Do you think that's why our troops don't have body armor, because the wrong people would profit from making it?
2007-11-28 06:10:19 · 15 answers · asked by The President 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I can tell you one thing, the Halliburton employees over there might not be getting killed. Civilians make easy targets too.
What Up: HAHAHA you're a funny little man. I own a great deal of Halliburton stock and I live under the poverty line. People who own Halliburton stock are not to blame and most are just hard working normal people who happen to have a good plan for retirement nothing else. Most are not trying to get rich quick.
2007-11-28 06:18:26 · answer #1 · answered by christina h 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Anyone care to know that the roots of Halliburton success are tied to Lyndon Johnson, his personal investment in the company and the first President to grant them no bid contracts; Vietnam War.
Until the Kellogg, Brown & Root merger with Halliburton Ladybird was the largest single stockholder.
Anyone know if Michael Moore has sold his stock yet?
2007-11-28 14:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I knew a Marine Captain in Iraq about a year ago or so and i asked him point blank is there anything we can do to help with the shortage of body armor...he said that was completely nonfactual, that the marines have all the body armor they need. As a former marine I really didn't believe the "news" but wanted to ask him specifically about those rumors...
BTW is "profit" a dirty word in your lexicon or something?
2007-11-28 14:29:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
you gotta love the goofy comments suggesting that the "democratic Congress won't vote for the armor." Repubs controlled Congress for the first nearly 4 years of the Iraq war. The problem was that the Prez and the Pentagon didn't REQUEST the armor-too expensive apparently. That is documented, historical fact. The documentation is all over the internet.
2007-11-28 16:06:56 · answer #4 · answered by golfer7 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You should ask Bill Clinton, he is the first one to give no bid contracts to Halliburton (saw it with my own eyes in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo) and the one who cut the Military Budget so much that Body Armor was the last thing (right above redoing Barrack, you know the Walter Reed thing you Libs harp on all the time...) on the list to buy...especially when you need to buy bullets and weapons...so I think you have to direct that question to Ol Billy Bob...or are you just parroting what Moveon.org says...
2007-11-28 14:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
"no our troops don't have it because.... the democratic congress will not give the funds necessary....they have already given up on our troops." the troops didn't have body armor when the republicans controlled the house and congress.and a soldier testified to this on fox news a while back
2007-11-28 14:27:37 · answer #6 · answered by tyler "god of typos" 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your question is flawed from the giddy-up. They do have body Armour. BUT what difference does it make who manufactures it,as long as they have it.
You are a typical Democrat; create dissension with deception.
2007-11-28 14:20:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Did you know that Goerge Soros from Moveon .org owns most of Halliburton?
not many libs like to mention that.
Mike...
2007-11-28 14:17:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
YES and those of us who own stock in Haliburton appreciate it, Get to it Mr President and award those non-existent contracts to Hally so we can kick back at the ranch in awhile.
2007-11-28 14:19:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Nah ? bush doesn't care about our troops ?! if he did he wouldn't send them to killing zone, for some Elites - - c -
profiting and getting fat?!
Regards.
2007-11-28 17:01:28 · answer #10 · answered by iceman 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