Memo: Halliburton failed to purify GIs’ water

[dogday]

Internal report says contamination could've caused 'mass sickness or death'

WASHINGTON - Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused “mass sickness or death,” an internal company report concluded.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.

The problems discovered last year at that site — poor training, miscommunication and lax record keeping — occurred at Halliburton’s other operations throughout Iraq, the report said.

“Countrywide, all camps suffer to some extent from all or some of the deficiencies noted,” Wil Granger, Theatre Water Quality Manager in the war zone for Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary, wrote in his May 2005 report.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11854311/

Just another way that Halliburton is ripping off America

[Ian David]

1. Dick Cheney tells our troops, "Eat Shit and Die"

[dogday]

2. Or in this case drink shit and die n/t

[Ufomammut]

3. Oh those nutty troop "supporters!"....

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Just put another ribbon on your car

and everything will be fine.

[madame defarge]

5. This really pisses me off!!!

For all the money Halliburton is getting from us -- the taxpayers -- this news really really pisses me off... I'm sick of the argument that Halliburton is the only damn company big enough and qualified to handle the logistics of Iraq, Katrina, US ports, etc. Damn it -- they're taking our money and killing our people!!!

[genie_weenie]

6. Oh Great! Euphrates River Water

I'm glad I took few shows when I was Camp Blue Diamond last year. Of course, it's not like the admin doens't just view me as an expendable piece of equipment.

[dogday]

7. My Son is over there drinking this crap

I hate this war and I hate these corps that are profiting off our children's misery and making it even worse for them... I have heard food poisoning is rampant....

[Bluebear]

8. Cheney fed our troops shit.

What is next?