[Peace-discuss] Another story

[C. G. Estabrook]

The personal stories from Iraq that we've been reading on this list are
illuminating. Slate recounts another, from Monday's Washington Post, about
"a Texas man who worked for a Halliburton subsidiary driving trucks in
Iraq. Since his convoy was attacked by militants 'on at least five out of
every six runs,' the man returned from Iraq highly traumatized by the
violence. And though he'd expected to be making three times the money he
earned driving in the U.S., it turned out that the pay difference was
negligible. Sadly, the article stops short of asking why [and how] the man
-- and presumably many others like him -- was duped into risking his life
(68 of the company's employees were killed) for corporate profit."

Full story at 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14325-2005Jan16.html>. 
--CGE