The Cat killers from Halliburton :grr:

Just when you think Halliburton would only go after $$$...

I just finished Imperial Life in the Emerald City, in it the author, between major chapters has a one or two page mini-chapter on life in the Green Zone. One of the min-chapter has to do with the great cat kill off. It seems the Halliburton management found out the were cats in the Green Zone. And cats spread disease. So first Halliburton told the Marines to kill all cats. Well the Marines didn't so Halliburton ordered their Filipino contractors to kill the cats. But because most of the cats were sombody's pet, the owners started hiding their cats in their trailers. But Halliburton caught on to this and ordered their people to go through the trailers during normal working hours and kill any cats they found.

The chapter ends with a lady crying, she was to go back to the US, and had taken her cat into the Vets for all it's shots so that she could take it home, only to return to her trailer to find a note from the Halliburton cat killers... :cry:

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A tip of the hat to those Marines. God bless 'em.


To Halliburton: a quote from Mr. Malloy: "Have I ever told you how much I hate these people?"

I'd like to look that up and get some quotes.

Thanks!

and the book is very good on the idiots that Bush sent to Iraq.

Even more surreal than the original M*A*S*H movie, in my opinion.

By the way -- while I understand the concerns about dogs and cats being disease vectors (as an earlier poster noted), from what the book suggests, Halliburton was making enough profit out of the Iraq debacle to set up a secure quarantine facility with veterinary services for any employees or servicepeople who wanted to take their pets home. I used to work in a vet clinic myself, with techs who had rescued pets under some pretty extreme circumstances, and also know several people who brought home animals from remote northern villages and even Thailand ... it's not impossible, especially with that kind of big money floating around.

if they keep that crap up! You can't blow up everything, leave rotting body parts all over the country and NOT expect to get a rodent issue, can you? Oh wait, Halliburton is already there ... they already HAVE a rodent issue. d'oh!

Since with no cats, the rats had free reign.

Sheesh, Haliburton isnt' just cruel, they are abysmally stupid as well.

:shrug:

the cats alive, along with women thought to be witches. Then the rats with the fleas carrying the plague over-ran everything. 20,000,000 people died. Doesn't anyone learn anything ever?

Cats and dogs in the middle east are the prime vectors for many diseases. I have taken part in a dog culling at FOB Junction City in Ramadi, Iraq in 2004. I have 4 dogs and a cat myself and consider myself an avid dog lover. However I also understand how these poor animals spread diseases and we cannot have disease carrying animals near our water, food or people. Therefore when the Brigade commander ordered all dogs and cats on the FOB shot, I participated with a very heavy heart. Flame away if you must, but my duty is to my guys and their health and safety first and foremost. We did it quick and we did it clean and no one in my platoon tortured these animals.....It was depressing but neccessary....

so i'm gonna zip up my flame suit now I have a feeling I will need it.....

sometimes I hate being so honest about stuff.

and all your orders violated that document since the entire war is illegal based on lies.

I prefer living in mine.

harsh and not healthy mentally. Thanks for your service though.
Peace

My reality is quite happy. I am secure in the knowledge that no matter who our leaders are, I am following legal orders.....Do some research on my posts before we continue this further.

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If that's the problem, then, how about someone supplying rabies vaccine for pets? And, any humans who feel the need. No...I suppose a bullet is cheaper than a rabies shot, in Halliburton's opinion.

I would like a link, otherwise this is all hearsay and worthless gossip.

or to rabies?

I meant the OP needs to provide link, once and for all. Otherwise, It's all hearsay and bilgewater.

not everything has a "link." Some things are still only in books, on paper, and not online.

Sorry, I wouldn't normally pick on anyone serving in the armed forces, but that's beyond outrageous!!!

Point of fact, everyone responsible for this. Slowly and painfully. This is my hardwired kneejerk reaction, but here, I think it's an acceptable one.

I can see sanskrit's point about disease being a problem with ferals, but a: it looks like Halliburton didn't bother to check whether anyone had gotten their animals vaccinated, and b: there are ways to trap, vaccinate, and relocate feral animals without having to kill them.

May I suggest all Haliburton Executive Officers, all Haliburton employees (hey Nuremburg didn't excuse willing soldiers), Bu$h (and his POOPY), Cheney, Rummy, Bremer the 'Vicroy' (King Bu$hie's appointee), etc. and to quote the King of Siam would say to Anna: etc., etc., etc.

May 10,000 rats descend upon the cat killers for each cat they killed....

instead of just killing the animals and outsourcing it to poor filipinos who end up being the grunt work slaves of the middle east. but that might cut into Halliburton's $, and there's no more egregious sin than that...

It's not enough that we bombed the shit out of their homes, tortured their sons and raped their daughters. Now we're killing their cats?! May the vengeance of Bast be upon these murderers.

Jesus christ I can't wait for this bullshit to be over. When will this cruelty stop? :cry: