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...region--and talked with moderate politicians, businesspeople and military officials. Most found Bush's moral talk either duplicitous or fatuous. "Liberate Iraq? Rubbish," said a prominent Jordanian businessman. "You occupy Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy and freedom to the barbarians. But who are the barbarians? Even before the Abu Ghraib pictures, we saw male soldiers searching Iraqi...
...region-and talked with moderate politicians, businesspeople and military officials. Most found Bush's moral talk either duplicitous or fatuous. "Liberate Iraq? Rubbish," said a prominent Jordanian businessman. "You occupy Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy and freedom to the barbarians. But who are the barbarians? Even before the Abu Ghraib pictures, we saw male soldiers searching Iraqi...
...invested in defense contractors who are making increased profits as a result of the war. As much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of the occupation of Iraq is going to independent contractors, and Harvard has tens of millions of dollars invested in companies including Halliburton, Northrop Corp. and JP Morgan Chase & Co., among others...
...reference to Cheney and his connection with the oil-and-gas behemoth Halliburton, you quoted a presidential adviser who said, "People aren't going to care about Halliburton ... They're going to care about who can protect them." Such arrogance! Washington insiders seem to think that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid U.S. government contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers...
...reference to Cheney and his connection with the oil-and-gas behemoth Halliburton, you quoted a presidential adviser who said, "People aren't going to care about Halliburton ... They're going to care about who can protect them." Such arrogance! Washington insiders seem to think that Americans are indifferent to the obscene amounts of money that companies like Halliburton are making in Iraq with no-bid contracts. Of course we are concerned about terrorism, but that doesn't mean we're not frustrated by seeing the Halliburtons of the country make a profit from American taxpayers. Woe to those politicians...