Halliburton Contracts Illegal -- Bush & Cheney Say So What

[Demeter]

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/Pringle0217.htm

"After millions of tax dollars were spent investigating how Halliburton ended up being awarded billions of dollar worth of no-bid contracts in Iraq, the Government Accounting Office determined that the company should never have been awarded the contracts in the first place. .....

According to the GAO's report, Rebuilding Iraq: Fiscal Year 2003 Contract Award Procedures and Management Challenges, contracts worth billions of dollars were awarded without full and open competition, including Halliburton’s oil infrastructure contract. The GAO found that the Bush Administration violated procurement law when it issued various task orders under existing contracts. Of the eleven task orders examined, more than half were awarded outside the scope of their contracts, according to the report....

Finally, during a March 11, 2004 hearing before the Government Reform Committee, six senior officials from the CPA and DOD testified under oath and were asked to answer the following question by Republican Committee Chairman Tom Davis:

“I want to get this on the record, and everybody is under oath. Have you or anyone in your office ever discussed with the Vice President or with his office the award of a contract for Iraqi reconstruction prior to any contract being awarded?”

Every single one of those six officials said “no sir,” which means every single one of them lied under oath. So how Cheney could pull this off? How could he get all these people to lie? I may not know how he did it, but the fact is he did it and nothing has been done about it."


We've said it before, but once more with feeling:

IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH!

[Ralounews]

1. Wake Up America!

Please, please wake up!

They're killing you, and me, and everyone while you sleep and dream of reality TV.

:nuke:

[Gyre]

2. "So how Cheney could pull this off?"

How did he get the CIA to change their assessments re: Iraq WMDs to what they knew was patently false? Two things: 1) he's the VP of a quasi-fascist regime who makes his wishes known and has a monstrous machine of retribution at his disposal, and 2) he's convinced them that if they don't hang together, they'll hang separately (which is probably true).

Clearly, it doesn't matter how many "defectors" from this diseased administration there are; them mainstream media will either ignore or marginalize them.

I think we ought to personally target media hacks and shills for major discomfort. That is the only consequence that hasn't yet been tried. As far as I'm concerned, the real traitors are members of the mainstream press.

Gyre

[indepat]

3. Illegal. smelegal, who gives a crap, who will stop it? No one

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Not Gonzales, that's for sure. He only enforces laws against Dems.

[applegrove]

4. It's the end game stupid!! Don't ya love Neocon 'assumptions!'

[Disturbed]

6. The Whore Media ...

has been complicit in the illegal invasion of a sovereign country which posed no threat to the U.S. They are part of the Fascist Regime that has taken over Amerika and the Dem party has allowed itself to be nuetered like the lap dogs they are.

[applegrove]

7. The MSM I've watched has been mighty fiesty of late. And yes many

people have been intimidated into silence. And it isn't fun. And the whole world will back 'peace' in Iraq because it has to work out in the end... USA is egg on its face is not a good thing for world peace. So everyone will hold hands (and their breath) and wait until these next 4 years are over.

You do it because you are afraid that more people will get hurt if you don't. Not because you want to.

[libodem]

8. So what....my ass!!!!!

[struggle4progress]

9. kick