ABC News To talk about Haliburton and Price Gouging

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1. Showing Aussie protests

during Bush's visit.

Also showing the hecklers from the Government

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Henry Waxman: Haliburton's prices are %70-%80 higher

The Haliburton Contract is classified, so no one can see it

Not the first time Haliburton has been caught, they over charged for plywood after the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo

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3. $89/sheet vs. $14 for plywood back then.

What's up with classifying commercial, non-military contracts "secret". I love it that they noted Halliburton had experience in handling "classified" contracts...LOL, of course they do! Otherwise their CEO's would be in prison....along with their CEO Criminal-emeritus, Dick Cheney.

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4. I posted this article earlier - take a look if you haven't yet

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ24Ak02.html

What will be paid to US-chosen contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel - at a price set by these contractors themselves - will be paid out of this fund. Not only that, the fund will also be used by the US Export and Import Bank for extending credit to any US company that hopes to start business in Iraq or that wishes to buy any of the formerly Iraqi-owned corporations that will be sold off by the US as part of Iraq's massive privatization scheme.

The Iraqis will, therefore, be paying American corporations for rebuilding the bridges, the hospitals, the schools, the irrigation systems, the power grids and almost everything else which the US - as prodded on by these corporations - destroyed. They will also be paying US investors to take over the corporations that the Iraqi people previously collectively owned, but which will now be sold off without their authorization...

According to Washington lawyer Robert Kyle, the fund will be "subject to a less formal approach in their allocation than those from USAID which used taxpayers' money."

By "less formal", the lawyer must have meant spending $6,000 for a mobile phone that normally costs $495 only per set, $33,000 for a pickup truck that normally costs half that, and $55,000 for a prison bed that usually costs only $14,000 - as current details provided in Bush's budget request for Iraq shows when compared with actual market prices of these items...