Want to see how Halliburton spent your tax money?

I think I just threw up.

Unbelievable, huh? I can't understand why there are still people who are NOT outraged.

Elizabeth- It is VERY sickening!
Sandy-I have been outraged for so long, I'm just happy that this stuff is finally coming out!

It just gets more ridiculous every day.

Can't blame them for stealing like they do, it is our corrupt goverment allowing it to happen! If I could charge our government 100$ for a load of laundry, I'd go out and buy a hundred washers and dryers tomorrow! Why should we pay for accomodations for Haliburton employees? We should make them stay in tents just like our soldiers.

Treason is the word that comes to my mind. Not for what is being said here, as this is an American right to discuss and to be appalled by what is happening to this ONCE great country. The fascists in this administration, and those who support them, should pay the ultimate price for their treason against the people of America. Disgusting!!

If the IRS can make me save receipts and be accountable for every expense for my business, how in the world can Halliburton get away with this???? They should have to pay back every penny that they can't account for and be sued for fraud for every penny that was wasted.

Hilarious spin on some already thoroughly investigated items. I guess this nonsense really does make the rounds about once a year.

1) The troops in Iraq have their own laundry, and it costs $2.35 per load, washed and dried. No one forces them to pay any BS $99 on any base in the world. This is a pure lie. My son is in Baghdad right now, and he laughed when he heard that.

2) As all cabinet members are required to do, Mr. Cheney's assets are in a blind trust, and have been since he before he accepted the VP position. Mr. Cheney was already a millionaire in 1975, after working for the investment firm of Bradley, Woods & Co., so money hasn't really been the issue for him in his political life.

3) There is no such thing as an open-ended retirement package.......this one made me laugh when I read it.

(*Editors Note | At the time Dick Cheney retired as CEO of Halliburton, to run along side George W. Bush for control of the White House, the company awarded him a Twenty Million dollar retirement package. They stated at the time that it was their legal prerogative to increase the size of that package at any time to any amount they desired. In essence Halliburton can give Dick Cheney as much money as they want whenever they want as long as it is earmarked; 'retirement package enhancement.' -- ma)

I read this at TruthOut.com. Not sure if it is verifiable as I have only seen "deferred options" over 5 years in the contract, but I don't understand legal-ease. His deferred options payouts did overlap with his vice presidency. The term "open -ended retirement package" was just what I used to describe what I remembered reading, not an official term.

Here is more:
Congressional Research Service Said Cheney's Deferred Compensation Still Counts As Financial Interest. Cheney told NBC's Tim Russert that, "since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now for over three years." But, just days later, the Congressional Research Service released a report saying that federal ethics laws consider both Cheney's deferred compensation and his unexercised stock options as a lingering financial interest in the company.

Ahhhhh, good old TruthOut.org..........the most misnamed smear blog on the web....lol.

No, Mr. Cheney's retirement package was a finite number of stock options and cash, nothing more. He sold off the options in 2000, as was reported in the Wall Street Journal. Any other stocks, bonds, or other financial instruments are held by a blind trust..........which, by definition, Mr. Cheney knows nothing about.

I'm sure that the Cheney's have a mansion already picked out in Dubai for their retirement.

Nope, Jackson Hole. Home.

I just dont understand why everyone gets made because Dick Cheney had a job when he was not in public service. Would it better if he had collected unemployment?

He had a job that profits off of war and then started a war immediately upon leaving there. A war that he admitted in 1994 would be a quagmire. That is the problem. If he has worked for almost any other type of business, it would not be an issue.

He dosent work there now. He got a job. That does not mean every decision is because of that. Haliburton is an expert in their field and has on of the best operations that can move quickly. I think that is why they were hired. Even though no one wants to see that. Hate makes us see things disorted

Did you watch the video? If that is the BEST we can do, then we are in big trouble.

The video is propoganda that is meant to make us mad. The truth is not on that video

http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=203
Read this then. It is our own government listing a huge list of issues with how the money is being wasted in Iraq.

Pube is not interested in the truth, Shari. He thinks there's no profit being made over their and this war has nothing to do with profit. He 'cannot' understand why people are concerned over the no-bid Haliburton making bank and handing it to Cheney who has no interest or control . . . he does what he does and they just get wealthy and give him more money. It's a COINCIDENCE . . . like, coincidentally, the longer we're there and the more chaotic it gets, the richer his old workmates and he himself becomes. It's actually something that takes a working mind to puzzle out that a leader during war who profits from our failures MIGHT not be a good idea. And yet, here we are.

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

Here is the information from a different source, CBS news:
She recently told Congress that while troops rough it in tents, hundreds of preferred Halliburton KBR employees reside in five-star hotels like the Kempinski in Kuwait with fruit baskets and pressed laundry delivered daily.

"It costs $110 to house one KBR employee per day at the Kempinski, while it costs the Army $1.39 per day to bunk a soldier in a leased tent," DeYoung said.

"The military requested that Halliburton move into tents, but Halliburton refused."

Documents obtained by CBS News show an auditor repeatedly flagged improper fees for soldiers' laundry. At one site, taxpayers reportedly paid $100 for each 15-pound load of wash - $1 million a month in overcharges.

You should see the documentaries they produce in Europe, if this video didn't do it for you, I know you would be outraged after seeing the stuff they show us over there. The Europeans shake their heads and asks how this can happen ...

Thanks, jr. I just read that Bush is the least respected US president ever in Europe. Not surprising!

Doyle I know profits are made. It is not the reason we are there though.

Who cares what the Europeans think. They wouldnt be able to think for themselves without us (wwII)

Mod you're a fool if you don't know that yet. Why ARE we there then? WMD, Get Saddam, fight Terrorism, build democracy, nation building . . . people like you believe what you're told without a single critical thought . . . what is the new a current mission?

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~