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Your hand wringing about the evil Xe and Halliburton while defending the goof balls at the US Census Bureau and ACORN is a pretty good indication of your stance. Your defense is a Bloomberg article which as Grapeshot said makes your argument suspect at best especially when you say that KBR is the same company as Halliburton which is is most definitely not.
The article is very misleading. That is not a new contract, it is an award for a competitively bid LOGCAP contract that was bid back in '08 in which DynCorp, Fluor, and KBR were selected as finalists out of a field that included Shaw and a few other joint ventures. The article does not specify if this is the LOGCAP IV task order or an extension to the LOGCAP III task order that KBR has been opeating under since '01. Either way it does not matter, the jobs were bid and KBR was selected as the best fit for the reasons that the Army stated in the article; namely they know what they're doing, their infrastructure is already in place, and they will be demobing from the theater at the same time.
As far as your opinion, when it is educated and based in fact then you are entitled to it. When you are spreading false information and outright lies then I and others are going to call you on it. That goes double when the disinformation you're peddlijng relates to the troops in harm's way and the support missions that civilians are performing to keep those men and women at least moderately comfortable in a shitty environment. I went to Iraq for a year working for KBR in project management. I had rockets and mortars shot at me, I had RPGs lauched to try to shoot down my Blackhawk, I listed to the incoming and outgoing small arms fire, I saw the MedVacs flying sorties into and out of the FOB I was on. I saw all of this intricately first hand and actually know what I'm talking about. Your statements lead me and possibly others to believe that you do not.
