Secrecy shrouds Halliburton hiring frenzy at Houston hotel-bug control

[donsu]

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/06/16/story7.html

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The recruitment operation is headquartered at the Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel and the Holiday Inn Intercontinental on John F. Kennedy Boulevard.

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KBR's Web site last week listed 60 job openings in Iraq, 90 in Kuwait and 50 in Afghanistan.

But the recruitment operation is being kept under tight wraps, apparently due to continuing political controversy over Halliburton's role in the lucrative post-war work.

The recruits are required to sign an agreement pledging not to talk to the media, according to one of the pest control contractors, who asked that his name not be used.
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and catch this:


"The pest controller hopes to go to Kuwait and exterminate bugs there for the next five or six years -- if he can last that long. He will be leaving his family here in Houston.

But he expects to make as much as $125,000 a year, which he says is significantly more than he would make here in Houston, where he has been in business for himself since the early 1980s. He was recruited by a friend in the pest business who has already been sent off to his assignment."

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so we are paying people $125,000 to kill bugs in Iraq! $125,000!

whose bugs? the digs of our officer corp.? On our dime!

[LoneStarLiberal]

1. Send Delay Over! He's THE Bug Man!

If we had found some of that mythical Eye-Rack-Eee gas by now we could just handle the job on-site without needing to contract it out.

My only question is when will our most patriotic pest controller head over to serve his country? You know...TOM DELAY!

[punpirate]

2. One of the bug-man's friends, cashing in....

DeLay doesn't forget his friends.... Bet a steak dinner to a doughnut that DeLay knows this guy.

[salmonhorse]

3. You bet'cha...

Small wonder Tom DeLay is cumming down both pant legs for these contracts. It is an 'insect killers' full employment boondoggle. Wondering further just how many bug killers got their heads up on T. DeLay's 'honorable' stationary or did a little birdie tell them ~

:shrug:

If it's good for the goose...good for the gander; then it is likely good the the insect too.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. This is from June!

Note the date on the article -- June 2003!

Yes, this happened, but it's not new news.