You know that it's gotten righteously bad when the biggest Kahuna at CheneyBurton Corp wants to get all the employees to send out thoughtful letters supporting their company.

Such a nice man. Remember, these are the same corporate leaders who will send your job overseas for their own self-interest, and ask you to support giving them a great retirement as they rob the pension funds of your company. Such nice men and women. Will we all be working for Wal-Mart soon or will that be the fate of our returning troops.

One of the talking points in Lesar's memo, sent last Friday, was that "Halliburton makes our troops more comfortable in a difficult environment by bringing shelter, supplies, clean uniforms and mail from home." According to published reports, however, as few as 20 percent of American soldiers in Iraq have access to purified water and entire units are suffering from dysentery. One senior military commander wrote that soldiers were "using hoses from an Iraqi latrine stall to get water enough to maintain their hygienic needs."