Who should be punished for the crimes of Halliburton?

Question

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

11) Halliburton employees threw themselves a lavish Super Bowl Party, but passed the cost on to taxpayers by claiming they had purchased supplies for the troops.

12) Halliburton chose a subcontractor to build an ice factory in the desert even though its bid was 800 percent higher than an equally qualified bidder.

13) Halliburton actively discouraged cooperation with U.S. government auditors, sent one whistleblower into a combat zone to keep him away from auditors, and put another whistleblower under armed guard before kicking her out of the country.

14) Halliburton sent unarmed truck drivers into a known combat zone without warning them of the danger, resulting in the deaths of six truck drivers and two soldiers. Halliburton then offered to nominate the surviving truck drivers for a Defense Department medal — provided they sign a medical records release that doubled as a waiver of any right to seek legal recourse against the company.

15) Halliburton’s no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure was the worst case of contract abuse that the top civilian at the Army Corps of Engineers had ever seen. She was demoted after speaking out.

16) Under its no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure contract, Halliburton overcharged by over 600 percent for the delivery of fuel from Kuwait.

17) Halliburton failed to complete required work under its oil infrastructure work, leaving distribution points unusable.

18) Iraq under the CPA was like the “Wild West,” with few limits and controls over how inexperienced officials spent — and wasted — millions of taxpayer dollars.

19) Cronies at the CPA’s health office lacked experience, ignored the advice of international health professionals, failed to restore Iraq’s health systems, and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars. The political appointee who ran the office had never worked overseas and had no international public health experience.

20) Administration officials promoted construction of a “boondoggle” children’s hospital in Basra, which ended up more than a year behind schedule and at least 100 percent over budget.

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

Answer 1

That Cheney and Bush are brought up on charges -- while their brainless 30 percenters sleep (see other posts here)-- is all the justice one can ask.

Answer 2

Yeah that's a conflict yet Halliburton is a fairly qualified company for that distinctive form of artwork. Cheney in step with danger might desire to have cut back himself out of the image on the element the place contracts have been signed, etc. so there could have been no ethical questions.

Answer 3

The hypocritical cons get away with all that stuff and yet they're the first to be holier than thou about Clinton's affairs. I guess that's why they're called cons?

Answer 4

No answer... but what kills me is how nothing is being done about it. Bush/Cheney should be sentenced to life in prison. Treason and Fraud to start, and crimes against humanity just like Saddam. How many innocent Iraqis have we killed in this "WAR"?

You may want to post a link for the Right Wingers who have extra vaseline and would vote for Bush again.

"liberals loathe" the American military? You must not know anyone personally that died for nothing. Soldiers fight for each other, not Bush.

Answer 5

Ah, but Cheney & his cronies made & are still making lots of money from it.

Answer 6

I believe that's one of congress's highest priorirties in the coming session...

Answer 7

Imagine all this propaganda from a democratic source, who knew?

Answer 8

I'm sure you have the documentation to back up these claims don't you? Of course you don't. Get off line Michael Moore. This Halliburton crap is old ammo you fat ***.


P.S. Stop pretending to care about our troops. They know, and we all know how much you Liberals loath the American military.

Answer 9

Who should be punished for the crimes of Halliburton?

How about we punish you for it.

It would make me feel better.

Answer 10

Find some new material,you bore me,YAWN!!!!!!