Halliburton to Wounded Employee: You'll Get a Medal -- If You Don't Sue

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Halliburton will help its combat-zone employees get the honors and recognition they deserve -- if they promise not to sue the company. That's according to new documents released today by Senate Democrats.

Ray Stannard was a truck driver in Iraq for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. In 2003, he was part of a fuel convoy that was ambushed by insurgents. Seven Americans died in the attack and 26 were injured, including Stanner. He is suing the company.

His company knew the convoy's route was dangerous and unprotected, he says, but sent the convoy through anyway. "What they did was murder," Stannard told CBS News recently. "And I stick by that."

The circumstances of his injuries qualified Stanner for the U.S. Defense of Freedom medal, the civilian equivalent to a soldier's Purple Heart. In offering to forward Stanner's medical records to the Department of Defense so they could confirm and appove his award, KBR required him to sign a release form. (You can see the document here.)

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1. Can they get more despicable?

A civilian gets injured in a U. S. designated combat zone and said injury is documented. Medal is automatic. Halliburton's action is just another example of a "CONSERVATIVE VALUE." Don't tell the truth -a derivation of lie! They most surely are the party of values.

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2. I think it was just presented as a medal, with the rest in fine print