Saturday, September 03, 2005

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup

get a load of this, buried in the business section:
HoustonChronicle.com

Sept. 1, 2005, 8:30PM

AROUND THE REGION

CONSTRUCTION

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup

The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.

KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.
so dick cheney and his cronies are not just war profiteers but disaster profiteers. it's not enough they're CHEATING the us taxpayers with their inflated prices--and spoiled food--in iraq, and endangering soldiers, they're now going to do that in the gulf coast.

i'm speechless. but not terribly surprised, unfortunately.

The above news courtesy of the excellent folks at Citizens for Legitimate Government.

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