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Marilyn Strickland: “On one point, returning soldiers have told me that Halliburton is literally importing Filipinos to do much of the work…”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2004
On one point, returning soldiers have told me that Halliburton is literally importing Filipinos to do much of the work in Iraq. As the gentleman said, the Iraqi people are unemployed. They have no source of support for themselves and their families. They are just unemployed with no incomes. And yet Halliburton is importing Filipinos and workers from other parts of the world who will provide cheap labor for them while the Iraqis go unemployed. That is just one example of the terrible policy that this administration is following right now.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the employment of foreign workers by Halliburton in Iraq during a speech.

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