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Gorp

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6. Perhaps it has been forgotten, but in 2004, Bush paid $8b to Halliburton for...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 05:06 PM

Feb 2013

... undocumented expenses. I view that as an admission that he was going to lose the election. He just wanted to slip Cheney's buddies a golden parachute under the radar. But, as was anticipated, his cronies at the Supreme Court gave him a SECOND unelected term. Halliburton still walked away with $8b free of obligation.

Oh, and what about those non-grounded shower electrocutions? Was anyone at Halliburton charged for those criminal failures? Not that I recall.

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