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madame_zora said:Well BND, your posts would make sense, except that they don't. Are you saying that Halliburton HASN'T gotten a huge cut of the money? Or are you saying you're okay with that? or are you just adding your .02 to make no point at all, as usual?
For the billionth time, I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool democrat, and never have been. That's a limp excuse to keep deriding me, but I guess it's all you've got.
http://lpsg.org/showthread.php?t=24859
I thought I was wasting my limp excuse to deride you in commenting on your continual fascination with conspiracy theories, not in purely being a dyed in the wool democrat. Besides, even if my $.02 has devalued to a fraction of a penny, that's never stopped me before.
Sure, Halliburton has earned quite a bit of money during this war. Part of it because of connections (that's been going on since our country began, right or wrong) and part of it because they are very good at doing some things in this world that other companies cannot do. In either event, there should be stricter review of all government contracts from the standpoint of payment for performance, but it seems neither party wants to go there. One thing to add to the list of things to do in this country is to reform the process for granting gov't contracts. You can hate no-bid contracts all you want, but sometime take a look at the process you do have to go thru to legitmately get a contract and say that's fair.
Also, more Presidents that just those surnamed Bush make a habit of calling on Halliburton to do certain jobs - just check under Clinton's resume and you'll see he too called upon them..more than once.
And they have more going for them than just being Dick Cheney's old company insofar as the way they keep their bills paid. With the oil market as tight as it has been the past few years, nearly all oil/oil services stocks have seen large run-ups in their market values. Yes, especially Halliburton, who for one thing specializes in "pressure pumping" (which has nothing to do with sex). They virtually own the market when it comes to getting the last drop out of old oil wells that,when prices were $10-15/barrel, nobody cared about but when prices are $50+, everyone cares about. That ability has certainly added to their bottom line.
It's your right to hate Bush all you want. It's just kind of sad that you're sold, lock, stock, and barrel, on the belief he'd keep troops in the field purposely just to keep Halliburton in a contract...with the Dems and Reps in Congress' consent. But, I guess this 21st Century version of "All the President's Men" is all you've got.