Empty flatbed trucks crisscrossed Iraq more than 100 times as their drivers and the soldiers who guarded them dodged bullets, bricks and homemade bombs.
Twelve current and former truckers who regularly made the 300-mile re-supply run from Camp Cedar in southern Iraq to Camp Anaconda near Baghdad told Knight Ridder that they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc., billed the government for hauling what they derisively called "sailboat fuel."
Sun Herald article
Twelve current and former truckers who regularly made the 300-mile re-supply run from Camp Cedar in southern Iraq to Camp Anaconda near Baghdad told Knight Ridder that they risked their lives driving empty trucks while their employer, a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc., billed the government for hauling what they derisively called "sailboat fuel."
Seriously, read that article.
I watched a talk from the National Press Club this evening Dan Briody who's written a book titled The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money. It turns out that Brown & Root, the Helliburton subsidiary currently ripping us off right and left in Iraq, also ripped us off right and left in Viet Nam in the same fashion on the same sweet cost-plus contracts.
Forgive and forget, I always say.
