Halliburton involved in human trafficking

For just a second, that confused me. "What's the big deal?" I wondered. Isn't everyone who drives a car involved in human trafficking? I don't even drive a car, but sometimes I use a crosswalk, and that slows down traffic. :)

Then I realized, "Halliburton involved in human trafficking" is just a friendly way of saying "Halliburton = Slavery".

Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.

The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly hired as kitchen staff by the then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners. Once they arrived in Jordan, however, their passports were seized and they were dispatched to Iraq.
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Only one man survived. After he was released by Iraqi rebels, he said he was assigned to work as a loader/unloader in a US military warehouse facility supervised by KBR. He asserts that he was held for 15 months against his well [sic], before the firm finally allowed him to return home to Nepal.

Wow. Talk about your clusterfucks of a traffic jam. I've gotten home from work late before (due to bad traffic), but this is taking it to a new extreme.

That sort of thing ought to be illegal! Oh, wait, it is.

Crib notes for everyone out there who might not drawing the connection:

1. Slavery = Halliburton, (established above)
   
2. Halliburton = Cheney, (34 million $ Conflict of Interest)
   
3. Cheney = Bush, (Impeach the bastards!)
   
4. Bush = McCain. (Don't vote for Bush's 3rd Term!)
   

Thus, the transitive property suggests that McCain = Slavery. No big surprise there.

Tangential reminder: Halliburton / KBR have government contracts to build, maintain, and staff detainment camps in the US for use in the event of Martial Law. Sorta takes you back to Nazi Germany, doesn't it?