Army Officer Backs Racism, Sexism Charge
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 31, 2004
Filed at 6:12 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior Army contracting officer who had criticized a contract given to Halliburton had been subjected to a racist and sexist work environment, her former supervisor, a retired general, said in an affidavit.
The affidavit by retired Lt. Gen. Joe N. Ballard demonstrated the integrity of Bunnatine Greenhouse, said her attorney, Michael Kohn. Greenhouse, chief contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers , has charged that the Army showed favoritism to Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, and that she was frozen out of decisions affecting it.
That work environment ``just made it that much more difficult for Ms. Greenhouse to take the action she took. She was under immense pressure to cave in,'' Kohn said Sunday.
In the affidavit, Ballard said ``Ms. Greenhouse's race (African-American) and gender ruffled a lot of feathers in the Corps command and also contributed to the disparate and highly critical treatment she has received.''
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Halliburton.html
So, in Bush and Cheney's version of America, racism and sexism is the price of patriotism -- the true patriotism that Ms Greenhouse experienced as she tried to protect all of us from the greed and dishonesty of Cheney and his Halliburton cronies and DoD enablers.