VLVL2 Vietnam War protests
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 10 15:18:43 CST 2004
I wonder if Frenesi got any footage of this protest
action?
"In 1962, Brown & Root sold out to Halliburton, a
booming oil-well construction-and-services firm, and
in the following years the conglomerate grew
spectacularly. According to Dan Briody, who has
written a book on the subject, Brown & Root was part
of a consortium of four companies that built about
eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by
the Army during the Vietnam War. At the height of the
resistance to the war, Brown & Root became a target of
protesters, and soldiers in Vietnam derided it as Burn
& Loot."
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact>
The New Yorker article, in the current issue, is well
worth reading, by the way, regarding VP Cheney and
war-profiteering Halliburton's greed at work in Iraq.
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