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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (192794)	7/1/2004 11:18:06 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1576974

Who's "we"? Bushies dont help the tax-payers and troops to take over oil-fields, they THEY take them. Bushies refused to consider Biden-Kerry's amendment to make part of the 87 bilion a loan to Iraq collaterialized by oil. They have grabbed the oil for THEMSELVES not America, and they use low-paid troops to do the dirty work while they charge tax-payers $200,000 a year for Halliburton truck drivers. These ripoff artists are the same general cabal of Bushie energy companies (and Saudis) which gouged us in 2000, 2001 and 2004, plus Halliburton, Exxon and all the others. Look at this today from Iraq. "The Halliburton "gravy train" "'We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s going to care,' Halliburton subsidiary KBR responded to a company auditor alerting her superiors to waste and fraud. NBC News ran a story last night on what it said were new allegations of Halliburton's disregard for the taxpayers' money, including $50,000 monthly charges for soda and $1 million a month to clean clothes. "The Pentagon has already awarded Halliburton Co., the controversial military contractor, deals worth up to $18 billion for its work in Iraq. But now former Halliburton insiders have come forward with new allegations of massive waste of taxpayer money." "Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the 'political slurs.' But today, after five months inside Halliburton's operation in Kuwait, deYoung has radically changed her opinion. 'It's just a gravy train,' she said." Tell me that we tax-payers aren't getting ripped off by the Bushie companies.