Why do Republicans ignore the fraud and war profiteering of Halliburton?

Question

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.

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. 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.”

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.

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.

Answer 1

This is an excellent question, but since I am not one of them, and I am definitely anti-Halliburton, and all other corrupt corporations that are just like them....I don not know the answer to your question!!! The thinking of these people totally bewilders me!!!!!

to xialou1...I opened the link you provided in your answer, and I watched the film. Anybody who doesn't watch this film deserves a kick in the pants (that is putting it mildly) !!!!!

Answer 2

Probably because there are many corporations other than Halliburton who have profited from the "Iraqi" war. In the latter part of the 1950's and early to mid-1960's, General Dynamics profited considerably from the construction and installation of the Atlas Missile; whose demise became effective in the late 60's. Billions of dollars were spent in Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas erecting "silos" to hold the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Now, those missile sites are only a "footnote" in history, the sites being returned to the farmers on whose land those installations were installed. As General Sherman has been quoted" War is Hell"; but war is also financially lucrative. The Sherman Tank would not have been invented if not for war. The Jeep would not have been invented if not for war. The AK-47 would not have been invented if not for war. War is financially lucrative; and until people throughout the world recognize this fact, and stand against those who only want to profif financially, someone will always be at war with someone else.

Answer 3

Very good question but one word of it is off... they don't 'ignore' it, they refuse to hold Haliburton's actions accountable.

It is not a matter of ignoring. It is a flat-out matter of letting a company get away with things because they have paid off certain politicians.

Answer 4

Shame on President Clinton hiring Hallibuton for the war in The Balkans. BTW Our troops are still in the Balkans. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!

Answer 5

This vid covers that plus some other thoughts,,,

great Question
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198

Answer 6

Because most think politics is like sports and they want to be on the winning team.

Answer 7

Because most war profiteers ARE Republicans!

Answer 8

Fraud...in politics? I don't believe it!

Answer 9

it is only typical stuff so no big deal.