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KBR water makes US troops in Iraq sick

news.yahoo.com — Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

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  • ppjsmith, on 03/09/2008, -0/+64I watched this video over 6 months ago that documents KBR lack of taking care of the troops water.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=QeIxHQ-lkuM
    • amrom, on 03/09/2008, -1/+10Yes, this was brought before at least 10 months ago. The film maker was brought to Congress to show a 4 min clip of the "Iraq for Sale" film and the Republicans blocked it. Robert Greenwald, the director, did testify before Congress. There were also other pieces of damning evidence of KBR and Haliburton's greed in the film. You can go on YouTube and look up "Iraq for Sale". KBR had just about everything outsourced to them, laundry, electronics repair, etc. and we are being raped for their services. To make matters worse Haliburton/KBR relocated its base of operations outside of the US to escape from taxation and other legal issues. We need to put a stop payment on those checks and stop providing security for these guys.
    • amrom, on 03/10/2008, -0/+3This is a link to the filmmaker's site. http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/649-iraq-for-sale-vi ...
  • dxgg, on 03/09/2008, -14/+30The master plan is revealed: Slow down the military's progress and prolong their presence in Iraq (thereby making more money for certain US bigwigs) by giving the troops dysentery.
    • whatthefu, on 03/09/2008, -5/+18Uh, I don't think it's one big conspiracy. I think KBR is just completely incompetent.
      • slaizer, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1I doubt they're imcompetent. They just don't give a damn. They're too busy bathing in their tubs of cash.
    • masterm1nd, on 03/09/2008, -7/+7Based on?
    • Stevanoski, on 03/09/2008, -14/+13Tin hats for sale, get your red hot tin hats for sale.
    • Picaroon, on 03/09/2008, -4/+6Dugg for satire. I hope you weren't serious.
      • dxgg, on 03/09/2008, -0/+6No, of course not. I like my humor like my martinis.
        • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -1/+3Whew! Any other site, I would have been sure...
    • mcquitty, on 03/09/2008, -6/+2You all are wrong. This is to punish the puppy killers. Every soldier does it, you know.
  • lhbaker, on 03/09/2008, -2/+56KBR probably owns the latrines, too, and collects $1,000 every time a soldier takes a *****.
  • croush1211, on 03/09/2008, -2/+45Clearly we need to provide these companies with some more income so that they can provide better quality content!
    • e36wheelman, on 03/09/2008, -1/+6That comment brings a smile to my face. Some people on Digg still understand sarcasm. Dugg up.
      • BaronSamedi242, on 03/09/2008, -1/+6I agree with the original poster. We need to send that money IMMEDIATELY without bothering with stuff like oversight, or accountability, or even TENDERING the contract.
  • Sassmo, on 03/09/2008, -7/+11I think this Digg would have been more effective if the title would have identified that it's not even the drinking water that's making them sick.
    • SirMolle, on 03/09/2008, -9/+11Exactly WHAT PART OF "Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company," don't you understand?
      Oh Wait your KBR stock might take a dip if this gets out .. right?
      • Dan137exe, on 03/09/2008, -3/+16Did you even read the article?

        "The problems did not extend to troops' drinking water, but rather to water used for washing, bathing, shaving and cleaning."
        • WaltDismal, on 03/09/2008, -1/+6This is a continuation of a past problem with KBR. Previously, they used unfiltered river water to supply our troops with drinking water. Many were getting sick from e coli bacteria. After past news attention, KBR finally began treating the drinking water as they had been paid to do originally. But they still provided the SAME dirty water for other uses. So, how can you shave without getting some of the water on your lips? And it was the same feces-contaminated river water. So thank KBR's political connections for this no-bid, no oversight fiasco.
  • theNazz, on 03/09/2008, -4/+46Gore Vidal was right about everything. Why isn't anybody in DC challenging these ***** up no bid contracts? Because they are ALL on the ***** take.
    • CazMo, on 03/09/2008, -0/+7Thats why they need so much money! it's expensive to pay off a majority of congress.
    • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -0/+0He was? There was a coup after the 2006 election?
  • pintomp3, on 03/09/2008, -8/+6support the troops!
    • masterm1nd, on 03/09/2008, -3/+18exploit the troops!
    • metalkills, on 03/09/2008, -6/+0its sad that you retards digg down the positive comment and digg up the negative one... idiots...
    • amrom, on 03/09/2008, -1/+2How do you propose to support them? Ribbons won't help in this case, removing KBR and Haliburton from the job will. Calling Rush Limbaugh attention to this would help since he is a big supporter of our troops. I'm curious to see what he would do with the facts.
  • dcmusicfusion, on 03/09/2008, -5/+35How do you get water wrong!?!?!
    • saxreturns, on 03/09/2008, -1/+11H2O2?
    • sockpuppets, on 03/09/2008, -1/+7Insurgent hydrogen.
    • ralphthemagi, on 03/09/2008, -1/+3We take the quality of our water here in the US for granted—and to a ridiculous level. Tap water here in the US is among some of the best in the world (including bottled water). In most of the 3rd world people getting sick and dying as a result of something in the water is very high. It's probably one of the highest indirect causes of death in the world.

