Glance at $2.2 Billion Halliburton Iraq Contract (Cheney's company)

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_oil_glance&cid=540&ncid=1473

Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, has been awarded more than $2.2 billion for rebuilding Iraq's oilfields.


Here's how the money breaks down:


1. Training and advice for dealing with oil spills and positioning equipment: $10.7 million.


2. Design work for quick repair of oil facilities: $1.5 million

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[DCDemo]

1. They forgot

100. Build in overblown pricing to create 100% profit of 10 billion dollars - to be blamed on sub-contracters, suppliers, typos, and billing errors.

[arcane1]

2. payments to tortured Gulf War POW's = $0 million

By PHILIP SHENON

Published: November 10, 2003


WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 — The Bush administration is seeking to
block a group of American troops who were tortured in Iraqi
prisons during the Persian Gulf war in 1991 from collecting
any of the hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen Iraqi
assets they won last summer in a federal court ruling against
the government of Saddam Hussein

In a court challenge that the administration is winning so
far but is not eager to publicize, administration lawyers
have argued that Iraqi assets frozen in bank accounts in the
United States are needed for Iraqi reconstruction and that
the judgment won by the 17 former American prisoners should
be overturned.

-snip-

But they say the case cannot be allowed to hinder American
foreign policy and get in the way of the administration's
multibillion-dollar reconstruction efforts in Iraq — an
argument that federal appeals courts seem likely to accept

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/international/middleeast/10POWS.html?hp

[54anickel]

3. But where is the outrage on this? Where is McCain, Kerry, anybody!

This just made me so angry when I first heard of it.
Thanks for posting and reminding me. There has been sooooo much BS that it is hard to track it all lately.

[arcane1]

4. I feel it cannot be posted enough!

I had already gone apoplectic over this, BEFORE the Halliburton price-gouging stories hit the news. Now, I have been driven stark-raving mad with rage

:grr::mad::grr::nuke:

see this thread for the Whitey House "official" spin on the matter, and let your head explode like you know it wants to :evilfrown:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=892404

[bahrbearian]

6. Kerrry did burn em'

He spoke of the 61 millon should have gone for armored vest's to the troops.

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5. David Brooks sez its not as bad as it looks!

Can ya believe this crap?

[stevebreeze]

7. wana bet?

that the "sub contractor" is somehow feeding money back to Hallaburtin? Either through kickbacks or some other arangement.
:kick: