Halliburton gets contract to clean up New Orleans.

[Cyrano]

Reported this morning on Pandagon

http://www.pandagon.net

I guess we now have our answer to what Cheney has been doing all week.

My agnosticism is starting to fade as I pray for a hell for Bush/Cheney and their new version of Murder Inc that is (intentionally?) responsible for the deaths in post-hurricane New Orleans.

The final insult to those who died and are suffering from the destruction of New Orleans is a contract to Halliburton to clean it up.

I, like most of you, have spent the week in tears at our inability to do anything to help those poor souls trapped in hell. My tears have been replaced by rage.

Halliburton is going to clean up NOLA? Damn you Bush & Co. The only use any of you can serve is as landfill to help seal up the dikes.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Link doesn't work

Cannot be found

[Cyrano]

5. I've fixed the link, but I think they're having trouble with their site.

Update: Link is working now.

[Eloriel]

15. No, sigh. You need to post the permalink, not the homepage link

else no one will be able to find it in a few weeks or months. If you wanted your friend to see a discussion on DU would you send them the link to the DU homepage, or the link to the discussion? Same thing.

Here's the REAL LINK, scroll down a bit for Sept 2:

http://www.pandagon.net/archives/boggles_the_mind/

[NMDemDist2]

2. It seems Halliburton has a contract to clean up military installations

not the city proper

[doublethink]

10. Well that part is only a matter of time, don't ya think? n/t

[Clintmax]

3. And this suprises you?

I saw this coming from a MILE away! Who ELSE is going to get the contracts? Chimpyboy has his head so far up Haliburton's ass he can't see the light of day! Maybe that explains his ineptitude regarding this disaster! :rofl:

[raccoon]

4. This doesn't surprise me, but it really pisses me off.

It is un-fricking-believable how greedy these assholes are.

[electron_blue]

6. dare I suggest this is why Bush waited so long for help to arrive?

To maximize the damage and therefore maximize the profits?


Naaaaa, nobody could be that evil.

Could they?

Btw - I predicted this yesterday in my "predict the future" thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4579305&mesg_id=4579305

My other 2 predictions were that Bush would impose even more civil liberty restrictions (probably more martial law) and fight a war against the victims of Katrina and other class wars.

[Imalittleteapot]

7. OK, fine - as long as they

hire New Orleans displaced and give them an opportunity to earn a living. Fat chance, huh"?

[Pallas180]

8. No Bid? I assume. You can do something about it, after

things calm down a bit.

Get on the phone to your Repug and Dem Reps and rip them a new one
over it.

Tell them the connection between this government and Halliburton is such blatant corruption that you are ready to _____________whatever.

especially since Hallibrtuon has been caught cheating us by over $100 million in Iraq. They should not be allowed to even bid.

Demand that that rep/sen demand the contract be put up for bid.

[Cyrano]

9. This is a job for the Army Corps of Engineers.

This "privatization" bullshit is just a cover for big business to loot everything they can get their hands on. No accountability. No responsibility. Just payments to Cheney and the Carlisle Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bush crime family.

[Pallas180]

12. agreed. why isn't the army corps doing it? - this has to be

laid out to the public, that the army corps is the one who historically has always done these things...not private corps.

[Pallas180]

13. Wondering if the money going to the REd Cross will go to Halliburton cause

he - dumbya -keeps pushing the Red Cross

[Ernesto]

11. Nobody payed attention when I predicted this would happen

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4561082&mesg_id=4561082

[electron_blue]

14. Yeah, me, too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4579305&mesg_id=4579305

Great minds think alike, unfortunately.

[texpatriot2004]

16. Corporate Greed. This is so sick that Halliburton would be

allowed to do this job. Aren't they getting enough Iraq business? Don't they have a record of overcharging the American people for services rendered? This reeks of impropriety. It's like if I were president and my good friend owned a company and I gave all the jobs to this company whose services were used exclusively so that no other company got the opportunity to perform these services. Isn't that how the Soviet Union used to do business? Isn't that how Saddam Hussein used to do business?

[ignatius 2]

17. shit,now the REAL looting begins.

n/t