      In a desert environment you don't have native water supplies, so you have to import water from somewhere else and then recycle and treat what you do have. It isn't easy. There are a lot of places something can go wrong, and if it slips passed QA, you are going to potential end up with some sick people.

      Travel anywhere outside the US outside of maybe Australia, Canada, England and a few other European countries, and there's a decent chance you might actually get sick from tap water there which contains bacteria in amounts your body simply isn't used to.

      I guess my point is: getting water "wrong" is very, very easy.
      • adooga, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1You can take almost any water in the world and throw some chlorine in it and it's safe to drink.
        The only way to ***** this up is to not throw chlorine in it.
    • amrom, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3You simply don't treat the water with chlorine, fake the test results, and take the money.
  • gypsi, on 03/09/2008, -5/+18bush/cheney spare no expense to line their own pockets
  • Picaroon, on 03/09/2008, -10/+7Cheney is surely behind this evil conspiracy. The NWO loves making people sick with water--it's one of their primary tactics!
    • amrom, on 03/10/2008, -2/+1FWIW, Cheney was on the board of Halliburton.
      • hurt911gen, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1That has nothing to do with anything. Stop making useless comments that lead to nowhere.
  • b3owolf, on 03/09/2008, -8/+3I'm sorry but you seemed to miss the part about once owned by former company. I think Dick Cheney is creepy as hell but at least read EVERYTHING before attacking the Bush Camp.
    • Dawnrazor, on 03/09/2008, -0/+7KBR was still owned by Haliburton when this happened. Chaney still gets $5 million a year pension from Haliburton who got the gig on a no bid contract.



  • ashnbell, on 03/09/2008, -2/+15I wonder how much they're charging the US taxpayer per gallon to poison the US troops? Probably a ridiculously high price if the prices of the other services they supply are anything to go by.

    If only the US government had put the contract out to tender... I'm pretty sure they could have got dangerous water to drink from local sources at a much reduced cost.
  • Ron417, on 03/09/2008, -1/+3What did Cheney do now?
    • annmed, on 03/10/2008, -0/+2If you read the first sentence you'll see the answer to your question --nothing.
  • PHiZ187, on 03/09/2008, -1/+31Good thing Bush just signed an executive order protecting overseas contracts from liability when they defraud the government. Gotta keep daddy Bush's investments in KBR/Haliburton protected.
    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieXNQKlfOClbz6j ...
    • amrom, on 03/10/2008, -0/+0Not all of these investments are sound. The Carlyle investment fund has not been doing well. With all this corruption going on how could they mess that up?
      • heystoopid, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1It's the cost of bribes needed to build their mostly over budget palaces !
  • dizilbdog, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3KBR probably makes sure the Oil is better for you than the water...
  • Alex2, on 03/09/2008, -2/+13KBR water. You're being waterboarded in it!
  • Azap, on 03/09/2008, -0/+8An army marches on its stomach
    • amrom, on 03/10/2008, -0/+2These kids are being told to hydrate themselves daily with gallons of water a day. They are screwed. Here's my solution. Invite KBR and Halliburton reps to a meeting and provide them with their water from Iraq and ask them to drink it.
      • AnarkeIncarnate, on 03/10/2008, -0/+5only instead of ask, shoot them if they don't. Then after they do, shoot them anyhow.
    • caleuche, on 03/11/2008, -0/+0This isn't the drinking water but rather the hygiene water used for showers and so on. Signs everywhere here warn us not to brush our teeth with this water but use bottled water instead, but naturally some people still do it.

