All Roads Lead to Houston

This is a one-page ad which ran in the Wall Street Journal recently. Navistar thanking WSJ-readin' Americans for their contract. Who gave Navistar this sweet deal to build MRAP's?

A blogger writing at stationed-in-iraq, who says he is a truck driver, tells of a nasty experience at the Halliburton Fuel Point at Navistar just across the Kuwait border, and a later shaky series of competing offers he receives from Halliburton and another representative claiming to be ''based at Navistar.''

This reservist says he was interested in working for Halliburton after his tour to score the $100,000 salary. Halliburton made him a job offer, but two days later a competing company offered to buy a job site he also ran --www.Jobs-in-Iraq, a site which did not post Halliburton listings (because they were unwilling to pay for being listed by his service.)

He was ''a competitor'' of sorts, and his hit counter let him know that 15-20% of the hits were coming from Halliburton servers.

It was the good cop-bad cop routine, and being skeptical, he researched the Navistar-based representative's company's holdings in Iraq, tracing a trail back to the States. ''[A]nd guess where they're based out of. . .Houston, Texas the home of Halliburton!!'' Golly.

Food for thought.

--Lisa