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...scrappy, underdog nation that needs to fight against the privileged bullies. Not me. I've never rooted for underdogs, or, as I like to call them, losers. I loved the preening arrogance of those great Dallas Cowboys teams. I wish Shaq were a little bit bigger. For me, every Halliburton contract is a tiny victory...
...scrappy, underdog nation that needs to fight against the privileged bullies. Not me. I've never rooted for underdogs, or, as I like to call them, losers. I loved the preening arrogance of those great Dallas Cowboys teams. I wish Shaq were a little bit bigger. For me, every Halliburton contract is a tiny victory...
Once a complement to Bush, Cheney now seems to amplify the President's liabilities. Back in 2000, most people had never heard of Halliburton, the oil-and-gas-and-contracting behemoth that Cheney headed before being tapped by Bush. Cheney isn't helped by the fact that Halliburton has benefited from the Iraq war he championed or that investigations of the company seem to multiply. The Justice Department last week launched a review into alleged bribes the company had flung around the globe in order to obtain foreign contracts. Cheney ran the company during part of the time frame covered...
Senior White House aides say they are not worried that Cheney is weighing down the ticket. He's a great fund raiser and base motivator. "These are serious times, and he's a serious guy," says a presidential adviser. "People aren't going to care about Halliburton...They're going to care about who can protect them." For his part, Cheney is amused by the Democratic attacks. "That's politics," he says to friends, grinning his trademark half grin and shrugging his shoulders to signal there's nothing to worry about. --By Matthew Cooper/Washington
...INDICATORS Supply and Demand Halliburton has been ordered to reimburse the Pentagon $27.4 million after allegedly overcharging for meals it supplied to the U.S. military. And American justice officials demanded documents relating to allegations that a Halliburton-led consortium paid $180 million in illegal commissions to build a plant in Nigeria in the '90s - the subject of an ongoing probe in France...