Halliburton handed Iraq contract (scam continues)

jokerman93

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:34 AM
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Halliburton handed Iraq contract (scam continues)

Halliburton handed Iraq contract
Richard Thomson in New York, Evening Standard
16 December 2003

US Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, facing demands to pay back the money it has overcharged the American government for petrol in Iraq, has won a $222m (£127m) contract for work without competitive tender.

The contract was awarded to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root last week at the same time as a Pentagon audit showed it had charged $61m more than the market rate for fuel in Iraq.

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid71939?source=

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placton

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:37 AM
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1. Let's look at this in real life terms:

You walk into the 7-11, to pay for the gas you pumped. You are overcharged by, say, $61 million. Would you EVER go back to the same place? For anything?

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ameriphile

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:56 AM
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2. Sure you would...

...if you were spending someone else's money, and if 7-11 were paying you a percentage of their profits.

Welcome to Dick Cheney's America!

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tom_paine

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Tue Dec-16-03 11:59 AM
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3. My God, the brazen and shameless corruption they practice

Right out in the open, daring the Imperial Subjects of Amerika, "And just what are YOU going to do about it? Vote us out on our handy-dandy Diebold machines our chums made with just the right amount of back doors...?"

Disgusting. I miss the Old American Republic. Maybe it can still be restored...

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schultzee

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Tue Dec-16-03 02:11 PM
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4. Corporatist pigs. If there were creating work here, it would

still be wrong. But those corporate pigs are stealing our taxpayer dollars and just fixing what the war destroyed.

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nothingshocksmeanymore

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Tue Dec-16-03 03:19 PM
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5. kick

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0007

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Tue Dec-16-03 04:05 PM
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6. This thing with Halliburton is unbelievable!

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Just Me

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Tue Dec-16-03 04:18 PM
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7. Mussolini said,...

,...that fascism is really just a merger of corporation and state. Are we there yet?

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