HW32: Responding to Riverbend KBR

In the book Baghdad Burning by Riverbend, on page 78 she talks about KBR and foreign contractors in Iraq. KBR stands for Kellogg, Brown and Root, a part of the oil company Halliburton. Riverbend quotes them as saying “They handle construction and engineering services for the energy community.” I think in this blog post Riverbend is trying to prove to her readers that Iraqi’s are capable of rebuilding their own country, they have don’t it before and they can do it again. American government is giving American companies all the work to be done in Iraq and the Iraqi’s are not able to work and make money so they have no money to buy anything to feed their families. She also mentions that American companies are hiring Iraqi help but not paying them the correct amount of money for the work that they are doing or not giving them enough money to complete the projects that are set before them. I find it mind boggling that we went into Iraq to help them build into a developed country and what are we doing, we are taking al the money ourselves and not even giving the Iraqi people a chance to help themselves.