Halliburton Says "Let Them Eat Cake"

The Island of Balta links to an MSNBC article which shows the sincere concern Bush and Cheney have for the troops in Iraq:

Balta notes:

A company called Event Source, who are working under Halliburton in Iraq to provide meals to U.S. troops (they prepped the famed thanksgiving dinner) are threatening to stop serving our troops hot meals. The company has already started laying off staff in the U.S. and is on the verge of having to serve nothing but sandwiches.

Why? Halliburton, who is already being accused of overcharging the government for food, hasn't paid tens of millions of dollars that they owe on the contract.

There's small justice in noting that HAL is down a bit today. Overall, the price is still almost 50% higher than it was a year ago. Dick Cheney can sleep easier tonight: his severance package is safe, and I expect his response to providing hot meals to our soldiers would be remarkably similar to his rationale for avoiding military service as a young man: He has "other priorities."