Forum Overview :: E.L. Koba Fights For Us :: It gets worse

[quote name="jeep"][quote name="Chairman Mao"]Wait a minute, the Army has to ask permission from Halliburton to do stuff? Can't you just, like, shoot them? For me? I guess I just hadn't admitted to myself the full extent of how fucked up that whole thing is.[/quote] Every once in a while you hear a general or something mention that they don't have enough people to staff the current military needs, so they hire <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/wickham/2004-05-10-wickham_x.htm">mercenaries</a> to do it. Haliburton is just a snakepit for defense contractors, but these guys have no business working for the Defense Department. What do they have to gain by a war ending? /jeep/[/quote]