Halliburton revealed....."without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation"

[dixiegrrrrl]

This is actually a book, which I got after reading an article about it.
Thought some others would be interested.

Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War - Pratap Chatterjee

Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.
The book shows how Halliburton won and then lost its contracts in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did for it, and who the company paid off in the U.S. Congress.
Also investigates Hallibirton's new home in Dubai, where Halliburton has recently moved its headquarters, and exposes the company’s freewheeling ways: executives leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraud. Finally, Chatterjee reveals the human costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost entirely by low-paid unskilled Third World workers who work in incredibly dangerous conditions without any labor protection.

[Jeff Murdoch]

1. Just like Darth Cheney

Designed it when he was SECDEF, before leaving to be CEO of...Halliburton.
Funny how that works.

[Gman]

2. There's probably lots of reasons in the book why Halliburton moved their corporate HQ

from Houston to the Middle East in the middle of the Iraq war and it wasn't to be closer. I've always said they ran for the border to avoid prosecution for various war crimes and other malfeasance.

[jwirr]

3. I am assuming they are talking about privatizing the services that once where the work of soldiers.

There is no longer KP or things like that because Halliburton now does that.

I have always thought this was a bad move because private means for profit.

[libodem]

4. K&R

This could not be a more important revelation.

Thanks for sharing!

Bookmarked.

[NewDeal_Dem]

5. Yet another example of where wealth comes from, today or yesterday.

Screwing and mistreating workers.
Polluting so as to increase profits.
Government-funded war and kickbacks.

[blkmusclmachine]

11. DC is a racket.

[ashling]

6. Also see, Rachel Maddow's book: DRIFT

Book Description
Publication Date: March 27, 2012
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.

Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse.
Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Ya knkow, I have it but have not dipped into it yet.

Thanks for the reminder.....

[MrScorpio]

8. "Directional Drilling" helped to cause the Gulf War

Guess which company pioneered the process

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Oh...they did, did they????

even more reason to hope the karma train comes soon.

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Of course, Willy, we are not at all surprised, are we???

[Michigan-Arizona]

10. K&R n/t

[bobthedrummer]

13. K&R n/t

[Cal33]

15. Just google "Psychopaths Rule The World" and get an education. There are nearly 500,000 articles!