Reply #58: Not defending Halliburton [View All]

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Halliburton has done a great many bad things - KBR has recently been found to have cheated the Federal Government on a number of contracts, and there seems little doubt that the procurement process is seriously tainted. But you're not defending Halliburton if you argue that their employees are not necessarily cold-blooded killers. They just aren't. And they're not in Iraq illegally. The legal government of Iraq is the Coalition Provisional Authority and it invited them. The war that put them there may or may not have been "legal" - it was definitely wrong, but not necessarily illegal - but the government is perfectly legal. At least as legal as every previous government of Iraq installed by violence.