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preocupied Donating Member (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:13 PM
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Rivals Say Halliburton Dominates Iraq Oil Wor
How can Haliburton get 7 billion dollars of work without any bidding?

We as Democrats are sleeping, we need to take to the streets.....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20030808/ts_nyt/rivalssayhalliburtondominatesiraqoilwork
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jagguy Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:24 PM
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1. maybe because
they are the world leader at the things they got work for and by a notable margin.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:34 PM
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10. LOL!
Or maybe because Vice President Cheney was CEO of Haliburton before taking office and knows that when he leaves office he'll get a nice bonus from Haliburton for all the contracts he gave them.
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:25 PM
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2. Oh Can They Line Their Pockets
Well, let's see, hmmm Dickless Cheney was formerly CEO, Oh but now that he's getting "deferred compensation" of an up to a mil and holding 8 mil in stock options, Hmmm let's think about that,shall we. Oh and what about the Carlyle Group, you know owns a subsidiary(1of164)United Defense makes the bradley, Papa Bush is a consulting liason.
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:56 PM
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3. my guess is
A large number of people on here don't even have one iota of comprehension of what Halliburton is. Wow, it's really unfortunate because then they would understand the true crime with this war.
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:08 PM
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4. Hmmmmm
Still no response to this one! Scary!
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:12 PM
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6. It might be because
this is old news to most of us here.
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:14 PM
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7. Oh yeah tell me what you know
I find that hard to believe probably little tid bits of info but don't know diddlely sqat!
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:21 PM
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8. Excuse me?
I've been researching Halliburton and cheney for over two years.

What's your problem?
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:29 PM
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9. Good for you
I think that's wonderful! Please enlighten the masses because I get the sense they either don't know or don't care or both. In addition, I'm looking for more info the nasty little privately held buzzards are really hard to track.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:11 PM
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5. Here is how they got away with it--

Republicans have their own rules...
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is awarding the contract, invoked a clause in government procurement procedures allowing it to bypass the normal competitive bidding process on the grounds of “urgent circumstances”...

http://www.thesyndrome.com/archives/00000103.htm
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