made him very rich indeed.
And KBR is doing it too.
That btw, it what the Iraq war is about. They'll NEVER get enough oil of Iraq to pay for the war. Iraq will remain part of OPEC.
It's not about oil. Looting the treasury is where the real money is. - meekrob, on 12/04/2008, -1/+28He allegedly had nightmares of the hand and dog. Is that part of the law suit?
- built2spill, on 12/05/2008, -0/+25And they got rich doing it.
- locojones, on 12/05/2008, -1/+25The only reason your chow hall resembled a Las Vegas buffet is because of the cost-plus no-contract kickbacks. The more KBR spends, the more they make. So why would they bother watching costs by being fiscally responsible for their meals? If they were required to cover their own expenses, you can damn well guarantee it would be back to hot dogs and grilled cheese. It's the military, not a resort hotel.
The whole thing is a fraud perpetrated on the backs of the American taxpayer. - sockpuppets, on 12/05/2008, -0/+22When last seen the dog was armed and dangerous.
- mrcaulfield, on 12/04/2008, -1/+23This might be one of the most bizarre stories I've ever read in my life.
- sockpuppets, on 12/05/2008, -0/+21Could I get a hand with this?
- WordsnCollision, on 12/04/2008, -1/+21Talk about biting the hand that feeds it...
- GeeksSpeakFont, on 12/04/2008, -1/+20that is pretty gross!
- lolwaffle, on 12/05/2008, -3/+19Given the choice of KBR chow halls or eating MRE's, I guarantee troops will side with KBR. I deployed twice in the army, and I ate better in the sandbox than I did at home! You should see the chow halls on bases here in the U.S. where soldiers cook. Can you say rock hard grilled cheese as the main coarse? It sucks being a single soldier with a meal card... With KBR we had steak, lobster, root beer floats, etc... A few bad incidents isn't going to change anything. If anything did change, it'd be a similar company with a different name.
- TheAlkhemist, on 12/05/2008, -0/+16Frank Costanza would be appalled.
- PhilLesh69, on 12/05/2008, -0/+16Nobody seemed to take notice in 2005 or 2006 when soldiers were reporting that KBR was charging the government $18 a plate, so that if a soldier took his food back to his housing unit, and took a second paper plate to cover the food so it wouldn't get sand on it, the government was being charged $36 for that soldier's meal.
Nobody seemed to care that soldiers were reporting that KBR was charging the government $100 a case for soda. Most people dismissed it saying "yeah, but it's expensive to ship all that soda from the US and convoy it into Iraq" and then just fell silent when told "but they're buying the soda from a local Iraqi bottler, for about what a grocery store in the US buys soda for, and charging the government $100 for a case.
Nobody seemed to care that a documentary in 2006 or 2007 showed a compound in Kuwait where KBR and Halliburton secretaries living in trailers 300 feet from the offices they worked in, each had brand new SUVs even though they never left the compound and were ferried to the airport by military convoy. Since they were all operating on "cost-plus" contracts, it made sense to KBR and Halliburton to buy top-of-the-line SUVs at $50k+ each for every person they had in country, even if they were never even sat in or the engines never even started.
Or all the stories of empty trucks on convoys, or how they would take the oil filters off of trucks so the engines would burn up and they could charge the government for yet another truck. Or how they would blow up a truck if it got a flat tire, and charge the govt, etc.
How about the water purification contracts where they just pumped euphrates river water into camps and didn't even bother to at least put some chlorine or anything in it?
Or how about this: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b9b_1227815237
Why would anyone care about this, if they didn't care about all the other blatant examples of war-profiteering? - jgzman, on 12/05/2008, -0/+15Having been military, but never deployed, and a taxpayer, (a little bit, at least) I am 100% happy that deployed troops should get good eating. I don't want to hear ***** about serving bad food, though. That's no good, no good at all.
I would also prefer that it be paid for properly, rather than as a way of making jackass companies money. - kplo, on 04/01/2009, -1/+15Looks like it: "In addition to recurring skin lesions and stomach pain, according to the lawsuit, Eller also continues to have nightmares of the wild dog with an arm hanging from its mouth."
- dannyboy3020, on 12/05/2008, -0/+14There are only a handful of jokes you can make about this subject.
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -1/+15So our troops go to Iraq to protect KBR business and this is that they get in return? Talk about getting used.
- aclockwork3, on 12/05/2008, -0/+13I wonder how many people in the Bush administration are financially tied to this company.
- Junior612, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12One time my mom fed me rancid couscous.
She told me it was just broccoli flavored. - inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12KBR's had a hand in everything, when their employees aren't raping women, you can find them shooting up Iraqis and acting like Rambo.
- fightingforair, on 12/05/2008, -0/+11I love where this is going to go as usual.
The blame game. Instead of the whole company getting a smack, the bosses will blame the underlings, the underlings will blame the food providers, etc. etc.
Thus starting that stupid cycle.
KBR, as a whole, ***** you. - erasedgod, on 12/05/2008, -0/+10I can't think of any offhand.