  • petrodollar, on 03/09/2008, -5/+8Blackwater, etc. contractors are very well-armed. They even have their own helicopter fleet. They mostly get killed by IEDs and ambushes. For whatever reasons, they suck at avoiding them. For example, three western contractors escorting some dumb American bitch from a Sunni political office were ambushed as they left the building. All were slaughtered. They're a bunch of red-state, bible-thumping hicks though, so I don't really care. No, I'm not a liberal, I just think it's funny when pious people get theirs at the hands of the infidel. Where's your God now? I bet your four-year-old daughter even prayed for you, too.

    And lest anyone think my feelings are unique on this point, note that other contractors hate the Blackwater guys. Blackwater is the whole reason Fallujah blew up in April 2004. Frontline interviewed the Marine Corps commander in charge of Fallujah back then. He blamed Blackwater for ***** up his entire pacification plan for the area.

    Anecdotally, when Blackwater takes fire, other contractors don't help them. That's how bad it is.
  • thestaton, on 03/09/2008, -0/+10I've used this *****, and I'll be the first to tell you what they are saying is true.
    • amrom, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1My solution is to invite KBR and Halliburton reps to a hearing and provide them with their water from Iraq and ask them to drink it.
  • BossKey, on 03/09/2008, -0/+23And of course, if you're a woman it doesn't end there. After you get sick from bad water, on your way to recuperating in your quarters you have to deal with the 20 horny KBR staff who won't be prosecuted for their actions.
    • Typhoon2009, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1They can be prosecuted... with bullets.
      • BossKey, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1Sure, but...ask any victim if that "prosecution" has ever happened, is happening, or is ever going to happen.
    • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -0/+0Sure, but she's asking for it.
  • heystoopid, on 03/09/2008, -0/+5"Kill Burn & Loot" is their well known correct acronym !
  • Berkana, on 03/09/2008, -0/+26Let me get this straight: they dodge hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes using cayman island shell corporations, hire Nepalese and Philipino workers so they can pay them less, offer utter crap to our soldiers, get no bid contracts, support candidates that want to prolong the war, and the vice president owns a fat wad of their stock and does nothing to improve the situation. Why the hell are they (chiefmost among them being Cheney) not in prison‽ Why the hell are my taxes paying for this while they dodge taxes after making billions‽
    • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -2/+0Every multinational dodges us corporate taxes by moving offshore. They'd be stupid not to. It doesn't bother me that much, since it's double taxation anyway.
    • rbowes, on 03/10/2008, -0/+3Why aren't they in prison? Because you guys let them run your country. They never will go to prison either, because the next president would just pardon them.
      • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -0/+0Actually, they're not in prison because they haven't done anything illegal. At least, nothing illegal anyone can prove.
    • jawnboy, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1Because every time someone tries to raise the alarm they are shouted down by the "Oh noes tin-foil-hats" brigade and all of the problems are marginalized and then every time the people are getting to the point where they have really had enough there are elections. Of course no one pays attention to the fact that the only people that get elected are all related to each other, for instance I bet you can't guess who Obama is related to? No one pays attention to the fact that the major media basically chooses who gets to become "serious candidates" and that the majority of the major media is controlled by six companies and that the major shareholders in these companies are a small group and many are related to the people that end up running America. But don't mind me I must be wearing a tin-foil-hat.
      • croush1211, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1Who is Obama related to? Are you referring to 11th cousin, George W. Bush, or 8th cousin, Dick Cheney?

        Mr Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, are the same as the vice-president's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents?!

