Privatization is not an option

Halliburton and KBR, the contractors Dick Cheney runs, are the main beneficiaries--surprise!!--of unmitigated government largess in the military. (All those who don't already know this, please wake up.) We've heard many, many stories of pure greed and negligence (unarmored Hummvees, anyone?) regarding these two, but now there's a capper: a civilian CAD technician is suing the companies for any number of things most likely falling under the rubric of "breach of contract" stemming from the ghastly conditions they created in Iraq. Among the problems? Providing unsanitary water to the troops and contractors, to the extent that they shipped ice in "mortuary trucks that 'still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces.'" ZOMG! Un-freaking-believable. No, wait; completely freaking believable. Utterly disgraceful.