Now we're REALLY mad:

[Theophylact]

Halliburton takes its first casualty.

Aug. 5, 2003 | TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) -- An American civilian contractor was killed Tuesday when a remote-control bomb exploded under the truck he was driving north of Tikrit, the U.S. military said.

The contractor was employed by Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, a Houston-based oilfield-services and construction company. Halliburton, the former company of Vice President Dick Cheney, has major contracts for reconstruction in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

[pickel]

Yeah, and ALL of Cheney's buddies are eating T bones and shacking up with call girls

I hope that guys rests in peace.

[Knothead]

I am furious that VP Cheney's cronies are financially reaping the spoils of this war, that good men and women in our Armed Forces are being forced to lay down their lives for!

But this jazz gives me no pleasure, either.

Meanwhile, the MAIN Halliburton execs are living high on the hog (safely stateside, of course).

[RADAR1797]

Have any of you ever seen the difference of a military base before Brown and Root and after? When I arrived and left Afghanistan we had no Brown and Root, we had T-rations, occasional steaks, breakfast and dinner. Lunch was an MRE if you wanted it. I was happy, I always had a hot meal twice a day and sometimes we had salad. I went to several AF and Army bases since then serviced by Brown and Root. Let me tell you, the option to have ice cream occasionally and three hot meals a day do a lot for morale. So all this talk about Cheney and Haliburton is irritating! Brown and Root have done some good work well before President Bush took the reigns and they are a unique company to expand their military support in the Mid East.

As for the contractor, I do not know his details, but many of them are ex-military looking to make some extra money after they get out. Either way it is a tragedy that we lost an American serving their country.

-RADAR

[Prexaspes]

If you want to be mad at America for doing something wrong in another country, try the Bhopal accident.

I was 8 years old when this happened, and I have never forgotten it. No more that I forgot about Hussein using poisonous gas on his own people, or during the Iran-Iraq war.

We are not doing terrible things in Iraq.

[Chuckiechan]

Knothead, If they weren't Cheney's cronies would you still be furious?

You guys crack me up!

[Mike]

Does it matter? Makes me wonder how long they had this lined up that Halliburton would get the contract..

[RADAR1797]

Mike,

Brown and Root has been in the theater for almost a decade. Hey, who was president then?????

-RADAR

[daveleau]

Originally posted by RADAR1797
Mike,

Brown and Root has been in the theater for almost a decade. Hey, who was president then?????

-RADAR

Of course no one (on the forum or in the reporting world) will give this fact any real attention because it is against the central argument that we are there spending billions and risking thousands of lives for one measley little company.