This bears repeating - Halliburton and its Iraq subsidiary

[Nev]

My mom's friend just went on an entertainment-industry-related trip to Iraq do to something or other for the Army...

She had breakfast at some or another event that was run by Halliburton's Iraq subsidiary. Apparently the cost of breakfast was billed by this subsidiary in excess of thirty dollars per person. For those Republicans on the board, I would implore you to consider that this isn't EXACTLY a diversion of taxpayer dollars straight into Halliburton's accounts...but it sounds to me like it comes close.

[Tortolia]

Oh noes!

[SineSwiper]

What do you expect? $5 for coffee and doughnuts? Catering ain't cheap, especially in 110 degree weather. Besides, there are much MUCH higher high-class "social" dinners (ranging from $300-$1000 a pop) to be crying foul over. (There was a Homeland Security vacation dinner that I remember the Daily Show exposing, for example.)

[Nev]

OK, good point.

[Nev]

After speaking with my mom again tonight, the cost of the breakfast was $32 per person...for cereal. These are MY tax dollars that Cheney and company (literally) are diverting to their own pockets, and I hope to find some way of making those in power realize this fact. And to anyone who points out the cost of shipping cornflakes to Iraq - sorry...they can buy local stuff...whatever Iraqi breakfast food is, it can't be that bad!

[SineSwiper]

Heh, does Iraq have food, much less running water? $32 bucks a person seems excessive.

[Nev]

Yes, it does. And here comes my own hateful and intendedly withering sarcasm...

No, Sine, they don't. Iraqis actually eat sand.

I mean seriously...yes...there are food shortages in regions from what I would surmise...there was a lot that happened before the war, we had them under embargo...but the food supply of a country wherein live multiple millions of persons does not generally dry up overnight.