The world according to Dick Cheney

Anxiety Trooper · Feb 17, 2013

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You know who hired Halliburton for the first time? Bill Clinton during the Balkans. Do you know why they were hired again at the outset of the war in Afghanistan? Because they were the only logistics company in the entire world who could provide the assistance the military needed in the time they needed it, and the same could be said of the war in Iraq. This is fact, plain and simple.

How do I know? I worked on the LOGCAP III project which would fly in 500-750 people from all over the world in to Houston every single week. We'd house them, feed them, train them, put them through safety training, run background checks, drug tests, get them passports, find a station for them, equip them, buy them plane tickets and countless other steps and then ship them off to support our troops in a matter of a week or two. Then we'd do the same thing the very next week.

Dick Cheney being CEO before becoming vice president had nothing to do with the contracts awarded to Halliburton. If you'll notice they lost out future contracts as other logistics companies invested heavily in to their infrastructures to compete for the contracts. As soon as other companies could, they did take said contracts from Halliburton/KBR. I was there before and during LOGCAP III, and to see all of the parts in motion overnight was pretty freaking incredible.

Hate on Dick Cheney all you want, but Halliburton got the contract for the wars because no one else at the time could do it... and no I don't work for the company now, nor do I care how they look (they've both since split anyway)... I only care people have the freaking facts straight.
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Thanks for educating me. Guess what I worked on LC3 as well and left on my own terms. KBR doesn't get work because their overhead was and still is too high. That and they have a bad name in government contracting circles. **** what you say. Majority of LC3 work was lump sum subcontracted work. They got a no bid contract so I guess we'll never really know if no other company was technically capable of providing the work.

Anxiety Trooper · Feb 17, 2013

Anxiety Trooper said: ↑

Thanks for educating me. Guess what I worked on LC3 as well and left on my own terms. KBR doesn't get work because their overhead was and still is too high. That and they have a bad name in government contracting circles. **** what you say. Majority of LC3 work was lump sum subcontracted work. They got a no bid contract so I guess we'll never really know if no other company was technically capable of providing the work.
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It's funny that on LC4 KBR literally wins zero work. Hmmmm

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