Word: halliburtons
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...Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude--which seemed equal parts real and sham--dissolved into griping within days. One wonders how they will receive their newly designated American saviors, Bechtel and a division of Halliburton...
...Iraqis moved with unseemly haste from dancing in the streets to stealing everything that wasn't tied down. Worse, their gratitude - which seemed equal parts real and sham - dissolved into griping within days. One wonders how they will receive their newly designated American saviors, Bechtel and a division of Halliburton...
...government to the Middle East. "He's not much for waxing rhapsodic," says Gribbin of his old boss. In fact, when Cheney left government, he gave the impression that he wasn't thinking much about Iraq or Saddam. In 1995 he moved to Texas to serve as CEO of Halliburton, the giant oil-services company. A colleague of Cheney's in both Bush administrations recalled how he would drop by Cheney's office when he visited Texas. "His interest in policy almost disappeared," says the colleague. "He was enjoying being out of it and in the business world...
...this war’s wake, the Bush administration has planned to contract Iraq’s rebuilding to private, exclusively American corporations—including a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s very own Halliburton. Experienced non-profit and international organizations will largely be bypassed. Judging on how it has reneged on most of its commitments to liberated Afghanistan, the U.S.’s pledge to fund Iraq’s rebuilding and help alleviate its current humanitarian crisis is dubious at best. We should not let ourselves be duped again by public-relations farces...
...come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble." - By Charles P. Wallace/Berlin Reconstructive Criticism It was about as discreet as a Rumsfeld one-liner: the U.S. has requested bids for $900 million to rebuild Iraq, using only American companies - including Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton. That prompted British M.P. Vincent Cable, backed by rapturous cheers, to ask Prime Minister Tony Blair if he was "embarrassed" to support a President who regards "war as an opportunity to dish out contracts to his cronies." The Foreign Office later said "it seems perfectly fair that if American money...