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> Whistleblowers Detail Corruption and Fraud at Halliburton during Senate Hearing

15 February 2005, 23:21

And to think while Halliburton rips off the taxpayers our troops don’t have what they need...

Another quote from Senator Durbin

"I went to the veterans hospital and met with soldiers, young women and men who have given their lives, their arms and legs, their futures. And they ask me ’senator, can we afford to come up with the money for armor plating for the 8,400 humvies from Iraq, like the one that blew up under me and took my leg? Can we get the vests that will protect the soldiers over there? I don’t understand why we all don’t have them when we need them?.’ Simple hard questions, questions this senator can’t answer. Because frankly the resources we put into this war are still not enough to protect them in these basic ways. Money that is going into obscene profits, money going into waste and fraud that should never be tolerated. This story needs to be told to all americans. It is one thing to wave the flag, but we must not waive our common sense and say we are patriots. And our common sense tells us that the companies that are serving us need to be patriots as well"