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when i woke up early that morning he was about to say about four thirty am we had to be out by our trucks and by seventy and we already knew what we were going on our mission we were told at seven pm the night before on the eighth of april a soldier that was sketching a map with his boot in the gravel. next to his vehicle while some of the saw part

of some of that stood beside the road to rig and i wasn't sure what red meant we left the post. nearing eleven o'clock we're going down the road and we got pretty close to the i believe that the grubby prison and also the traffic there's no traffic. and right about then. i mean bullets came from everywhere sounded like we were in a hail storm there were coming through my doors that he might take or if they're hitting the windshield or put into it in the. you could hear it coming through one door hit the other door with a large gear and i did they're just coming in everywhere and that it just it we crescendo just like it never stopped after that. and they're looking here man. crying on the radio yelling for help burning down burning help me help me

please don't let me die interact friends that i had promised before that. you know if they broke down or something happened i wouldn't leave from him scream and. head to head help me help me please i don't want to die here i was completely saturated with blood and my parents were soaked with blood machinery received from derek there just absolutely just sheer terror. just absolutely positively horrifying. i still feel i just still have that. sort of thing in me that's like said here right now it's like i am still. like to ask our. bodies

of four people were found west of baghdad near an area where u.s. fuel convoy was attacked on friday. day after that attacks seven americans were reported missing including contractors working for how a burton a company that supplies fuel and other supplies to u.s. troops the families were notified. it had to have to you know interest i think your teenager again. to. his death maybe them. these men want to do the right thing so. bottom line they were totally taken advantage of and u.s. forces are here are saying openly they're braced for more terror attacks more but a significant anniversary of the fall of baghdad we had

a christian holiday and they converged to create what was an obvious day of danger right trust the company i trusted and then this is a fortune five hundred company that i just don't believe it was to me down the road it was closer was going to have hostile activity for sure i just. didn't cross my mind halliburton and k.b.r. had news from multiple sources including multiple sources in the military that the roads that day were under active combat operations and were black clothes and or red no civilians they knew there was more than a good chance that they would be killed why would they send this convoy in camouflage trucks down that road in the middle of battle is about contracts i believe fulfilling a contract and replacing us if we died there's

a lot of different contracts being offered out there and tell about who wants most of them if they could have them all they would take a moment. then. they were to continue doing business with their r.v. whatever the risks were was nothing but the money there's no duty honor country. among anyone it how britain k.b.r. their contract with the army provided them literally billions of dollars of revenue every year that the contract profit and the contract profit that they may became more important than the lab's of the men that they hired to kill bag or replace people they try to do with us and. they killed my friends. as far as i'm concerned they try to kill me i know they know people talk about oh

they they gave their lives for this thing and i back and assure you they did not. they were stolen from them they were screamin and didn't want to go. and there wasn't any thing greater glorious about the whole. scene or deal they didn't die they didn't pass away they were murdered. k.b.r. got billions of dollars worth of contracts in iraq without a bidding alan burton got the government contract without a competitive bid in. the case of power burn most of the contracts they've received to been sole source contracts which means they're either given the contract it's just offered to them or the ability people to bid on it a lot of federal officials will defend this saying this is the only company that

can do the work conservatives especially who favor a free market system should be outraged by the degenerate state the lack of competition in defense industry one in china greenhouse a top contracting officer at the army corps of engineers alleges favoritism and rule breaking i walked into a process that was corrupt that was geared toward preferential treatment to k.b.r. k.b.r. place pre-selecting the duration of the contract was pre-determined. the most blatant abuse that i had experienced in my contracting career. and weighs competition and i cannot sufficiently stress that in defense industry when it comes to the big programs there is not competition it's monopoly and cartel behavior it is corrupt is corrupting it is corrosive to our national defense and we show there's nothing there. to come up with your old who wants it thank you and when

they're. never worried about everyone had. we get anything out of the band in three months. and no one. can see my name is james patterson proud to work for halliburton my name's ben carter and within the first week of being in iraq i knew that that wasn't going to be the company that i wanted to be with halliburton was hired to provide clean safe. cooking cleaning shower water for the military one of halliburton's employees saw something wiggling in the water in his toilet bowl so i went and tested the water in our water storage tanks there was no chlorine in there none of the water we showered in every single day was extremely contaminated and when i

talk about contaminated water i'm saying malaria typhus. cryptosporidium i mean the list is really really long how about basic used by its own employees of exposing troops to contaminated water in iraq i tried to modify the troops but they're exposed to a serious health risk i was told. they were only concerned with making their profit and didn't care how it may affect the troops of the sixty seven water treatment plants that allen burton run sixty three of them were providing safe water. and the marines are showered in it every single day.

sorry. i was there to help them. there's a lot of soldiers over there they might come home without a bullet wound but there's a lot of them that are going to come home with pathogens in their blood because albert. and they don't even know to get tested for it. unless somebody tells them and i'm sure how burton is not going to be the company to tell . when i joined halliburton i knew i was going to work on some big things we put out a few fires that were. once ran into a small challenge of getting supplies tracked through the biggest bank in our troops got all americans to. feel just a little closer to home. every.

hour for food. please. tell me about that line over there. several times. all it takes is one iraqi that's an insurgent and because they knew what time we were going to eat every day they knew when to expect. and that happens because k.b.r. won't go to a twenty four hour feeding schedule where they just always have food that they won't do it because it saves them money. because they get paid by how many soldiers they buy how many soldiers the. troops the pentagon has found some serious problems work on that contract as well pentagon auditors found no burton contract to provide food and housing for american troops at a staggering one point eight billion dollars in unsupported cost. how

a burden was charging forty five dollars for canada like. the military for. the sodas were made right there in the desert it's not as if they were brought over from the united states. with arabic. you know coca-cola pepsico whatever right there in the desert so it's not as if they had transportation they had. one hundred dollars for clothes i washed. the. technology innovation. led mission is. going to take three. three.

