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There’s this: KBR/Halliburton may have poisoned 100,000 in Iraq…

Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.

At least 22 separate lawsuits claiming KBR poisoned American soldiers in Iraq have been combined into a single massive lawsuit that says KBR, which until not long ago was a subsidiary of Halliburton, sought to save money by disposing of toxic waste and incinerating numerous potentially harmful substances in open-air “burn pits.”

And now this: Pfizer broke the law by promoting drugs for unapparoved uses…

Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again.

In the agreement the lawyers eventually hammered out, the Pfizer unit, Warner-Lambert, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of marketing a drug for unapproved uses.

New York-based Pfizer agreed to pay $430 million in criminal fines and civil penalties, and the company’s lawyers assured Loucks and three other prosecutors that Pfizer and its units would stop promoting drugs for unauthorized purposes.

What Loucks, who’s now acting U.S. attorney in Boston, didn’t know until years later was that Pfizer managers were breaking that pledge not to practice so-called off-label marketing even before the ink was dry on their plea.

We must stop those those fuckers from ACORN immediately! It’s an outrage!

UPDATE: Just in: Blackwater attempted to bribe Iraq with $1 million (tax-payer dollars!) after Nisour Square Massacre and owner Erik Prince knew about it. How much more evidence do you need? ACORN’s behavior is atrocious and must be stopped!

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  1. 1)
    David Lasagna said on 11/10/2009 @ 4:49pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’m with Brad on this one! Lawsuits for poisoning up to 100,000 people and $430 million settlements have Acorn written all over them. If we don’t stop them now, you can damn well be sure that this new government run health care they’re about to ram down our throats will have a provision for MANDATORY ACORN SUPPOSITORIES FOR ALL AMERICANS!!!! I don’t know about you but I’ve got enough problems without adding an oak tree growing out my ass!

  2. 2)
    Big Dan said on 11/10/2009 @ 8:38pm PT: [Permalink]

    And not only that, Bill O’Reilly started the “War on Sesame Street” because Oscar the Grouch sang this song:

    A is for Apple
    B is for Banana
    C is for Cat
    D is for Dog
    E is for Elephant
    F is for FOX “news”
    F is for F*ck

    F*CK FOX NEWS!
    F*CK FOX NEWS!
    F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK
    F*CK FOX NEWS!!!!!!!!!!

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    Gus W said on 11/11/2009 @ 7:17am PT: [Permalink]

    If you haven’t heard Bush answering a freshman student’s question on Iraq contractor accountability, you must hear it – the student had asked Rumsfeld the same question a month before but Rumsfeld deferred to Bush. Hear Bush defer back to Rumsfeld, even after the girl explained she had already asked him the same thing…scary example of common sense meeting political BS where lives are at stake

    http://www.opednews.com/article...lingly_ine.htm

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    Soul Rebel said on 11/11/2009 @ 12:40am PT: [Permalink]

    Colbert was on freaking fire tonight against Fox News and the teabaggers. I’m only 10 minutes in and I’m dying.

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    Steve said on 11/14/2009 @ 2:29am PT: [Permalink]

    It is my understanding that DynCorp/Halliburton was involved in human trafficking and Donald Rumsfeld figured it was “just a few bad apples.”

    More proof that ACORN must be eliminated!!

    I also heard that the top three defense contractors have paid billions in fines for fraud and other illegal activities. There must be an ACORN connection there somewhere!

  6. 9)
    Michael said on 11/17/2009 @ 2:24am PT: [Permalink]

    Slavery should be abolished in the Sudan too, but what the hell does that have to do with Acorn?

    You’re right, all of these things should be investigated, and there is certainly a law suit against KBR/Halliburton (and the Subcontractor who actually ran the burnpits that were signed off on by the US Army) as there should be…so great… wrongdoing is being investigated on all sides including Acorn. The only thing I can figure is your main point is these other wrongs “make a right” somehow? Real brilliance here.

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    Brad Friedman said on 11/17/2009 @ 10:50am PT: [Permalink]

    The sense-of-irony-free Michael asked:

    Slavery should be abolished in the Sudan too, but what the hell does that have to do with Acorn?

    We have no direct control over slavery in Sudan. We do, however, have direct control over who receives federal tax dollars. And while ACORN, who has neither been charged nor convicted of committing any crimes, has had their paltry funding stripped, huge corporate criminal organizations — such as Halliburon/KBR, Blackwater/XE etc. — continue on the public dole raking in more in a single day than ACORN has in it’s lifetime.

    There is much more than “a law suit against KBR/Halliburton”. They have been found to have defrauded the government over and over again, charged with gang rape and false imprisonment of a follow American, are charged with the death of troops while Blackwater is charged with out and out murder, running sex trafficking rings, etc.

    They are but two examples, there are scores of other such companies who continue to suck off the tax-payer teet, even after actually having been found guilty of something.

    But you Fox “News” patsies have been so utterly duped and misdirected, you’ve lost any sense of what is right and wrong and who the actual bad guys are anymore. It’s really a pity, and laughable were it not so damned dangerous to our nation and the world.

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