Oh give me a damned break already, CAN really needs to take their “we are better than you cause we don’t believe in the war” attitudes and shove it where the rest of their heads need to be stuck. Let’s look at other corporations making a huge buck off this war:

CNN Fox New Democratic National Party (afterall it was the “war” that got the majority of them elected to Congress to begin with) Burger King Taco Bell Braum’s Ice Cream Blue Bell General Electric Rayteon microsoft oshkosh Sikorsky (makes helicopters) General Dyanamics Dupont Camelbak Lockheed Martin Caterpillar Textron

You get the Point, the list is enormous and this is just a few of the Companies who’s products the military buys on a daily basis and I did not even begin to include products to maintain the medical mission and pharmaceutical companies as well. So is CAN going to protest against all of these companies as well. Doubt it they will just go after Halliburton because it has a few of the larger contracts and it is associated with that “evil monster” gasp Dick Cheney.

SSG Ronald Pritchett US Army

They’re not really anti-war, they’re just on the other side.

Except for ending slavery, fascism, nazism and communism — war has never solved anything.

Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide.

Congrats. Stage a protest that prevents students from gathering information from employers that will help them decide what to do after college. Liberals, don’t you think college students can make their own decisions. Your protest is trying to prevent the other side (Halliburton) from speaking. Isn’t that a little undemocratic?

While I have no problem with the students’ right to protest the participation of Halliburton, I would hope the students protesting would stage such a protest outside the career fair building. Pass out pamphlets, be all encompassing on information, but allow those students looking for career and co-ops for their futures the freedom to move about the fair freely. Anyone who has participated in that fair knows the hallway space gets cramped and ANY added bodies in there would simply disrupt the entire fair, which is not productive to your cause in general.

Halliburton was always at the Engineering Career Fairs when I was there a couple years back. There’s usually nobody at the Halliburton booth anyways

But yea, mess em up…

I think that before Ms. Mikolajczak promotes this particular capitalist corporation, she should do a little more research into it, such as by visiting www.halliburtonwatch.org Although many members of CAN will always promote the smaller business before the corporations, I know there are plenty of large corporations out there that I would support.

However, Halliburton is pretty much at the bottom of that list. The old argument is true: America used to support slave owners as well, who were just trying to make a living selling their crops.

Now, are we to sit by and do nothing as a company like Halliburton abuses our soldiers for its own profit?

That sounds pretty un-American to me.

~Zach Heise

get a life

I agree with the last post….As students at a pretty demanding university, I think we should have better things to do with our time.

The liberals on this campus need some therapy.

Hell if the University of Wisconsin Madison was DOING IT’S JOB TEACHING these students they would probably already be aware of Halliburton’s role in this war to begin with.

You’re right, it’s a little undemocratic that a company like Halliburton should be imposed upon. How dare we, a grassroots organization with no funding except that which every other RSO gets, attempt to step on the heels of Halliburton, a company that has made anywhere between 9 billion and 30 billion off this war? (which, as opposed to many other corporations which are prospering off this war, is A) targeting our students next week, B) Lying in order to get its funding from the government, C) actually here on campus within striking distance of concerned activists.

Trust me, we would like nothing better to go after other companies that make the machineries of war like Boeing, and Sikorsky. But Halliburton is the one coming here, and they’re one of the worst of the bunch.

Remember the Nazi rally here in Madison last year? Free speech can only extend so far, and Halliburton is only steps away from directly killing people (both Allied troops and Iraqis) to make a profit. I have no remorse for wanting to disrupt things for them as much as possible.

~Zach Heise

Halliburton sold the division that owns the Iraq and Kosovo contracts. They are no longer in the government contracting business. The company you want to protest is now called KBR, for the Kellog Brown Root company. It is now a publicly ownded company.

if i declare war on the anti war network, will they fight back?

LogCap = 1% T&M contract… any public company that makes one percent of revenues is not going to make their shareholders happy… So, when you said they made billions, you are flat out wrong.

KBR, the company HAL used to own, is trying to feed and house our troops. Something the national guard may have done in the past, but there were some base closures (recall?). So, we have to have contractors do it. That costs money.

The protestors can make all the noise they want. Any engineer knows that the oilfield is the place to be right now, so they will contact HAL any way that they can.

Oh yeah, in case you are curious… VP Cheney’s deferred compensation plan from Halliburton stopped in 2005 (at least according to his webpage). Might should double check to see if you need to print a correction.

