With all our concern for the environmental disaster, it's been easy to forget the 11 men killed in the BP oil-rig explosion--an explosion that occurred while the well was undergoing a procedure by Halliburton. It turns out that Halliburton has a record of several such screw-ups, including an explosion last year that caused a huge spill in the Timor Sea.
Halliburton, of course, is notorious as the corporation once run by Dick Cheney--who lied to the world to start a war, who sent insufficient and ill-equipped American troops into battle and refused to provide decent care for our casualties, who allowed the indefinite jailing of mere suspects, and who condoned torture.
I ask myself: If I were an oil worker, would I want to entrust my life to a corporation tied to a man with such an incredibly low regard for other people's lives?
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Haven't heard much from Dick lately, have we?
It seems like eveybody has forgotten about the dead coal miners too and the cynical fucks who run that industry . . . on to the next disaster, you rabbit people with the attention span of a gnat.
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