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U.S. PIRG's Consumer Blog has this report on Haliburton's efforts to force into arbitration a suit brought by a former employee who claims that she was gang-raped by her co-workers in Baghdad. Read it and decide for yourself whether this is the kind of case that should be handled in private, where the allegations of corporate and governmental misconduct will never see the light of day.
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wHAT IS THE DEAL WITH HALLIBURTON MOVING THEIR HOME OFFICE TO Dubai is this number
1 to avoid prossecution in the U.S. or at least make it more difficult.
2 Preparation for the current leaders ' including those in Washington to leave the U.S. if the pressure gets to great from the upcoming administration.
How long will the people stand for such behavior and when will the two predominant parties stop fighting each other and represent the people whom they work for.
4. How long will the people tolerate this type of behavior.
Posted by: bILL C | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 10:00 PM
If the Taliban is in Afganistan and we know they are and they retreat into Pakistan as we know they do , as they have since befor the invasion of Irac,when there was a leader that kept the Taliban at bay " in afganistan and Pakistan why have we spent billions of dollars and almost 4000 lives of GOOD MEN AND WOMEN FOR A CAUSE THAT PROBABLY IS NOT GETTING AT THE REAL CORE "Osama" who lays back behind protected borders. Could it e that we invaded the WRONG COUNTRY. '' W '' wrong.
I feel like McCain will continue with this misinformed and stuborn endevor.
Posted by: bILL C | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 10:13 PM