For all the trouble that Halliburton has gotten into over the last few years for violating laws related to trade with America’s adversaries, and all the mud-slinging that went on during the Presidential campaign in this country, and Dick Cheney’s connection to them, many people seem to overlooking something.
Since the Iraq War began, sixty-two Halliburton employees have lost their lives working with the U.S. military in Iraq. That’s a lot of families who are missing their fathers, sons, mothers, sisters, and so forth.
They are over there risking all for the promise of high pay and for other reasons that are beyond comprehension. Who would want to be over there as an unarmed oil tanker driver with explosions happening right next to their fully-loaded rig?
Halliburton deserves to be scrutinized for its conduct. But that should be tempered with the knowledge that sixty-two people who were under contract to Halliburton have given their lives to help Iraq get back on its feet. Halliburton is also providing for those families who are missing people around their dinner tables this holiday season. It’s a sobering realization.
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