In Iraq, 'Road Warriors' Deliver the Goods (KBR)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040829/ts_latimes/iniraqroadwarriorsdeliverthegoods&cid=2026&ncid=1480

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"Put your game face on," he says, strapping on a helmet and bulletproof vest as the call to roll out crackles across the radio. "It's time to put on the gloves."


Over the next three hours, Winter and the other truck drivers in his convoy will rumble through a landscape of violence and fear. They will take fire from Iraqi insurgents. They will pass through blinding black smoke from roadside fires. They will be stuck for tense moments on a stretch of highway famous for its ambushes.


It will, in sum, be a normal day for the truck drivers of KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. that finds itself on the front lines of the deadliest war the United States has fought since Vietnam.


Halliburton allowed a reporter to accompany a convoy on a typical run, providing the first glimpse of the hazards faced by its drivers, many of them blue-collar workers seeking to get ahead. Certain security measures were not allowed to be disclosed.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. many of them blue-collar workers seeking to get ahead.

Driven into harms way... by a faltering stagnant economy... despair... hopelessness... unemployment... outsourcing... "tax breaks"... driven to do what should not have to be done... to feed their families... because someone has seen to it that they cannot achieve that in their own country. Two Americas, one agenda, no direction, G_d I hope Kerry gets in....

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[lolly]

5. 10-1 they're all AWOL voters

If they're voting at all, my guess is they and their families are voting for AWOL.

[bobthedrummer]

2. Some of the "convoys" were empty trucks driving around Iraq,

if the driver got a flat tire or ran out of fuel sometimes the tractor-trailers were abandoned-that's KBR.

Until this year, KBR was charging wounded GI's for their meals in US military hospitals:mad:
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=21368

[madrchsod]

3. sorry, but i have absolutely

no feelings what so ever where these people live or die..there are millions of Iraqi men who want to work to feed their families but can`t and we pay these mercenaries ten`s of thousands of dollars a year to deliver the "goods". if i were in the same situation i`d be out there with a rpg just waiting...

[babylon_system]

4. God Bless these mercenaries helping to steal Iraq's oil

Cheap gas is worth any cost in lives.