Thursday, August 04, 2005
Rummy learns "war profiteering" from Brown & Root in Viet Nam
Here's the claim I referred to earlier from Christopher Lydon's Open Source program called "Show Us the Money" on financial mismanagement of U.S. tax dollars in Iraq.
Thanks to Carl for pointing out that the passage in question (in this .mp3 file) begins at 37:54.
The speaker is Pratap Chaterjee, Managing Editor of Corpwatch and author of Iraq, Inc.
Thanks to Carl for pointing out that the passage in question (in this .mp3 file) begins at 37:54.
The speaker is Pratap Chaterjee, Managing Editor of Corpwatch and author of Iraq, Inc.
" . . . in early May of 1966, Donald Rumsfeld went to Viet Nam to inspect exactly the same kind of overspending by a company called Brown and Root, now part of Haliburton, for the amount of money they spent. He came back and said, "This cannot be characterized as anything but war profiteering," and he pointed to the president of the time, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson was getting money from Brown and Root, $23,000 for the president's fund.
So what's really curious is that this has happened before. The same man went to an American war in Southeast Asia and he came back and replicated that methodology here. Either he has a very bad memory, or it was something a little more deliberate. I don't know, I am just a journalist."
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