Halliburton Stock Options Currently Held by Cheney (current to end of 2002): 100,000 shares at $54.5000 (vested), expire 12-03-07; 33,333 shares at $28.1250 (vested), expire 12-02-08; 300,000 shares at $39.5000 (vested), expire 12-02-09. Source: http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/ethics.html

I cannot find a story where it says he got rid of these stock options.

The Congressional Research Service has concluded that holding stock options while in elective office does constitute a "financial interest" whether or not the holder of the options donates the proceeds to charities, and deferred compensation is also a financial interest. Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1117-22.htm

You are correct about KBR making housing for the troops. However that LOGCAP program started to really pick up steam when Cheney was SecDef and then he was hired by Halliburton after leaving the position who suddenly picked the company up.
Source:http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/abouthal/chronology.html http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/abouthal/logcap.html

The company has received contracts valued at an estimated $25.7 billion for its work in Iraq. Among the company's low points, serving troops spoiled food. Exposing troops to contaminated water from the Euphrates river. And failing to adequately protect its contractors. And last month, the Inspector General for Iraq found Halliburton overcharged the government, $2.7 billion. Which Halliburton is still contesting. source:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/12/leahy-halliburton/ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/12/business/main2558620.shtml

Gosh, by those numbers, it looks like Cheney will be getting ahem $11,850,000 dollars by 2009 from the company that he’s no longer receiving stock options from.

We’re not stupid. We do our research. Feel free to find someplace (besides Cheney’s probably woefully outdated website) that proves our statements wrong.

It’s hard to find good things to say about Halliburton, short of the fact that they probably aren’t shoving kittens down trash compactors yet. Maybe there’s hope yet.

Protest all you want. But do it in a manner which does not disrupt the entire group of engineering students looking for work throughout this hallway/auditorium.

While I do not agree with the war or war profiteering, I do not agree with this protest, either.

We must be very careful when we feel we are justified in blocking an organization or group from representing itself. Free speech does NOT apply only to those of us who feel we are in the right.

We MUST allow students to make their own decisions regarding “right” and “wrong.” If we do not, we are no better than the government that we protest, Rupert Murdoch, or any other censor or manipulator of information.

We must also allow others the same freedoms we expect for ourselves. We will not change anyone’s minds by creating an annoying presence at a fair or by physically blocking access to a booth.

We change people’s minds with information and a presence that respects not only freedom of speech, but also the intelligence of the individual.

Roller Coasters Not Bombs

Perhaps Mikolajczak needs a reminder regarding American capitalist ethics, but as a republican perhaps this is a oxymoron;

Halliburton says moving its headquarters to Dubai to grow its oil and gas business. This may be true, but this move also protects Halliburton executives from being prosecuted in the U.S.

Dubai has no extradition treaty with the United States, so if and when it's determined how much loot Halliburton has stolen from U.S. taxpayers, their executives won't be prosecuted as long as they remain in Dubai. And even though they will continue to receive no-bid government contracts, their executives who live in Dubai won't have to pay any U.S. federal income taxes, because Dubai is a tax-free haven.

It is time to wake up - I’m sure Mikolajczak would have been defending DOW chemicals and their NAPALM if she had been here in the late 60s. However, I think history has taught us that this stance is incorrect. Is that the kind of company you want to keep? Remember, the pathway to hell is paved with the skulls of republicans.

I am surprised that folks with education can be so out of touch with reality. Haliburton is where it is at because of its military contracts (including but not limited to Iraq). they are profiteering from the deaths of my “brothers” and “sisters”. I am a retired US Army paratrooper, I opposed this war and saddened that many still believe it is still okay to send our soldiers there. I have been there. If you are such strong believers then volunteer to relieve the ones that have been there 2,3, and 4 times. I am sure they would welcome the break. Put your life on hold for your country. Oh, that’s right. I forgot, being a soldier and dying is for someone else.

Re: anonymous retired soldier - I support pulling out, and holding all the profiteers accountable for the TAXPAYER money they spent, and I sincerely hope that the CAN effort during the career fair is successful. Do it the right way and it will be worthwhile. C.McNulty SFC, US Army (retired)

…”Except for ending slavery, fascism, nazism and communism — war has never solved anything.”

A de facto slavery is still going on, fascism is America’s modus operandi in all foreign relations and official positions. What is nazism [sic]? Communism? You’re funny. War perpetuates what most of us want ended.