# One more way the GOP supports the troops **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313 "2006-01-23T22:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313/61 "2006-01-25T16:27:04Z")
OK, the guy quit instead of being fired? I guess that makes him more disgruntled than if he had been canned? Maybe he quit as a matter of conscience, or he quit because he was not getting the response from his employer he felt he should have. On the other hand of he had been fired, it would make him more disgruntled - whichever happened would be the cause of massive disgruntling and suit your purpose. I guess if he had just retired, it would be a case of “he’s old and senile”. Under the verbage, I keep hearing the phrase “let’s wait until all the facts are in”. We’ve been waiting for all the facts on pretty much everything that’s happened since before the first “great mandate”, through the re-election (great mandate the sequel) on beyond. Each time, it turns out in the final analysis that my/our worst suspicions were right, and we’ve had smoke blown up our ass again. Lies, cover-ups, denials, and defiance are all we get from the Bush White House, every time they get caught out again. How many abject failures, disasters, scandals, and foul-ups will it take? I automatically assume the worst, because that is what we tend to get. How about some faqcts or cites that do NOT come from Halliburton? Halliburton “press releases” are not evidence. How about some evidence from an independent and unbiased source that the water was not tainted? Meanwhile I will continue to assume the worst. I haven’t been let down yet. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313/62 "2006-01-25T17:04:14Z")
This also was not just the allegations of just one person. There were at least three people… William Granger: “We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated,” said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, the official for Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait. Ben Carter: Ben Carter, Halliburton’s former water-treatment expert at Camp Junction City, said he discovered the problem last March, a statement confirmed by his e-mail the day after he tested the water. Ken May: Another former Halliburton employee who worked at the base, Ken May of Louisville, said there were numerous instances of diarrhea and stomach cramps. _A July 14, 2005, memo showed that Halliburton’s public relations department knew of the problem._ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313/63 "2006-01-25T17:11:01Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Ken May: > Another former Halliburton employee who worked at the base, Ken May of Louisville, said there were numerous instances of diarrhea and stomach cramps. Correlation not necessarily causation. There are lots of things in Iraq besides the water that can give you the trots. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313/64 "2006-01-25T18:51:40Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Correlation not necessarily causation. There are lots of things in Iraq besides the water that can give you the trots. Since you selectively chose this item and excluded the other two, let me ask you this: How many other things would cause William Granger, the official for Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait to write: “We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated”? Are you willing to wax philosophically about correlation and causation on this matter as well? Certainly it could be that he had a gun to his head when he wrote that. Perhaps he was paid a lot of money to lie. Maybe he’s a Democrat and has family ties to the Wilson administration? If you are honestly trying to address the matter, why select that one bit to get excited about? I don’t think you are honestly trying to address the matter. I think you are being a partisan lickspittle. I believe your personal integrity is exposed as exceedingly weak by your posts on this matter. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313/65 "2006-01-25T19:12:16Z")
This post is comedy gold. > [@Scylla](#): > > Everything the Democrats say or do is complete bullshit. This include Joe Lieberman too? > [@](#): > > In support of these presupposed conclusions they will latch onto any flimsy story or interpret all evidence and sift through all information mining those nuggets that support the viewpoint. How’s that WMD hunt going? > [@](#): > > They will ignore the existance and deny any contradictory evidence. Mr. Pot meet Mr. Kettle > [@](#): > > I don’t beleive Durgan gives a shit about the troops, and frankly I don’t think you do either. I think you’re total concern is how you can use them and this incident to make the GOP or Bush look bad, and I think it’s deplorable and disgusting. I trust you feel the same way on that “bring the troops home today” vote the repubs put up a few weeks ago? > [@](#): > > So, instead of asking why the GOP is unconcerned, I’d like to ask why the Democrats are so stupid, gullible, and intent upon making their poltiical opponents look bad even at the expense of their own integrity. McCain, Cleeland, Kerry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-more-way-the-gop-supports-the-troops/341313.md?page=3)