NYTimes: Halliburton has been awarded $15 Billion in contracts

[frank frankly]

Did everyone here know it was up to $15 Billion? The Times article initially (I believe) had the 15 Billion in the Headline, and now it is buried. They must know that people do a doubletake at 15 Billion.

Unfortunately, I don't think this will hurt them. I've seen them eat too many scandals to get my hopes up.

But the war profitering, the incredible scope of it, still stuns me.

I hate these murdering racist theives.

Here's the quote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/international/middleeast/11CND-PENT.html?hp

But Bush administration and Halliburton officials have denied that politics played any role in the awarding of the contracts to Kellogg, Brown and Root, whose work in Iraq includes a $7 billion contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for the restoration of Iraq's oil sector and an $8.6 billion contract with the Army for logistical support.

[frank frankly]

1. really, 15 Billion, wow!

that is insane, isn't it?

[rucky]

2. Isn't this socialism?

state-sponsored industry

[htuttle]

4. Other way around

It's fascism.

It's not the government that's in charge, it's the corporations.

[FrankBooth]

3. Sickening

War profiteering scumbags. Where is Harry Truman when you need him?

[acmavm]

5. The dem candidates better be coming up with something. NOW!

Someone needs to file a lawsuit for fraud against this administration. Or for theft, or for something. This cannot go through.

[sallyseven]

6. Pentagon says

Halliburton is over charging and creating other violations. Those greedy bastards. They are so crooked.

[gristy]

11. already, huh?

By next summer the noise is going to be over the top. This issue is not going away, I think.

[librechik]

7. Isn';t that nice--and to think that on Dec 10. 2001, bankruptcy loomed...

http://www.thestreet.com/comment/chrisedmonds/10005152.html

oh and some Bush sponsored legislation to limit awards in asbestos cases didn't hurt either...

Yep, I think we can say that Iraq saved Halliburton from a finacial black hole.

[frank frankly]

8. it sure did

ah, Dick Cheney...you are filth.

[JailBush]

9. Holy cow - are they trying to beat Microsoft???

I'd like to know how many people are pocketing that money, and what each individuals' spoils are. $15 billion divided by 1,000 people would be $15 million each, right? If 15,000 split the loot, they'd get $1 million each.

Where's all that money going? On another tangent, what ever happened to the money that used to constitute our NATIONAL BUDGET SURPLUS? I mean, how can crooks absorb that much money?

[frank frankly]

10. ah, edward abbey!

Man, would he be PISSED OFF right now!

I am PISSED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frank frankly]

12. 15 Billion???

wow

[Blue_Roses]

13. they get away with it cause no one

keeps them in check. Sure we all talk about and know what's going on, but who is investigating it? No one really. It always goes to a subcommittee meeting, kind of like the Valerie Plume investigation...nothing.

It makes me sick. I do believe what goes around does indeed come back around. I just keep waiting.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. It's time for the retirement of the phrase

'making out like bandits', since no bandit even made close to this amount. As in 'Austin Powers', corporate greed has far outdone simple plans to ransom the world. You can't talk about 'telephone number' amounts either, since nowhere in the world, I think, has 11-digit telephone numbers.

Military Contractors - Pushing the Bounds of Metaphor.