        For all I know, Paris Hilton is my 4th cousin, twice removed. I hope it doesn't change the way you feel about me.
        • jawnboy, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1Bush and Obama are eighth cousins, Cheney and Obama ninth cousins, John Kerry and Bush ninth cousins, Princess Diana and Bush eleventh cousins. According to Professor Steven Pinker at Harvard; Bush is a cousin to Al Gore, Bush is thirteenth cousin to Queen Elizabeth. According to Burke's Peerage Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Blythe) is; Bob Dole's cousin, related to almost the entire British Royal family, related to Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Nixon and George Bush.
          The point I was trying to make is that the same blue-blooded rich bastards that have been running things in Britain for centuries have used their money and influence to stack the deck in their favour in the New World as well. One or two relationships would be coincidence, but if you look almost all of our "great leaders" are related. If we were living in true level playing field democracy how could that happen?
          • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -2/+0First of all, the US isn't a democracy. It's a republic. If you think that's not an important distinction, remember back to 2000 when Bush won the election without winning the popular vote. Also, democracy doesn't guarantee or even imply a level playing field. All it does is allow us some measure of choice in who runs the country.

            And third, this has quite a bit less meaning than you're attributing. Look at it this way: Let's say your parents are completely unrelated. And their parents were, and theirs, etc. Back for thirty generations, which is only about 600 years. Simple math gives you a bit over a billion ancestors.

            But at the time there were less than a half billion people in the entire world, and that includes population centers that aren't likely to mingle genetically. So the reality is if you go back far enough, you're going to find yourself related to pretty much anyone who has ancestors that come from the same part of the world. Once you start talking about 8th or 10th cousins, it's no surprise to find out two people in the same geographical area are related. The fact that Pinker went through the trouble to trace exact lineages in this case says a lot more about his lack of mathematical ability than his political acumen.
          • croush1211, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1... Adam and Eve must have set us up for this.
  • petrodollar, on 03/09/2008, -0/+3http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1583 ...

    "I called up an American contractor in Baghdad who runs convoys from Kuwait every day and asked him just how much damage."Let me put it this way,"he said."In Basra today the currency is the Iranian toman, not the Iraqi dinar."He said his convoys now are forced to pay a 40% surcharge to Shi'a militias and Iraqi police in the south, many of whom are affiliated with IRG"

    Uh-oh! Let's think about what is illegal here - it's clearly a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and very possibly implicates all those "terrorism funding" laws. It's probable that this blood money is used to attack and kill coalition troops.

    Why isn't Bush out front calling for prosecutions?
    • digindrivefast, on 03/09/2008, -0/+1Page is gone. Do you have another link?
      • petrodollar, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1583 ...
        • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -2/+0That link is a year old. And from Time, which is pretty unreliable.
          • petrodollar, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1"That link is a year old."

            So? The statute of limitations hasn't run on the CRIMES I'm talking about. Would you go easy on John Wayne Gacy today because he killed and raped dozens of little boys in the 1970s instead of in 2008? Whose side are you on?

            "And from Time, which is pretty unreliable."

            Are you saying Time fabricated quotes from American commanders? That's a pretty tall charge. Better have some evidence to back it up.

            Also, in case you haven't head, a large part of our recent pacification efforts have involved massive payoffs to the insurgents who were punking the troops since 2003. Are you denying that maybe some of those payments weren't quite proper and that maybe some of that money didn't fall into the hands of people who are sworn enemies of America?
  • somedorkygamer, on 03/09/2008, -3/+5needless to say dick is corrupt
  • xoxuxox, on 03/09/2008, -0/+15http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
    "We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated," said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, the official for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait.

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/3 ...
    Allen conceded the water for showers was not chlorinated, but said military regulations required water for such uses to be chlorinated only "if prescribed by the command surgeon."
    Jeffrey Griffiths, a professor of public health and medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, scoffed at that assertion. "You don't shower with water that's not chlorinated — at least," Griffiths said. "It's called common sense."

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=HAL&t=5y
    Five year chart of Halliburton stock.
  • gplpark92, on 03/09/2008, -0/+6another reason why we shouldnt be there
  • MadN, on 03/09/2008, -0/+10With friends like these.....
  • keppj0nes, on 03/09/2008, -2/+4Wow with all of the pathetic US military news stories, foreign nations really have the upper hand if we ever go to a real war.
  • gak001, on 03/09/2008, -1/+3I saw the headline and thought, Have the troops really been in the desert THAT long?

