{"id":269,"date":"2008-06-16T21:47:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:47:28","slug":"supporting_the_troops_my_balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Supporting the troops, MY BALLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/17\/washington\/17contractor.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRage follows below:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nOnly a blind stinking <em>moron<\/em> would privatize mission-critical logistical operations.  But once it&#8217;s been done, I don&#8217;t care how far overrun your costs are, I don&#8217;t care how far your stockholders are exposed &#8211; if you&#8217;re refusing to provide vital functions to the United States Army in a fucking <em>combat zone<\/em>, a couple of Rangers need to put a bayonet to your neck and invite you to reconsider your position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo hell with Congress, KBR management needs to be hauled in front of a <em>firing squad<\/em>.  Believe me, I&#8217;ve got a lot of right-wing pals in the cigar shop in DC who would be clawing over each other to pull the trigger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe it&#8217;s not cost-effective for the Army to provide all its own services.  Tough shit.  Everybody&#8217;s taxes go up next year.  Starting January 20, 2009, I don&#8217;t care who wins, job one: Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, everybody who&#8217;s cashing checks off no-bid government contracts to profit off the backs of our men and women in uniform &#8211; put out to pasture.  Deals cancelled, we&#8217;ll handle it ourselves, thank you very much I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> think.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWar profiteers are the lowest form of human life, and this is why the federal government can&#8217;t get rid of the death penalty: some things still call for public hanging.  And with the Scalia court, I think we might even get some movement on drawing and quartering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir &#8211; NYTimes.com Rage follows below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}