Ed Sanchez on Halliburton/KBR
War Profiteering
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"Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend
loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation
while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the south and their
countrymen are moldering in the dust."
Abraham Lincoln - regarding the anti-profiteering False Claims Act
of 1863
“I don’t want to see a single war millionaire
created in the United States as a result of the world disaster.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II
Seven men died and seven were seriously injured in the Good Friday Massacre of 9 April 2004 as a result
of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root's depraved and
greed driven policies and operations that knowingly sent a convoy of
fuel trucks into a raging and ongoing firefight - 2 days after initial
attacks and 2 hours after another convoy had been attacked in the same
place.
These incidents of lethal incompetence
continue. Click here
for information on another such incident in September 2006.
Ed Sanchez is a
WNMU graduate, a Navy veteran, and a native and resident of Silver
City, NM. He contracted with Kellog Brown & Root to drive a
truck in Iraq beginning in January 2004. On 9 April of that year
he nearly died - having been wounded twice - in an attack on his supply
convoy by an insurgent militia yet still fought back and rescued
wounded companions.
He sought to be neither a hero nor a victim, but
to work under difficult conditions - as Iraq was, supposedly, entering
its "reconstruction" phase - with KBR assurances for his safety
and well being.
He is also featured in the Robert Greenwald
documentary - Iraq for Sale -
which examines his case and others related to Halliburton / KBR's
criminal frauds and other contarcting companies. These profiteers
have committed crimes against their employees, Iraqi citizens, the US
government, and it's citizens who have paid dearly in both blood and
money. The corporate thugs and thieves at Halliburton - whose
former CEO was Vice President Richard Cheney - enrich themselves
under no bid, "cost plus" contracts in a time of national crisis.
Ed has been engaged in a lawsuit against KBR
along with his fellow survivors and the familiies and estates of those
that died. Within days of their testimony in Washington, their suit was thrown out under claims by
Halliburton/KBR of "sovereign immunity" and the judge ruled that KBR
was not responsible for the orders to send them to death and
devastation as the US Army gave the final orders and cannot be sued for
their failures in a time of war. The case is on appeal.
Visit these links to a series of
articles on war profiteering from
Militarism and U.S. Trade Policy By Dave Ranney / 15 December 2006 In recent decades, U.S. global economic policies have
increasingly driven U.S. military policy.
It's Still About Oil in Iraq
By Antonia Juhasz / 8 December 2006 A centerpiece of the Iraq Study Group's report is its advocacy
for securing foreign companies' long-term access to Iraqi oil fields.
United States Rides Weapons Bonanza Wave
By Frida Berrigan / 16 November /2006 War, instability, and high oil prices have created a perfect
storm of profit for the world's weapons manufacturers. This year, FPIF
columnist Frida Berrigan reports, defense military analysts predict the
biggest arms bonanza since 1993...
Executive
Excess: Close Loopholes that Permit War Profiteering
By Sarah Anderson / 15 December 2005 The war profiteering is on. Defense contractor CEOs received
raises on
average of 200 percent between 2001 and 2004, compared to only
7 percent for average large company CEOs.
Executive Excess IPS and United for a Fair Economy expose how defense and oil
executives are cashing in on conflict.
And of course, a Google search for war profiteering Iraq produces enough, uh, light
reading to satisfy the most inquisitive
Click
here
for Halliburton Watch Click here for Iraq for Sale Click here
for Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing Click here
for Siri Khalsa's Desert Exposure article Click here
for video of the SDPC hearing Click here
for audio of the SDPC hearing Click here for Iraq Eyewitness - Alternative Media from the front lines
Click here for Halliburton's further attempt defraud its victims Click here
for a blow by blow account of the Senate Hearing Click here for Robert Greenwald's press release Click here for
convoy survivor Bill Peterson's page at Iraq for Sale