    This doublespeak is getting ridiculous. They harp on supporting the troops and this is the follow through!? They're all gung ho about waterboarding and REAL ID, and yet a congressional investigation sting was able to get approval to purchase radioactive material four weeks after submitting an application using only a P.O. Box.

    All I can say is WTF? and thank God January 2008 is getting closer.
    • blazes816, on 03/10/2008, -2/+1Are you traveling faster than the speed of light?
    • roho76, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1Yup. All our problems are going to be solved in Jan. '08'. What a joke.
    • d03boy, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1january 2008 is past, my friend
  • jdepp, on 03/09/2008, -1/+1Am I the only one who read KBR as Potassium Bromide? I thought they kept that for the navy.
  • mlmurray, on 03/10/2008, -4/+4Let me translate the description: "American troops in Iraq were made sick from water supplied by a contractor no longer owned by a company no longer associated with V.P. Dick Cheney."

    Pathetic.
    • tsotha, on 03/10/2008, -2/+0Yeah. I bust out laughing when I read that.
  • Deathfrogg, on 03/10/2008, -0/+4Welcome to the conservative method of governance. Take it over by threat of force, bleed it dry then burn it down.

    This is the foundation of the conservatives entire political and economic strategy.
  • hechtal, on 03/10/2008, -0/+5I was at one of the sites in 2004, when we didn't have water for a week because they tested it and found cholera. When we did have water, it smelled terrible, and we weren't stupid - the Iraqi trucks would dredge from the Euphrates a few miles away, drive on base, and fill up the tanks at the shower.

    I gladly endured many a baby-wipe bath, and brushed my teeth and drank only bottled water.

    I can't speak for the rest of my team though, one out of 26 of us got really sick with some bad diarrhea type illness, and the day after we got home to the U.S. another collapsed and almost died, spending months in the hospital for a brain infection. Many of us suffered some weird skin ailments. ***** KBR and the Military.
  • londubh, on 03/10/2008, -0/+4They oughta serve up some of that KBR 'treated' water at the next White House formal dinner.
  • PioneerKing, on 03/10/2008, -0/+4Republicans please stand up - this is unacceptable. We must not allow this to happen. We are supposed to be the party that supports our troops. We still have troops complaining about lack of armored vehicles, faulty equipment and a lack of flack jackets. We have troops returning home and have to fight for medical care and mental health care. We have our foreign companies building our aircraft and helicopters when jobs are needed here. Republicans, please, lets stand up for what is right our troops deserve the best, at minimum we should be able to provide them with clean, safe drinking water.
  • hdrkid, on 03/10/2008, -0/+5The only thing those crooks care about is making money. They constantly cut corners to make money. They could care less if troops die. They only talk about outsourcing and downsizing.
  • annmed, on 03/10/2008, -3/+0So, there was a problem with a company that is no longer owned by a company that Vice President Cheney no longer has anything to do with. Hmmm. That's quite a smoking gun right there. I'm really impressed at how many of the commenters see Dick Cheney and stop reading, just go into default "he's the Anti-Christ" mode. Kind of undermines their credibility, just a bit.
  • kbenoit001, on 03/10/2008, -4/+0Important to note that this was back in 2006. As a former KBR employee (spent 13 months in Anbar Province), I think there are a lot of misconceptions about what is going on out there.

