Local paper "My Turn" that is evidence of changing fortunes for Bush*

[Bandit]

http://juneauempire.com/stories/091003/opi_myturn.shtml

The Washington Post reported that Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth billions of dollars out of Operation Iraqi Freedom from no-bid contracts BushCo awarded it. Here is a partial breakdown:
Fully one-third of the $3.9 billion per month cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going directly to Halliburton.
$1 billion has been paid Halliburton through mid-August alone, plus ...
$705 million for an initial round of oil field work.
$142 million for base camp operations in Kuwait.
$170 million for logistical support for Iraqi reconstruction.
$28 million for construction of POW camps.
$39 million for base camps in Jordan.
$183 million for Afghanistan.
A staggering $300 million jumbo contract for the Navy, and (brace yourself) ...
An eye-popping $7 billion to put out non-existent fires at Iraqi oil wells.
The sheer size of Halliburton's incredible windfall from BushCo is breathtaking - and, there's no end in sight!
5. Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, the world's largest oil pipeline manufacturer, during the 1990s. Will you finally admit that Cheney, through September 2001, used his influence as vice president to make deals with the Taliban and others to build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan down to a failing Enron power plant in Dabhol, India, near Bombay? Isn't it true that a Taliban representative was in Washington, D.C. on 9-11 to discuss that very project?
6. Why is it that the unfolding scandal of Halliburton's own corrupt accounting practices, similar to Enron's, costing taxpayers and stockholders hundreds of millions of dollars, which occurred while Cheney was CEO in the late '90s, is given so little attention in the media at this time?

[Brucey]

1. Cheney's still

getting money from Halliburton. And, of all the money looted from the national treasury, how much of it went to executives and how much to the Iraqi people?

[DemoVet]

2. The media doesn't report this

because Mr. Rove wouldn't like that. Besides, endless war is good for the ratings.

[Trajan]

3. These GOP assholes ....

Have SHUT DOWN the needed services that everyday citizens need by closing the money tap on those necessary institutions .... and they have OPENED the taps: ... DIRECT taps ... to feed their cronies in the 'private sector' BILLIONS in taxpayer funds directly from the public dole .....

They are draining the national trust for personal gain, all in the guise of 'rebuilding' ....

It is absurd that so many cannot see this ...

This is Kleptocracy De Lux .....

What an outrage ! .....

[ozymandius]

4. It would not surprise me if Halliburton

were blowing up the pipelines themselves. After all, they are the de facto governmental overseers for Iraq's oil infrastructure.

[janekat]

5. there's sooo many scandals ready to blow.....

and more than half of them are related to Cheney.

Most of these scandals are well-known to all of us BUT since they don't have anything to do with SEX - there's no outrage about them from the media or the public...

The Cheney energy task force cover-up, the Enron/Ken Lay-Bush/Cheney
cover-up, the 9/11 cover-up, the Afghanistan pipeline cover-up, ALL of the lies that were told about Iraq by Dubya AND Poppy for the last 10 years, the Bush-Bin Ladin family connection cover-up, the 2000 "stolen election" cover-up - and I could go on and on...