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It's patently ridiculous, and the above story doesn't come close to verifying
it.

 

Ridiculous because you don't like it? What's to verify, the officer had
the facts and it was on video. Haliburton are a bunch of thieves filling
cheney's and bush's pockets.
--
Mike

SV650
UKRMMA#22
Skype: muddycat

 

No, ridiculous because it's just more usenet hearsay, like Hank's "transcript"
of Don Rumsfeld begging Saddam Hussein to reassume power in Iraq.

 

*I know* - frickin' $0.10 increase is totally unacceptable!

 

It doesn't say a thing about how that amount was calculated. Shipping,
handling, processing, all the various overhead involved in getting it
from raw to table could easily run up the cost a BUNCH when getting it
to a front line somewhere.

 

At last, a considered opinion.

 

Local National Workforce. Cheap as chips.

Not really.

Not really.

 

Oh well, OK then.

<Kicks cat>

 

I posted a documented account of an extremely anti-Halliburton website where
that group savaged the company for charging $5 a meal when some Iraqi
subcontractor agreed to provide the same meals for $3 per meal. (Not taking
into account that the Iraqis that company hires are apt to be willing to work
for a little less, and carry a little less overhead, than the Americans that
Halliburton flies over from the U.S., but that's another off-topic thread.)

If $20 per meal is such a reasonable estimate of Halliburton's purported
overcharging, why would that organization have quoted the much more believable
rate of $5 per meal as if it were a huge rip-off? Why not claim the $20.00?

 

yep. a gas war the summer before my first car got it down to 19
cents/gal. $20 filled up my car the next year.

 

because they thought the extra $2 each would cause a stir and had to
change tactics when no one cared.

 

Apparently, given the lack of specifics, the name of the episode you
reference is "private warriors." There is an interview with a Marine
colonel, Thomas Hammes:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/interviews/hammes.html

My skimming did not produce any comments about actual meal costs for
the military, but did reveal that Colonel Hammes believes conditions
in the "Green Zone" to be a bit luxurious for a combat theater;
big-screen TV and really good food were mentioned.

Now, of course, it does little good for the "winning of hearts and
minds" to be seen living in very comfortable conditions while the
citizens of the nation you are purportedly liberating are woefully
unemployed and without basic utilities a significant percentage of the
time. Such appearances could lead to insurgency.

It would do well, if you wish to show the excesses of the
Administration and the in-theater contractors, to be sure in your
facts so that concise and intelligent points and counter-points can be
raised and addressed. My 2c.

 

Damn inflation is outrageous!

I'd bet most of those college youngsters I see daily have no idea what
a gas war is.

 

That depends upon a lot of things. For instance;

might be similar. If it is not in Iraq, transportion costs must be
figured in.

Even if it IS in Iraq, it has to be transported around the country, and
security forces provided to keep the terrorists from blowing up the
trucks.

What kind of taxes are levied on gas in Kuwait vs what kind in Iraq?
How about taxes on profits? Haliburton must pay US taxes. Do the
firms providing gas in Kuwait?

In short, only an idiot would make the statement you made.

bob

 

I believe you use a different test to get that number.

Reassembler

 

You do.

You do.

Unfortunately, you aren't.

 

Believe you're right. I think the pumps in parts of Europe advertise
the higher "Research" octane rating, rather than the average of
"Research" and "Motor" octane that we use in the States.

 

On the other hand, it could be presented and seen as "this is what we
are trying to bring you." Without your government stealing every
penny, eventually, the people can have a much better life than before
and now. Maybe, I have rose colored glasses on, but I truly believe
that we are trying to bring a better life to the people of Iraq. JMO

 

Odinn said:

In most countries (including all of Europe and Australia) the
'headline' octane that would be shown on the pump is the RON: but in
the United States and some other countries the headline number is in
fact the average of the RON and the MON, sometimes called the "Road
Octane Number" or RON. This means that the octane in the United States
will be about 5 points lower than the same fuel elsewhere: 87 octane
fuel in the United States would be 92 in Europe.

 

Mark said:

I know too - I just typleed it rong.