Halliburton’s Hella Good Deal
Friday, July 21st, 2006 by RLRFrom Tom Paine
By Charlie Cray
Last week, the Army announced with much fanfare that it was canceling the monopoly logistics contract that Halliburton/KBR has used to bilk U.S. taxpayers since the occupation of Iraq began. The contract will be broken up and divided among at least three different companies, but it’s not clear that this will make much difference to taxpayers, or even that Halliburton will stop making a killing.
The new policy is, in effect, tacit recognition of the epidemic of waste, fraud and poor contract oversight that have plagued the Iraq occupation from the start. It vindicates key congressional critics, such as Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., whose dogged persistence has exposed a cornucopia of corruption associated with contracts like Halliburton’s. Yet, if the history of the Iraq contracts so far is any indication, that’s about as much as can be read into the policy.
The history of Halliburton’s other major contract in Iraq–the oil contract–indicates the need for skepticism. It is well known that Halliburton received its first oil contract (RIO I) as the result of a dubious no-bid contract ordered by top Pentagon officials (including Paul Wolfowitz)–a decision that was coordinated with the vice president’s office, according to a Pentagon e-mail uncovered by Judicial Watch.
The rest, as they say, is history. After getting a leg up on all potential competitors, KBR also used its incestuous relationship with the Army Corps of Engineers to extract a second no-bid oil contract (RIO II).
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I am of the opinion that corporate corruption and war profiteering are not serious issues for Congress. Neither do I believe that the Democrats will make a campaign issue of it because most of them suckle the same defense industry tit as the republicans.
If that is the case then the little person is in big trouble.
it seems that waxman and the rest are true patriots with enough balls to set things right. Know that we out here in the heartland are eternally grateful for your courage and the hope you offer us Mr. Waxman………..now let’s get the main stream media to report on all you do………can that be done? I propose a NO PURCHASE DAY as a good peaceful protest……………every 30 days a majority of us will just not purchase a single item or gallon of gas……..is this a farout concept???………..I suppose not as far out as a Kent State student standing peacefully before many soldiers armed to the teeth……………where are the activists? where is the courage? where is the truth in reporting, the backbone, the courageous media………..it seems folks like waxman are the beginning of the backlash that must take place if we are to save our country, our economy, and perhaps the world. Michael
Here!Here!
Michael
I wouldn’t count on Democrats – they no longer represent their constituencies either.
Except maybe 3-4 senators, Ron Paul comes to mind, need to expunged from our government. Nothing our, so called representatives, do anything remotely what the people want or demand. A police state is upon us all. The Third Reich never died, it just moved addresses. There is only one way to stop all this madness, and it will get worse before it gets better, and that is to expose 9/11 as an inside job. A false flag operations, demonstrated many times in the past (Tonkin, Maine, Pearl Harbor, Waco, Ruby ridge, WTC in 93, FBI building in 95), are used by tyrranical governments/military industry/defense/intelligence agencies/defense corps to advance open agendas that aren’t covered by our infotainment media.
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Alex Jones new documentary, TerrorStorm, exposes with absolute clarity of the false flag operations of the past to oppress and subvert all peoples of many nations, especially the US.
‘Those who live in the proverbial box; are destined to be buried in it.’
Wow. What a hard-hitting article. Halliburton has no-bid contracts. Whodathunkit. Too bad all the pussy Dems in Congress and the House have said ZERO on this subject. I can’t even believe that you have a website declaring Liberalism when it has gone hand-in-glove with the Neocons in DESTROYING the uSA. Two sides of the same coin, bitches! Do you guys even have a figurehead for 2008? Y
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