A U.S. Army doctor serving in Iraq has linked a small outbreak of bacterial infections among U.S. troops to allegedly contaminated water supplied by Houston-based Halliburton Co.
In the latest broadside against Halliburton and its performance in Iraq, Senate Democrats produced an e-mail Friday from Capt. A. Michelle Callahan, a family physician serving at Qayyarah Airfield West, recounting how she treated six infections over a two-week period in January, at the same time she was noticing the water in base showers was cloudy and foul-smelling.
Follow-up testing of the water soldiers were using to bathe, shave and even brush their teeth revealed evidence of coliform and E. coli bacteria, Callahan wrote in an e-mail to a staffer for the Democratic Policy Committee, led by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
Do you remember why Halliburton was given these no-bid contracts over in Iraq? Well we were told it was because the job was too big and difficult for anybody, except Halliburton, to do correctly. So this is how to do it correctly huh! Hell I could have done it at least this correctly!
Let's face facts. Halliburton is all about making as much money as they can and they do not give a rat's ass if they cut corners which cause pain or sickness to befall their clients. They can't be fired because they are President Bush's and Dick Cheney's favorite corporation. They will be there making money for the president's friends until the war finally fizzles to a stop. And then Halliburton will probably get the contract for the cleanup.
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