DISQUS

Your_Uncle_Bastard · 1 year ago

That's more than 1.5 fires PER DAY. Heckuva job, Cheney and KBR!!! You war-profiteering fuckers.

red_dwarf · 1 year ago

"You war-profiteering fuckers."

Words of truth cast their own shadow.

Traumatic · 1 year ago

No fair!! Those electrocutions were supposed to be for the prisoners.

lilybart · 1 year ago

That is just awful, but funny!

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

During the first Gulf War, we hardly ever got a hot meal all while we were there. Just MREs. I'm sure they were given billions to provide it, though. There would be plently of hard boiled eggs. I haven't been able to eat one since. And we all got hugely sick with some crazy diarhea from the water. It was so bad, we were all running to the shit houses every thirty minutes or so. And don't ask for anything medical to help with it. There wasn't anything. That was all KBR when Darth was around then, too.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

If you wanted a hot meal, you took your package of whatever and placed it on the little white gas heater and let it warm up. I always felt like it had soft peter in it warmed up.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

And now, I wonder what all it might have had in it. So spoiled troops there are complaining about being shocked, come to think of it. We didn't have any electricity for cooling, which they have there now. The troops of the Big Oil Empire stay there with very few rejecting that it's wrong. I just sat there in the tent in the middle of the hot heat and sweated in my seat unable to move for months and I'm from the south so I know heat. Nah, they continue to support this illegal war, I'm not interested, quite frankly.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

We shouldn't be surprised...KBR engaging in cheap labor practices for the troops even in Iraq. It was also reported that electrical contractors for KBR reported KBR hiring lots of foreign workers, some of whom couldn't speak English, as well, so with the licensed electricians not speaking a variety of other languages, a lot got lost when giving instructions, I suppose.

Here's the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dina-rasor/human-...

And these kinds of companies aren't just war-profiteers, they're waging another kind of war on American workers as well. They're the most disgusting kind of trash, exploitative, cheap-ass greedheeds and most unpatriotic...

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

They were supposed to provide these so-called "Wolf Kitchens." You were supposed to go there at any time on the road and at least get a cheeseburger. But there was never anyone in them that we passed. I wonder how much KBR got off that fraud.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

There were alot of them from that war. My unit even brought one back from there. It was all shiny and aluminum like a 50s diner car or something. But the idiocy, is that they brought it back to my unit along with artilliary pieces as a war sovouniers but it never did anything.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

They actually "unveiled it" to much fanfare when we got back. Never got a cheeseburger, though. YAY!!

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I wish to hell someone in the Democratic led Congress would begin hearings into this shit.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

OK, I intuited that The View is going psycho this morning, so, click, off my screen.

lilybart · 1 year ago

This is what the REPS would have companies do to all of us if they could. This is what happens when there are no regulations for building and electrical work.

Regulations prevent death by shower and regulations also prevent global financial meltdown.

MikeinSanJo · 1 year ago

KBR = Killing our Boys Regularly

EmGD · 1 year ago

Here I was thinking that fighting insurgents and terrorists was the most dangerous thing a soldier can do. Instead it's taking a fucking shower.

That the policies of Bush, Cheney and the Pentagon led to this and are standing in the way of getting something done are of little surprise. When you emphasize free money for the taking and speed over competence and oversight, this is all you can expect.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/2008/07/cutti...

LasloPratt · 1 year ago

Don't you America-hating liberals get it? If we don't electrocute our soldiers, then the terrorists will have already won!

gwpriester · 1 year ago

Makes as much sense and anything else Laslo.

LasloPratt · 1 year ago

Yeah. It's getting harder and harder to be snarky...

mirth · 1 year ago

...or to have snarkiness understood for what it is.

This is more evidence of dumbing-down.
Pitiful citizenry, ours.

moreleesafer · 1 year ago

but don't they have yellow ribbons on their cars? that's how you REALLY show you support the troops. and you know electric shock therapy is making a comeback in the mental health profession...perhaps Haliburton/KBR was just being pro-active in treating these soldiers for PTSD. huh? did anyone ever think of that?


OK nevermind.

MikeinSanJo · 1 year ago

Is it the Armed Services Committee that would address this? I hope so, cuz I just dropped a note to Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of that committee:

Comments: Senator,

I am writing to you in your capacity as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. I'm not even certain that this falls under your authority, but I read a VERY disturbing article this morning regarding KBR's negligent homicide and aggravated assault of several hundred of our troops in Iraq as a result of shoddy electrical installations resulting in men and women being electrocuted (some injured, some dead) in their showers.

First of all, this is absolutely horrifying and I can't help but wonder why we are not hearing more about it, but second, I want to know who is (or is not) holding KBR accountable for their actions? What are these brave men and women's families being told? "Your son or daughter fought bravely and valiantly and survived, only to be murdered by incompetent contractors when they went back to the barracks to wash the dirt off of their faces."

I can't imagine even the reddest of red-staters would find this an acceptable situation. I certainly don't find it acceptable. I would like to see some action. At VERY least, contracts need to be pulled and some SERIOUS punitive fines need to be assessed against KBR. Ideally, they and their lobbyists need to spend the rest of their lives in Guantanamo. It wouldn't be a far stretch to label these assassins as Enemy Combatants, as they are clearly aiding and abetting the fight against American troops in Iraq.

I have a very difficult time being proud of my country when our government condones and even encourages this treatment of our men and women in Iraq through continuing to pad the pockets of the vice president's war-profiteering pals.

PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO BRING THIS TO THE PUBLIC'S ATTENTION!

Respectfully,
MikeinSanJose
(I signed my real name in the letter)

wilma · 1 year ago

WHEN THE NEWS SAID IT WAS A HOUSTON BASED COMPANY, I AND THE U.S. KNEW IT WAS LINKED TO G.W.H.BUSH'S .ALONG WITH CHEVRON.& OTHER OIL RELATED RESOURCES WHEN ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO INVESTIGATE, DO THEIR JOB, HE IS GETTING AWAY WITH A LOT OF WAR-CRIMES, WHO WILL BE THE ONES TO PROSECUTE THE ONES THAT ARE TRULY GUILTY OF MANUPILATING THE AMERICANS TRUST , AND WHO ARE REALLY RSPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR AND THE DEATHS OF OUR CHLDREN ( SOLDIERS ). WHOM WE LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY. SOMEONE HAS TO PAY..

jr · 1 year ago

A few years ago Jim Cramer of CNBC bragged about how much money you could make because Rumsfeld was privatizing everything. portfolios>people

jeffconn · 1 year ago

i was stationed in Iraq last year, and as a Construction Electrician in the Navy Seabees, the buildings that we lived in were scary. We were asked a few times to "fix the mess" because the old iraqi buildings were wired under the principle "just make it work," and normally it didn't work right. All the old buildings and quite a few of the new ones are fire hazards, definitely not up to US safety standards. KBR usually wouldn't fix any of these electrical messes. "It wasn't in their contract" was the usual excuse. KBR was thought of as do-nothings by the military working on these bases.

LanceThruster · 1 year ago

"Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust."

- President Abraham Lincoln, on war profiteers

mirth · 1 year ago

This quote is one example of why we revere the name and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

It also tells why the name and legacy of the filthy Bush-Cheney administration is cursed now and evermore.