Subcomandante Marcos
25th March 2003, 00:47
Five big companies are juggling the reconstruction of Iraq contract with the US; Halliburton, a huge company who already is a contractor for the US Goverment since WWII, Bechtel, an even bigger company, Louis Berger Group, Fluor and Parsons Corporation.
The sum of the ptofits for all this companies (less Louis Berger whos profits are not public) is US$ 40 thousand millions. Which is 2/3 of the anual income of Chile.
All this companies are Americans, for which i cant help but feel esceptic. All of them have experience in other belic cleanups, como Afganistan (Louis Berger) and Bosnis & Kosovo (Parsons), Halliburton builded the instalations in Guantamo, Cuba for the taliban prisioners, and Bechtel tooke care of Chernobyl on the 80's
On the other side there are influences behind all of them, like Vicepresident Dick Cheney worked for Halliburton, and before been secretary of work, Elaine Chao was the president of Parsons.
(La Tercera © 24 of march, 2003. www.latercera.cl (http://www.latercera.cl))
(Edited by Subcomandante Marcos at 8:48 pm on Mar. 24, 2003)
The sum of the ptofits for all this companies (less Louis Berger whos profits are not public) is US$ 40 thousand millions. Which is 2/3 of the anual income of Chile.
All this companies are Americans, for which i cant help but feel esceptic. All of them have experience in other belic cleanups, como Afganistan (Louis Berger) and Bosnis & Kosovo (Parsons), Halliburton builded the instalations in Guantamo, Cuba for the taliban prisioners, and Bechtel tooke care of Chernobyl on the 80's
On the other side there are influences behind all of them, like Vicepresident Dick Cheney worked for Halliburton, and before been secretary of work, Elaine Chao was the president of Parsons.
(La Tercera © 24 of march, 2003. www.latercera.cl (http://www.latercera.cl))
(Edited by Subcomandante Marcos at 8:48 pm on Mar. 24, 2003)