Remember that photo-op of Shrub serving a T'giving turkey to the troops? That bird wasn't real; it was a showpiece. That's funny enough, but it gets better: the idea of a showpiece turkey on armed forces chowlines is, apparently, fairly common in the US forces; the soldiers are served from standard steam tables. Fair enough. The making of these turkeys is usually contracted out (because apparently army cooks can't make one themselves? ahh, gubmint efficiency). Who got the contract for the ones in Iraq? KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root, ne?). Who is KBR a subsidiary of? Halliburton.
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Remember that photo-op of Shrub serving a T'giving turkey to the troops? That bird wasn't real; it was a showpiece. That's funny enough, but it gets better: the idea of a showpiece turkey on armed forces chowlines is, apparently, fairly common in the US forces; the soldiers are served from standard steam tables. Fair enough. The making of these turkeys is usually contracted out (because apparently army cooks can't make one themselves? ahh, gubmint efficiency). Who got the contract for the ones in Iraq? KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root, ne?). Who is KBR a subsidiary of? Halliburton.