{"id":242,"date":"2004-03-10T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T10:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=242"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:15","slug":"end-of-hot-meals-for-troops-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"End of Hot Meals for Troops in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Dick Cheney&#8217;s Halliburton is screwing US taxpayers, US corporations, and US soldiers. A Utah company that Halliburton has subcontracted to provide meals to troops in Iraq (including Bush&#8217;s Thanksgiving Turkey photo-op) <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.ksl.com\/index.php?nid=5&amp;sid=80023\" Target=\"Offsite\">reports<\/a> that Halliburton hasn&#8217;t paid it the &#36;87 million that it owes, and that if it doesn&#8217;t get paid soon, it may have to start feeding the troops sandwiches instead of hot meals.  This story is breaking at the same time that we&#8217;re seeing reports of Halliburton overcharging the Pentagon hundreds of millions of dollars for those same meals that they&#8217;re not paying for.  So they&#8217;re overcharging the taxpayers, and keeping <b>all<\/b> the money for themselves? Once again, those of us who complain are told &#8220;Support our troops!&#8221;, while those telling us that are starving the troops and pocketing the money.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Dick Cheney&#8217;s Halliburton is screwing US taxpayers, US corporations, and US soldiers. A Utah company that Halliburton has subcontracted to provide meals to troops in Iraq (including Bush&#8217;s Thanksgiving Turkey photo-op) reports that Halliburton hasn&#8217;t paid it the &#36;87 million that it owes, and that if it doesn&#8217;t get paid soon, it may&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=242\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of Hot Meals for Troops in Iraq?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}