Halliburton charges $45 for a 12 pack of soda in Iraq?

Question

Is that true..? I already know they are screwing the taxpayer more than any other program to date.. But is it really this bad?

BTW- This is soda that is from the mid-east.. Has arabic writing all over the cans... Been there, done that... So it's not like they are billing for much of a transport...

proffeso... -- Interesting fact.. But the Q isn't really about who owns the comp.. It's about why the gov't lets them rape the taxpayers... To link it in such a way, would be to say Bush wants to help a Dem.. Weird suggestion.. Though entirely possible...

I'm not talking about the PX.. I'm talking about the chow hall which private contracting companies run.. Where the soldiers get free soda.. PX is ran by the military from my understanding..

wichitao...-- Well, you have not been to the same "Iraq" as I have.. We didn't have mountain dew.. We had three differant flavors of "fanta" don't ya wanna... And coke.. All in arabic writing..

SFC_Olli... -- Oh my!! Do I have to spell this out for you? The gov't is paying Halliburton to run the "mess halls" in Iraq.. Halliburton charges the gov't $45 per 12 pack of soda that the soldiers drink in the MESS HALL.. It really isn't Rocket Science here!! sheesh!!

wichitao... --- Machines???? HOLY WOW!! Has anybody been there???? Maybe it's changed since I've been, I doubt it.. Seems using machines for a line of 450 people would be even more expensive.. just a thought..

Answer 1

Where do these things come from? There is no way on Gods earth that our troops would pay $45 for a 12 pack of sodas.

Now they might pay that for a 6 pack of JD.

But please, use common sense, you can't believe this is anything near real.

Answer 2

This is a joke, right? I was in Iraq and the PX is not run by Halliburton, it is run by AAFES, the same people that run the PXs in the US. The soda served in the chowhall is the same served at the local McD restaurant (food service type) and not the stuff that gets canned. The Arabic stuff is purchased locally from the locals and is not purchased by Halliburton, but by US troops out of the local markets.

So the idea of $45 six packs of Pepsi or Coke is ridiculous to begin with. You're just regurgitating the same liberal BS that gets written at Dumbocratic Undreground. You don't even have an idea of what a 6 pack of Pepsi costs in Iraq.

TOOL!

Answer 3

I would doubt that big of difference, but if they know there are places with great needs for the pop that soldiers have either been promised or have not gotten in long times, Then i can see this happening in war times.
Supply and Demand is a way a lot of Company's make personal big bucks off the soldiers and the Government during drastic times, and why should it change now, Right?

If this is going on in any drastic changes of prices, then lets send our shipments through the USO, so we can re supply the local branches of troops and when they come to the shows, they can take crates of this stuff back with them.
Thats a way to knock this crap off!

Answer 4

I don't know about the PXs in Iraq, but the pop sold in Kuwait is from the United States and costs about the same as it does here. Halliburton does not run the PX, but is run by AAFES. The PX's in Iraq and Afghanistan must also be run by ASFES, as I have AAFES "pogs" with those countries printed on them. The only can of pop, a Mountain Dew, that I have seen with Arabic writings has a can I got from one the KBR contractors, who lived out in town.

> The pop in the D-FAC comes from a machine, not cans. Try again.

>You don't think they use pop dispensing machines in D-FACs? What do you think they use at concession stands at major league ballparks and NFL stadiums? They don't empty pop cans into those cups, they use pop machines to dispense the drinks, like they use in the D-FACs.

Answer 5

You are full of BS. I've been to Iraq three times and payed the same price as the CONUS PX for a soda...

Answer 6

Halliburton is not in charge of the PX or the sales of items to the military forces.
I have some news for you wondrous examples of humanity who have never served. Concerns like Halliburton charge what they do so the military may divert funds to other places through their internal systems. If they charge $625 for a toilet seat, the toilet seat is not what costs the taxpayer $625. It is the 138 pounds of C4 that is being hidden to keep the liberals in Congress from finding out we use it to destroy Islamofascists.

Answer 7

Not true. No small potatoes for Halliburton. They only steal millions, not a few bucks on soda pop:

http://globalpolicy.igc.org/security/issues/iraq/contract/2005/0315halliburton.htm

Answer 8

i havnt heard that one but it would not surprise me
and I get that you're saying that they charge our government that money
and yes they do run the chow halls
Its like when I was there they paid some KBR guy over a 100 grand a year to do my job
while I got to do force protection

Answer 9

you blame Halliburton for the federal governments willingness to pay outlandish prices for everything? this is nothing new at all. the government has being paying way to much for a lot of stuff for way to long. it's how government work cumbersome,slow,and always giving out money to someone.

Answer 10

I've heard this too. A truck full of cheese cakes is worth about the same a Bunker Buster. Isn't Dick Cheney the CEO, or some other top ranking official?