See Dick Loot

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See Dick Loot
By Dahr Jamail
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Wednesday 08 March 2006

Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. It is, of course, no coincidence that the man sitting as vice president played a key role with his influence in obtaining the lion's share of contracts in Iraq for the company he was CEO of prior to his self-appointed position. Yet none of this is news.

What is news, however, is that the ties that bind Cheney to Halliburton also link him to groups with even broader interests in the Middle East, which are causing civilians on the ground there, as well as in the US, to pay the price.

Cheney had much more at stake than pure altruism in making sure Halliburton/KBR obtained so many no-bid contracts in occupied Iraq. Despite his claims of not having any financial ties to Halliburton, the fact is that in both 2001 and 2002 he earned twice as much from a deferred salary from his "old" company than when he was CEO.

But that wasn't the beginning. When Cheney was US Secretary of Defense in the early 1990's under Big Bush, Halliburton was awarded the job of studying, then implementing, the privatization of routine army functions such as cleaning and cooking meals.

Following this study, when Cheney was finished with his job at the Pentagon, he scored the job as CEO of Halliburton, which he held until nominating himself for the position of Little Bush's running mate in 2000. Remember, it was Cheney who was given the task of finding a running mate for Bush. After searching far and wide across the US, Cheney ended up generously offering his own services to the job.

much more
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030806Z.shtml

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1. Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)

Shouldn't that be...

Kill (all) Brown (folks), and Loot?

Just askin'....

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Remember . . .

. . . and we've got plenty of ammunition.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Given the 'reality' that they create - could the deception of the

1999-2000 primaries when they conducted a fake search for VP - that they were simply looking for someone they could lock on to for the day when Dick left the VP office? Was their pretend search only a search to find out who they could line up to continue the PNAC agenda and who could accept the goodies? Were they promised Halliburton and KBR wealth when the job was done? Surely, if this is the way it went, they seemed to have won over McCain given the positions he has taken since and the coordinated effort to promote him for 2008. There is no denying that McCain changed during the past six years.