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today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. led. whenever we got our laundry back it felt worse than when we turned it in everything was still grimy and i was told by my chain of command that i was not allowed to wash my laundry on my own i had to take it to k.b.r. to have it washed even though we all knew that they were doing a horrible job because they get ninety nine dollars. for a bag of laundry that i could do at home for three dollars a legal way

a statement from the goldman or taxpayers money the pentagon auto. company is overcharging taxpayers. company billed taxpayers for its contract work in iraq it is your money that's being used these contracts have managed this is to cost plus which is the opposite of trying to save money it guarantees that everything that you buy will be paid back and read if you see it is justified and you'll be given a profit in addition. the critics. say the more taxpayer dollars halliburton and more halliburton. cost plus encourages you to write up the cost of the program because you are going to get a percentage of the end result is so there is no incentive to stay at motel six states. in qatar folks the place they chose for orientation the way it was

a huge resort set right on the ocean. so it was better than the window. it was faint save marble floors mahogany wood were just beautiful they had seen. you could go on real wave runners play in the water they were running wave runners and we got paid by the hour to do it i was told this don't question and enjoy it several government agencies are currently invest. beginning of halliburton overcharge for work already completed in iraq. and i had five star meals catered to him every day it was so lavish oros the vegetable plodders beef plodders fish platters cost plus contracts k.b.r. looked at it the more money we spend it's more money we get our pockets we have

made over there compared to military when those guys were living in tents and we had our condition private which is tenfold we're staying in we're completely malty everybody was getting sick well thrust the transactions are getting paid millions of dollars why can't even give us attempt. to look when. the soldiers are sleeping mom these little cars in the middle of theirs or one of these k.b.r. executives are driving nice forty thousand dollars vehicles they and their secretaries are driving at least a thirty to forty thousand dollars vehicle with everything imaginable all of that you could put on a broom ramzan leather interior cd players and all these extra minute these are you know you don't really need more time why do they need an h two hammer why do they have cadillac escalates in iraq for how burton managers what is the purpose. they get the wrong equipment ordered the

wrong stuff. pewter still in boxes new vehicles to push them out of what they called burn pits and i just set it on fire climate as a was to get more money for the right equipment or the right stuff they needed why would you need to order some biases roman quipping just because i'm a patient and you burn it. and destroy it. you got brand new trucks over there and then there's not even oil filters so when the motor blows what do do you. new truck and bill the government said. they wouldn't have a spare tire created and we had a blow to them they didn't care. for and these are maybe eighty thousand dollars vehicles maybe one hundred thousand dollars you know they're expensive trucks we're burning fuel in front of the iraqi people we're not really doing anything to help

we would escort entire convoy is where every flatbed truck was empty the allegation come from twelve truckers complaining that the company was wasting government money by running empty trucks on the convoys and billing the government for them. to travel. and take a chance. when there was no purpose when you went up. to make a better life for my family always have a roof over their head not to worry about where their next meal is coming from but then you know you look and you go up and down the road. and your butt is getting killed for. not even as much as a band-aid. that's how i can kill him i can your money. halliburton cues to hundreds of millions of dollars in improper chargers pentagon

auditors have found potential over charges of sixty one million dollars now the numbers are apparently even larger than previously thought it's unreasonable and unsupported bills that exceed one billion dollars if anybody's overcharging the government we expect him to repay that money has been proven so many times that halliburton is overbilled them. and then the pentagon still pays them anyway i don't know who it is that is protecting halliburton i don't understand why the military would protect them if you look at their board of directors they've got contacts in the state department contacts in the military. people who work for halliburton once worked for the military. when you hire top pentagon officials and when the vice president is your former c.e.o. you're going to get the access that other people don't get is reportedly not a coincidence that vice president dick cheney's old company got

a huge contract to help rebuild iraq time magazine's that is gotten a hold of a pentagon e-mail saying cheney's office coordinated how important a multi-billion dollar deal all the revelations came out about halliburton getting all these fancy no bid contracts there was not a single hearing in the congress house or senate about the mysterious bidding processes around iraq and halliburton. that's ridiculous the oversight responsibility belongs to the united states congress it belongs here and it's not happening here the senate should spend a little less. advertising allegations of wrongdoing and spend more time talking about what is going on right if anybody believes that the contracts handed to how a bird for iraq were. you know he did the morally equivalent of insider trading and you know i've got an ocean in the middle of kansas and i'd like to take you surf and it's just phenomenal i mean course they were insider deals of course it was

payback for old old friends and political supporters and campaign contributors they're very strategic and how they allocate their political contributions you'll see most of their money going to the committees that oversee military matters and funding for. when you pay influence money in the form of campaign contributions it means people look the other way the u.s. army announced today and signed a new contract with a unit of the huge contracting firm. and stock has quadrupled in value since the war began and taxpayers are being ripped off. the people in charge say we want to give to contractors because they can do it cheaper but lo and behold the evidence is now coming in and it isn't cheaper and we're not actually getting what

we're paying for. we were writing contracts with. how the burden others to do things the iraqis could have done better and far far cheaper and by the way we would got iraqis off the street and give them jobs let us stop the war profiteers learn to say no to them and learn to say if you continue to you're going to go to jail because that's where you belong my amendment would stop that. there hasn't been a single major piece of contracting oversight legislation passed by the congress since the war began not even a significant amendment has been passed despite all the enormous amounts of fraud and waste and abuse there needs to be a special committee established a bipartisan committee take a look at waste and fraud and abuse the amendment is not agreed to them and is not adopted and of leahy and that many if not take retail.

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