Reply #6: Those are some great books!

[Octafish]

Thanks for the heads-up, punpirate. Read Phillip's and index the snot out of Kelley's. Charles Higham's "Trading with the Enemy" sounds like an excellent resource.

Institute for Southern Studies:

“There is such a thirst for gain …that it is enough to make one curse their own Species, for possessing so little virtue and patriotism.”  -- President George Washington, 1778

Some dots from the hoary past to the present Memorial Day the presstitutes have failed to connect:

MAKING A KILLING: The New War Profiteers

By Chris Kromm
 
 I.

“President Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion dollars to rebuild Iraq. And when you make out that check, remember there are two L’s in Halliburton.”  -- David Letterman, Late Show, September 2003
 
When all-purpose conglomerate Halliburton Co. was recently criticized for landing no-bid government contracts worth billions of dollars for post-war reconstruction in Iraq, the company’s Dallas-based executives must have been taken somewhat by surprise.
 
After all, it’s not like this was the first time the company had benefited handsomely from the spoils of war. Shortly after the 9/11 tragedies, Halliburton had been discreetly handed a non-competitive, no-cap, multi-year deal for “forward deployment” operations, earning them over a billion dollars and counting.
 
That deal failed to elicit mainstream outrage, as did the fact that, as National Public Radio journalist John Barnett recently revealed, Halliburton’s government contracts doubled from 1995 to 2000, when Dick Cheney was at the company’s helm and Democratic President Bill Clinton in the White House.
 
Halliburton’s windfalls from war—like those of most other companies that have benefited from an aggressive U.S. foreign policy—are rooted in a long-running, bipartisan confluence of government policy and corporate power. Indeed, it was in 1962 that Halliburton took over Brown and Root, a Texas company instrumental in launching the career of one Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson returned the favor during the Vietnam War, steering millions in military contracts to his long-time backers.
 
Then, as now, allegations flew of favoritism, corruption, and profiteering by well-connected corporations. Leading the charge? An upstart Congressional Representative from Illinois, Donald Rumsfield.

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http://www.southernstudies.org/reports/Intro.htm

SOURCE:

http://www.southernstudies.org /

The BFEE makes me so mad -- at this time of year, especially.

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