    I'm not defending the system out there, but there is just a fundamental lack of understanding of the process involved in these "no-bid" contracts. I watched "Iraq for Sale". It is a propaganda piece that uses disgruntled employees as mouthpieces for what is going on out there. If anyone really wants to know about how your money is being spent out there, email me at kbenoit001@gmail.com. I would be happy to shed some light on it for you.
  • mk1gti, on 03/10/2008, -3/+1I think it could not be any more clear: KBR and Halliburton are working on behalf of Al Quida and Osama Bin Laden to kill or insure the troops while destroying the US economy, of course because republicans support them so much they are also allied with Al Quida and Bin Laden so hell, let's go get them bastards, end this war and we can all go home! Kill KBR, Kill Halliburton, Kill their supporters! Everybody wins ! ! ! Cake for everyone ! ! !
  • chili555, on 03/10/2008, -3/+1Lemme see. You worked for Pizza Hut seven years ago, but then you quit. Pizza Hut sold me a pizza yesterday that made me hurl. So you are responsible and we are going to call you corrupt and throw you out of you current job at Burger King. Makes perfect sense, Diggers.
  • diggdallas, on 03/10/2008, -3/+1Thats OK. Next year Saint Obama can just pray over the water and it will not only be safe to drink, but also protect our soldiers from further harm.
  • choppergirl, on 03/10/2008, -1/+0You think this is bad, you should see the water Americans in their own country are drinking. On my last trip to America, I stopped in to buy some bottled water... some brand name Coca Cola I had never heard before, but I'd seen it everywhere so I thought it would be safe. UG, can you believe it, the water was brown, and it was bubbling like it was some kind of chemical toxic poison... my friend dared me to try it, so I did... blech... it was like... ug... what the hell is, this, like acid mixed with spoonfuls of sugar or something? It was like it was eating away at my teeth and stomach walls. Someone told me they have the same stuff in India, but they don't drink it, they spray it on their crops as a pesticide.

    I was like, and the government lets this stuff be sold to the public to drink??? All the other bottled water looked just as bad, weird colors and funny tasting and loaded with sugar and bubbling crap and toxic addictive caffeine.
  • kd1s, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1This has been all over the web for at least a year, and just now the MSM is picking up on it? There's a vid on YouTube of a guy who used to work for Halliburton explaining how he was in charge of water testing and how he was shocked at what was going on.
  • nickmv, on 03/10/2008, -2/+1OH NOEZS!!!!1!! "and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company," .....I'm sorry, RELEVANCE PLEASE? It's like "Oh *****, Dick Cheney at one point owned this company. He MUST be behind this then." Jesus *$@^ing Christ people...
  • Christerray, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1KBR may be managed by americans, but the legwork is done by TCNs and LNs - Third Country Nationals and Local nationals. Most are from Sri Lanka, India, Iraq, Uganda, etc.

    They ain't doing the job right. It ain't a conspiracy, and stop blaming America. But I can understand why they don't do their job to 100% efficiency. The get one day off a month and are stuck in country for 2 years.
  • ihatepaulspam, on 03/10/2008, -1/+1Only a libtard could somehow link this story to Cheney. He has not been involved in quite a while in this company.

    Oh yeah, keep up the civil war between Hillary and Obama, we love it.
  • seejunaid, on 03/10/2008, -1/+0What is KBR?
  • VitriolAndAngst, on 03/10/2008, -0/+1>> Just to add more fuel to the fire. Another note about KBR -- a subsidiary of Haliburton, and that is a subsidiary of the Carlysle Group -- the largest weapons dealer outside of a nation in the world, and has such august members as George Bush Sr, on it's board. KBR employees actually hire onto a shell company in the Caymen islands -- a foreign business, and thus, they don't collect Social Security or FICA taxes. They have gotten out of hundreds of billions of dollars in obligations that any American company would have to pay.

    Cheney, when not helping Asbestos companies get out of paying money, was making a good living before his stint as dictator support in the White House, made a tidy sum of money helping rich people move their assets to offshore banks. Yes, the truly wealthy don't pay anything for sucking America dry and lobbying for free trade -- make you feel good? In case you are worried about old Cheney and his billions -- oh, I'm sorry, you probably only see his millions because that's what the US banking system sees,... well anyway, he and good old George started moving their assets about two years ago to Dubai. It just brings to mind their future quote; "Nobody knew that planes could fly into buildings!" -- oh, I'm sorry, wrong quote of shock, here is the right one; "Nobody knew that unfettered business and globalization would crash the economy!"

    Wow, what a fortunate mistake their companies and their assets are outside the US. Along with the required reserve by banks for FDIC insurance -- what protects your bank account right now? Borrowed money that is backed by the taxpayer. So YOU are ultimately helping insure your own money. Feel better now?
  • mhmdkhamis, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0This has been all over the web for at least a year, and just now the MSM is picking up on it? There's a vid on YouTube of a guy who used to work for Halliburton explaining how he was in charge of water testing and how he was shocked at what was going on.

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