Yeah Dave, I hate America.

By the way though, the prison abuse scandal is borne of the fruit in memos Ashcroft has deemed Congress unworthy to read.

Memo Says Bush Not Restricted by Torture Bans & not because of Janet's titty as you'd like to beleive.


The Halliburton probe is heating up speaking of the devil. Now we're learning that Halliburton would destroy and burn trucks in Iraq if they so much as got a flat tire! I suppose I "hate America" by bringing that up, eh? I suggest you lay off the Ann Coulter for a while will you?? It's getting to your brain. Life is more than "the liberals" and the REAL Americans, y'know. None of who happen to be even MODERATE Republicans by the way. It's extreme fundie right wing or nothing baby!

Quote:

The Pentagon's Defense Contract Audit Agency found that Halliburton's system of billing the government for billions of dollars in contracts was "inadequate in part," failing to follow the company's internal procedures or even to determine whether subcontractors had performed work.

At the same time, four former Halliburton employees issued signed statements charging that the company had routinely wasted money. Among other things, they said the company had paid $45 apiece for cases of soda and $100 per bag of laundry, and had abandoned nearly new, $85,000 trucks in the desert for lack of spare parts.

"There was this whole thought process that we can spend whatever we want to because the government won't crack down in the first year of a war," said Marie deYoung, a former logistics officer with the company.

One of them, deYoung, said she had tried to renegotiate for lower prices several times but was repeatedly rebuffed by higher-ups, who showed no interest in bringing down costs. In one instance, deYoung said, Halliburton was paying up to $1.2 million a month for a laundry service that did so little work that the laundry wound up costing $100 per bag.

Two other former Halliburton employees who worked as convoy drivers gave Waxman's office statements saying that when the trucks, which cost $85,000, broke down, the vehicles were either burned by the side of the road or abandoned. Both men said they were later fired in an unrelated dispute.

"As someone who has been in trucking for 13 years, I do not understand how a company could ditch a brand-new truck because they didn't have a spare tire," James Warren wrote. "No trucker I know would have been that careless with his own truck."

Pentagon, Ex-Workers Hit Halliburton on Oversight, Costs




I think though that if you happen to bring stuff like this up, you're not thanked for ensuring our money isn't wasted stupidly but rather, you're attacked for "Bush hatin'" or making "baseless unproven allegations" or something.

It's literally like pigs at the trough at the moment. And only about half of our country gives a rats arse. The other half is trying to convince itself that all the lies it hears are actually the "proven, trustworthy, facts"

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles), one of Halliburton's biggest critics in Congress, had planned to introduce the whistle-blower testimony at a hearing today by the House Government Reform Committee, but was blocked by Rep. Thomas M. Davis (R-Va.), the panel's chairman.

Wonder why?


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