Halliburton revealed....."without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation"
This is actually a book, which I got after reading an article about it.
Thought some others would be interested.
Halliburtons Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War - Pratap Chatterjee
Halliburtons Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraqwithout Halliburton there could be no war or occupationto its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburtons Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.
The book shows how Halliburton won and then lost its contracts in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did for it, and who the company paid off in the U.S. Congress.
Also investigates Hallibirton's new home in Dubai, where Halliburton has recently moved its headquarters, and exposes the companys freewheeling ways: executives leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraud. Finally, Chatterjee reveals the human costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost entirely by low-paid unskilled Third World workers who work in incredibly dangerous conditions without any labor protection.
Jeff Murdoch
(168 posts)Designed it when he was SECDEF, before leaving to be CEO of...Halliburton.
Funny how that works.
Gman
(24,780 posts)from Houston to the Middle East in the middle of the Iraq war and it wasn't to be closer. I've always said they ran for the border to avoid prosecution for various war crimes and other malfeasance.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)There is no longer KP or things like that because Halliburton now does that.
I have always thought this was a bad move because private means for profit.
libodem
(19,288 posts)This could not be a more important revelation.
Thanks for sharing!
Bookmarked.
NewDeal_Dem
(1,049 posts)Screwing and mistreating workers.
Polluting so as to increase profits.
Government-funded war and kickbacks.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Book Description
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts Americas dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse.
Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Thanks for the reminder.....
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Guess which company pioneered the process
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)even more reason to hope the karma train comes soon.