Top Twenty Iraq Oversight Outrages.. Halliburton is going down!

[walldude]

http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-new2.cfm?doc_name=inv2

1) Halliburton billed taxpayers $1.4 billion in questionable and undocumented charges under its contract to supply troops in Iraq, as documented by the Pentagon’s own auditors. More…



2)Parsons billed taxpayers over $200 million under a contract to build 142 health clinics, yet completed fewer than 20. According to Iraqi officials, the rest were “imaginary clinics.” More…



3)Custer Battles stole forklifts from Iraq’s national airline, repainted them, then leased the forklifts back to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) through a Cayman Islands shell company — charging an extra fee along the way. More…



4)Halliburton allowed our troops in Iraq to shower, bathe, and sometimes brush their teeth with water that tested positive for e. coli and coliform bacteria. One expert has said that the troops would have been better off using the highly polluted Euphrates River. Halliburton has admitted that it lacked “an organizational structure to ensure that water was being treated in accordance with Army standards and its contractual requirements.” More…



5)Halliburton served the troops food that had spoiled or passed its expiration date. Halliburton managers ordered employees to remove bullets from food in trucks that had come under attack, then saved the bullets as souvenirs while giving the food to unwitting soldiers and Marines. More…

6)Halliburton charged taxpayers for services that it never provided and tens of thousands of meals that it never served. More…



7)Halliburton double-charged taxpayers for $617,000 worth of soda. More…



8)Halliburton tripled the cost of hand towels, at taxpayer expense, by insisting on having its own embroidered logo on each towel. More…



9)Halliburton employees burned new trucks on the side of the road because they didn’t have the right wrench to change a tire — and knew that the trucks could be replaced on a profitable “cost-plus” basis, at taxpayer expense. More…



10)Halliburton employees dumped 50,000 pounds of nails in the desert because they ordered the wrong size, all at taxpayer expense. More…

The rest are at the link. Now Mr Bush, please tell me again who it is that needs to apologize to the troops and the American taxpayer.

Edited to add 6-10

[seeker4ever]

1. Iraq For Sale - Great Movie!

[texpatriot2004]

2. K & R nm

[omega minimo]

3. K&R

:evilfrown:

[walldude]

4. Amidst all the Kerry threads this dropped like a rock

last night. Thought maybe the day crew would be more interested. IF THEY CAN FIND THEIR WAY THROUGH ALL THE GODDAMN KERRY THREADS....

[Coexist]

5. .

[conscious evolution]

6. K & R

:kick:

[badgerpup]

7. K & R

Agree with you about the Kerry threads.
Kerry went accidently off script for TWO WHOLE WORDS. Repubs went "Ooooooooh!" and tried to smear him for it.
Kerry called bullshit on them and told them to pull their fucking heads out.
Quite eloquently, too.
End of story.
Now, can we please move on?


:kick:

[Mind_your_head]

8. K & R

:kick:

[mom cat]

9. May they all go straight to

those Halliburton detention centers.

[liberalla]

10. That would be sweet justice...

or maybe Gitmo

[Initech]

11. $617,000 worth of soda? What the fuck?

:argh:

[walldude]

13. Hell that was nothing, dig deep into the report to hear about the towels

KBR's buyer bought hand towels to ship to Iraq. Plain white towels for a buck each. Well I guess that wasn't good enough for KBR. They had to return the towels so they could get towels monogrammed with the KBR logo for five bucks each. This is where our tax dollars are going. Sorry soldier, we can't afford armor for you, we spent the money monogramming towels. It's enough to drive you :crazy:

[Initech]

14. Whaaaaaaaa? And we're paying for this shit?

:argh: :grr: :nuke: :argh: :argh: :nuke: :grr:

[walldude]

12. Thanks for the votes and kicks everyone

I posted this yesterday, and was shocked that it was totally ignored by most DU'ers. Another DU'er posted it again last night and his thread also sank like a stone. Everything on this list is enough to push the "Dems don't support the troops" arguement right out the window and yet it sank among the 3000 Kerry posts...

[indepat]

15. These in aggregate are but a tiny tip of a monstrous iceberg

[annabanana]

16. Finally! The beginning of oversight....

America NEEDS a Democratic congress.