Your In Good Hands With KBR

rayboyusmc · #1 (**permalink**) 03-09-2008, 07:51 AM

This isn't the first time that our patriotic privatized companies have given less than the contract to our troops. Let's see if the military sites are reprimanded and the KBR ones are let go.

What are the stats on privatizing all these former military functions and saving US money. As good as those for Blackwater?

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WASHINGTON - Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, (He still has a blind trust in Haliburton) the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.

The Pentagon's inspector general found water quality problems between March 2004 and February 2006 at three sites run by contractor KBR Inc., and between January 2004 and December 2006 at two military-operated locations.

It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, (sounds like the first approach to agent orange) according to the report. But it said KBR's water quality "was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards" and the military-run sites "were not performing all required quality control tests."

"Therefore, water suppliers exposed U.S. forces to unmonitored and potentially unsafe water," the report said.

Paulitics · #2 (**permalink**) 03-09-2008, 08:22 AM

In a REAL free market, companies like those should have every right to such contracts. Where the PROBLEM lies, is when those companies are proven to be crony companies of the people involved in making the wars they get contracts for.

rayboyusmc · #3 (**permalink**) 03-09-2008, 11:50 AM

If they do take what are normal miltary functions, then they need to provide it better or cheaper than when the military does it. They also have to be willing to go in harms way just like our military does.

I never had problems eating in any of the messhalls that the Marine Corps personell ran.

onedomino · #4 (**permalink**) 03-09-2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rayboyusmc

This isn't the first time that our patriotic privatized companies have given less than the contract to our troops. Let's see if the military sites are reprimanded and the KBR ones are let go.

What are the stats on privatizing all these former military functions and saving US money. As good as those for Blackwater?

You must post the citation. Where does this article come from? Who wrote it?