Yesterday I was sitting here wondering if I should continue one of my year of
scam blogs, Helluvaburden. I
started it to keep track of all the news surrounding Halliburton’s corruption.
For the past couple months there hasn’t been too much news regarding them, then
I wake up this morning and realize the debate that originally provoked me into
starting the blog has found new life and new allegations:

WASHINGTON — Water supplied to a U.S. base in Iraq was contaminated and
the contractor in charge, Halliburton, failed to tell troops and civilians
at the facility, according to internal documents from the company and
interviews with former Halliburton officials.

Although the allegations came from Halliburton’s own water quality
experts, the company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney denied there
was a contamination problem at Camp Junction City, in Ramadi.

“We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water
source that was not treated,” said a July 15, 2005, memo by William Granger,
the official for Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water
quality in Iraq and Kuwait.

“The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of
untreated water from the Euphrates River,” Granger wrote in one of several
documents.

Article continues
here.

This is not the first accusation against Halliburton’s subsidiary, KBR. Last
year Senate Democrats held a hearing into KBR’s operations in Iraq and were told
by former a former KBR employee about them serving food to our troops that was
more then a year out of date. That same employee also told of how KBR charged
for twice as many meals as they were feeding and funneling the money into their
own corporate parties.

There was only one course of action that happened from those hearings.
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, who gave over 20 years of excellent service to the Army
Corp of Engineers procurement office was fired from her job. The reasons were
shady and she is involved in a lawsuit but it appears the real reason her
employment was terminated was because of the testimony she gave the Senate
Democrats on the illegal handing out of contracts to Halliburton.  (Read
more about her

here)

Today the Senate Democrats are holding another hearing into Halliburton’s
contracts. It is nice to see they are interested in war profiteering but it
pisses me off to see how the Republicans just ignore it. During World War 2, the
Truman commission was set up to investigate war profiteering. This was set up by
a Democrat while there was a Democrat in the White House. Sadly with the culture
of corruption that surrounds Republicans today, we will never see anything like
that. Instead they feel it is fine to give companies like Halliburton billions
and billions of our hard earned tax dollars and not ask any questions.