KBR has been gang-raping American soldiers in the way it handles laundry. Kellogg Brown & Root charges soldiers $99 dollars per load of laundry. After it is done, the clothing often is still grimy and most soldiers want to just do it in the sink from now on instead of involving KBR. But soldiers are not supposed to do that despite the fact that many soldiers have complained about health problems after putting on their “washed” clothing.
KBR also further gang-rapes American soldiers by paying its workers three or four times more than the average soldier stationed in Iraq, which pisses them off, lowers morale, and makes securing Iraq more difficult.
Halliburton gang-raped Americans on fuel delivery. In 2004, it was reported that Bunnatine Greenhouse, a civil servant with contracting experience, challenged the contracts being given to Halliburton on the grounds that Halliburton was overcharging the Pentagon for fuel delivery into Iraq. Since that would be in the bloated Pentagon budget---and that money could be used for entitlement programs like single-payer health care, Halliburton gang-raped Americans then when it overcharged on fuel.
Halliburton also gang-raped Americans who may have been exposed and infected by asbestos as a result of them by minimizing the amount of money they would have pay and by minimizing lawsuits that may bring media to attention to scandalous operations Halliburton leads on a daily basis.
Halliburton gang-raped Americans by not having to be accountable for its accounting system, which was found to be “inadequate.”
In 2006, Cynthia McKinney took on Halliburton and DynCorp as they sought to preserve the gang-raping of not just Americans but people all over the world, specifically women or little girls involved in human trafficking, by stalling a ban on human trafficking and sex slavery. Prison Planet posted an account of the exchange between McKinney and Rumsfeld on the matter:
Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite.
On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.
"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
The response and McKinney's comeback was as follows.
Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question."
McKinney: "Well how do you explain the fact that DynCorp and its successor companies have received and continue to receive government contracts?"
Rumsfeld: "I would have to go and find the facts, but there are laws and rules and regulations with respect to government contracts, and there are times that corporations do things they should not do, in which case they tend to be suspended for some period; there are times then that the - under the laws and the rules and regulations for the - passed by the Congress and implemented by the Executive branch - that corporations can get off of - out of the penalty box if you will, and be permitted to engage in contracts with the government. They're generally not barred in perpetuity."
McKinney: "This contract - this company - was never in the penalty box."
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