- PhilLesh69, on 12/05/2008, -0/+10Here's a nice 7 minute video from a soldier at a Forward Operating Base that has a 39,000 sq ft PX with designer clothes, designer watches, big screen TVs, computers, and a car dealership. He also mentions how KBR built showers have killed 11 soldiers due to faulty electrical wiring, and shows the "clean" water KBR is charging the govt for.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b9b_122781523
This is the movie, "Iraq for Sale" that lays out the entire contractor/war-profiteering problems in Iraq:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-662148672 ... - inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+9Oh, and people accuse me of hating our troops simply for opposing the war? Last I checked, I have never served a single U.S. troop rancid food.
- thayle, on 12/05/2008, -0/+9You mean *rimshot*?
- crapuccino, on 12/05/2008, -0/+9KBR. Supporting the troops all the way to the latrine.
- liquisoft, on 12/05/2008, -1/+10Unacceptable.
- johndi, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8So, that's what's in the meatloaf!
- kiwiboyus, on 12/05/2008, -3/+11Our tax dollars hard at work. Can we please see as much outrage about this on digg as we do about our taxes paying for Universal Health Care?
- theImmodiumGuy, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8KBR still served the stuff because they're cheap bastards who only care about the bottom line and are trying to maximize the profit they squeeze from the US Government, even at the expense of the troops. These are the same ***** who put faulty electrical wiring in the barracks because they were cutting corners and our troops get shocked on a regular basis. War profiteers are the absolute lowest form of life, and Haliburton and KBR are the lowest of the low.
- SimplyPerfect, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8we should stop privatizing this damn war. we have people in the army that have the same jobs as this companies that do it for less of our tax dollars. hell we dont need someone to serve us food that gets paid $100,000 a year!!!!
- MemorabIename, on 12/05/2008, -4/+12Get you outta here, boy. For one thing, I don't even live in the universe. I live in America, thank you. For the deucey, anytime I pay with my hard earned money for somebody else it's called Kommunism, by God, except for when I'm paying for our boys over in goddamned ***** Perisia. That's patriotism and you liberals wouldn't know nothing about that unless it were for Komerade Linen.
I know y'all Diggtards/Libtards won't like it none, but we're in America. You can't dig me down. Ever heard of the first amendment? I have the right to say whatever I want, as long as it ain't pornographic or moderately lascivious and before 11:00PM. - alais, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Setting the bar high eh?
- PhilLesh69, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8More than we'll ever know.
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8Why not also include the president, himself, and his inner circle of neocon advisors/Israeli agents who have been lobbying for this war for forty years?
- SifuMoKung, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7*****' amen.
- FasterGun, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8The right-wing idiot wouldnt use a word like lascivious ever in his entire life. Other than that though, 3/5.
- PhilLesh69, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Yeah, just one case. How about the at least 11 soldiers who were electrocuted to death while taking showers?
How come they can provide first-world shopping and fast food that soldiers pay out-of-pocket for, but the government contracted food-service is cutting corners in order to maximize profits? Explain that.
Watch this video in it's entirety, then see if you believe your comment above isn't myopic and naive?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b9b_1227815237 - inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Not only is KBR unpatriotic, but incompetent to boot.
- tits0Rgtfo, on 12/05/2008, -2/+9Well seeing how the military is there on the front line, why not give them something decent to eat? When I was there I really didn't want my last meal to be a hard as a rock burrito from an MRE. And if you don't know alot of stuff is donated. 2 times there, talked with KBR, and the cooks from India.
- arcticblue, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6It doesn't surprise me really. I went to Iraq twice and both times we had to take showers in trailers that KBR maintained (they supplied the "water" as well too). I always thought it was weird that flies would me MORE attracted to me after a shower. One day I went in to the shower trailer and let some of the water pool up in my hands. It bubbled. Clean water should not bubble or be a light shade of brown. Turns out they were mixing clean water with dirty water for us to shower in to save money. Even grosser is what would come out of the drains. If you're very lucky, you'd get a shower that actually drains, but more often than not, the shower stall would turn in to a little swimming pool and anything the previous guy "released" in to the water would come back up and swim around your feet. Shower shoes did little to help when the water was over my ankles.
- Volatile36, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Why won't anything happen? They have (had) too many friends in high places.
Maybe we'll see some pre-emptive pardons going out in this next month that will include some of these *****. ***** sucks.
No one should be able to get away with making our troops suffer for a few dollars more. - PWoT, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5So far it's just one guy claiming this is what he saw. Let's find out the facts before we declare guilt. Same as an any case.
- twoheadedboy00, on 12/05/2008, -1/+6Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress. You plead everything you can think of when you file a law suit, they aren't being frivolous, it's just a good idea when spending the money on litigation to set up a lot of claims b/c what looks like your best claim might fail. Redundancy.
/law - jc730, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5If it's ***** up, you know KBR had a hand in it.
- digggggggggg, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5I'm sorry I can't tell if you're crazy or just really good at being sarcastic.
- Swivelstick, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5"If anything did change, it'd be a similar company with a different name." Shouldn't the military be looking after it?
- PhilLesh69, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Actually, they are being quite competent in raping and pillaging the american taxpayer.
KBR has taken war-profiteering to a new and unmatched level. -
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