Halliburton employee home from Iraq says money wasted

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Wed Jun-01-05 01:36 PM
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Halliburton employee home from Iraq says money wasted

Quite interesting, from the Lone Star Iconclast:
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/22news01.htm

Inside KBR
Halliburton Division�s
�Questionable Priorities�
Former Texas Employee Home From Iraq Says Money Wasted

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MOSELEY: I don�t know what you hear about what�s going on in Iraq, but I can pretty much imagine that what you hear is not entirely accurate.

ICONOCLAST: Like what?

MOSELEY: Well, let me give you an example. When we were first told we were going over there for weapons of mass destruction, it evolved into we�re freeing the Iraqi people. You know, I can tell you right now that the 100,000-plus Iraqi people who died would argue that point. And that�s why they have the insurgency right now. I do still have contacts, and I still talk to them over in Baqubah. Nationals. The one thing that I�ve always maintained even before I left here is that, you know, I bet there wouldn�t be an insurgency if the United States had packed up a few truck loads of money and started spreading it around. I was telling this to a friend of mine there. His name is Ibraham. He said, you know, if they had packed a few truck loads of apples, they would have voted to be the 51st state in the United States. But they�ve done nothing, absolutely nothing to show that they are there for them. That�s the fact. All they�ve done is showed destruction. That�s it. �We�re stronger than you, so we must be right.�

ICONOCLAST: Is the contractor KBR/Halliburton basically just helping out the people of Iraq directly?

MOSELEY: KBR and Halliburton is the same thing. KBR does nothing for the people. KBR does nothing for the Nationals. Absolutely nothing. That�s the end of that story there. If the military does something for them, that�s completely invisible. I can tell you this with absolute fact. KBR does nothing for the local Nationals. What they do do is what they call the services. They construct things on the camps where the military camps. And some really strange things, too.

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ICONOCLAST: Any other contact you�ve had will Iraqi nationals? What�s their point of view? What do they want to see happen?

MOSELEY: They want to see a gesture on United States� part. They have not seen one. A gesture being like the truck load of apples or truck loads of medicine, of things they can actually use. They�re tired. They�re very tired of seeing truckloads of troops kicking in doors looking for insurgents. The insurgents would melt away if they would just do something positive for the masses, and they won�t.

ICONOCLAST: But Iraq has a new government, right? Aren�t they in control of their country now? Hasn�t the U.S. military had stepped aside for the most part?

MOSELEY: The Iraqis are not stupid people any more than the Americans are. They absolutely know where Saddam Hussein came from and that�s exactly what they see in this new government. It came from the same place, and why should they think it�s going to be any different? That�s their concept. Nothing�s changed. If anything, it got worse. As a matter of fact, the arguement can be made that it is far worse with Saddam not being there.

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ICONOCLAST: What about al-Queda? Is that a factor?

MOSELEY: Yeah, it�s a factor. It�s a great factor for the Republicans. As long as they can make that connection, war is a good thing. There�s no connection. There was never any connection before until this Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ran out of money so he pledged homage to Bin Ladin.
Now there is a school of thought � I can�t calibrate it one way or the other � that there is no Musab al-Zarqawi. He�s a fictitious character. No one has ever seen him. No one!