Look who's getting rich off the war! Follow the money!

[rateyes]

Just read this article on salon.com

www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/06/17/halliburton/index.html

Halliburton unit gets Guantanamo contract


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June 17, 2005 | Washington -- A subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton has been awarded a $30 million contract to build an improved 220-bed prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced.

Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc. of Arlington, Va., is to build a two-story prison that includes day rooms, exercise areas, medical bays, air conditioning and a security control room, according to the Pentagon. It is to be completed by July 2006...

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Follow the link at the top for the rest of the article.

No wonder Cheney is so opposed to closing Gitmo!

[AllegroRondo]

1. Deep Throat was right

even 30 years later.

[rateyes]

2. Yeah, he was. FOLLOW THE MONEY! n/t

[im10ashus]

11. Deep throat never said that actually.

They added that in the movie. He never said that.

[enid602]

3. $30MM?

$30MM? It will cost them more than that just to have the locks re-keyed. $30MM is chump change these days.

[rateyes]

5. rofl! Send me

some chump change, then!

[OneTwentyoNine]

4. Explains why their so DEAD SET on keeping Gitmo open....n/t

[rateyes]

6. Hey, just thought of something...

Would this be part of the "Friday News Dump?"

[tecelote]

7. More War Profiteering!

Our administration even grants no-bid Homeland Security contracts to companies that purposely register their corporations out of the country to avoid paying taxes to the country of their own personal residence.

Stop the War Profiteering! It should be a Democratic battle cry.

[rateyes]

8. Exactly! n/t

[Just Me]

9. Isn't KB & R also building the PERMANENT bases in Iraq?

Permanent prisons in Guatanamo and permanent bases in Iraq and secret camps around the world?

:wtf:

[rateyes]

10. Probably. Don't know. But, I hope they are the ones...

who build Bush's, Cheney's, Rumsfeld's, Rice's, Powell's, etc. etc. etc. cells. AT GITM0. And, then I hope Halliburton's CEO goes with them.

[radar]

12. A couple websites keeping an eye on them...

Halliburton Watch
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/
CorpWatch - war profiteers
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=176

[tecelote]

13. Thanks!