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This is thoroughly disgusting. It was bad enough that we went to war with Iraq almost solely to spur the defense industry. It is bad enough that we had a vice-president who was head of this company.

It was bad enough that Halliburton also was involved with completely screwing the Gulf of Mexico over by failing to do the most basic and obvious safety tests.  Ultimately, Halliburton is all about money. Regardless of national identity or allegiance. Companies like this are not only bad for the world but they are treasonous against the USA.

The sole idea of a private military company is appalling and pathetic. It perverts the ideals of the founding fathers in a way that disgusts everyone who is not making a buck from their treason.

Anyway, as you can see I am a little pissed off after hearing the news.

Daily Kos probably summed it up the best.

When they’re not shitting all over the Gulf of Mexico our old friends Halliburton are found selling nuclear technology to Iran.

The fun starts around 2:20 with Byron Dorgan whacking the Halliburton VP around and do check out Sherrod Brown doing a Detective Columbo impersonation starting at 4:42. He plays with that for a while, then the real beating starts around 7:00.

So, Halliburton creates offshore entities to circumvent the U.S. ban on doing business in Iran, and part of what passes through this truly ridiculous loophole is nuclear enabling technology. All of the profit ends up in a Cayman Islands shell company so there’s no U.S. tax burden, and when we have to go interdict a nuclear armed Iran Halliburton gets paid again supporting our military in the conflict.

The taxpayer gets fucked up, down, and sideways and nobody seems able to put a stop to it. The troops are lucky if they get crappy food and if they’re having a bad day they end up a non-combat death in an curiously electrified shower.

This is a three month old video, but it certainly seems worth a review given the unstoppable flood of oil pouring out of the sea floor and poisoning the Gulf of Mexico. Halliburton’s cement job was a key component of the blowout and they’re just as much at fault as Beach Polluters Bird Poisoners British Petroleum.

If corporations are persons, as the Citizens United decision indicates, they should be subject to execution, just as real humans are. Halliburton’s behavior indicates to me they’d like to be first in like for this ultimate corrective action.

Well said, I could not have said it better myself. If, we are truly in a war against terrorism that is threatening our existence, then, why would the United States continue to support a company that is supporting our proclaimed enemies?

The author goes on to add a little summation:

(CODA: I wrote this diary about a transnational corporation with a U.S. origin violating a sanctions regime imposed on Iran. I did not write a diary about Israel, Palestine, Iraq, or Afghanistan, all areas in which I have opinions.

I also did state that we might some day fight a nuclear armed Iran. I do not think this is imminent, but if the U.S. and Israel keep jacking with them they’ll obviously seek to defend themselves and they are a regional power that develops their own weapons systems.

The big picture in Iran at the moment is that two thirds of the population were born after the 1979 revolution. Those young people are engaged in the same cycle of resistance, martyrdom, and mourning that lead to the first revolution. That process took a year, this one is taking a bit longer.

When I wrote this I made an error in the date – this was a 2009 hearing, so it’s fifteen months old, not three months. I found it relevant because this is the same company that just participated in the destruction of the Gulf Coast tourism and seafood economy.)

This news is old, but I also thought it was pertinent to keep track of the treasonous activities of Halliburton.

The main issue here, to give a little more clarity, is that Halliburton sold Nuclear Reactor Component technology to a company called “Oriental Oil Kish.”

Iranwatch.org had this to say about, “Oriental Oil Kish.”

“According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, owned or controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its leaders; added to the Specially Designated National (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on October 25, 2007, freezing its assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems”

It is clear, Halliburton has done wrong to the American people on so many fronts, why should we continue to give them billions of dollars in wasteful military deals?