No WMD and No Imminent Threat means Halliburton was not needed

frank frankly

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Mon Dec-15-03 09:15 PM
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No WMD and No Imminent Threat means Halliburton was not needed

The reason given for awarding no-bid contracts to Halliburton was that there was no time for bids. There was no time because Saddam had nuclear weapons and a drone airforce plus ammunition dumps of chemical weapons around Tikrit. There was no time because of impending mushroom clouds.

But there were no WMD. So there could have been bids and while not many companies could do the work, there are enough to make it unlikely Halliburton would get almost everything.

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frank frankly

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:06 PM
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1. a kick

kick

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frank frankly

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:09 PM
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3. kick

I mean it's simple, but very important, right?

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David Zephyr

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:08 PM
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2. Kick!

:kick:

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arewethereyet

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:12 PM
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4. don't think so

the work falling under that program of pre-bidding work like this was predicated more on immediacy than threat. The country was in a crumbling state, water, electrical, petrolium etc were a mess and needed to start getting addressed so life could go on.

Unfortunately the Haliburton thing is a coincidence.

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SmokeyBlues

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:14 PM
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5. Mo money, mo money, mo money!

Did I hear correctly that Halliburton was recently awarded another contract for around $225 meg?

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frank frankly

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:15 PM
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6. yup

lots of places we bombed, dontcha know?

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SmokeyBlues

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:20 PM
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7. All is right with the world

Yeah, but we captured Saddam, so all is right with the world. Nothing to see at Haliburton, move along.

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havocmom

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:29 PM
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8. the whole thing is a diversion for the robbing of the US Treasury

by the filthy rich and morally bankrupt US corporations who are the puppet masters of the maladministration.

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frank frankly

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Mon Dec-15-03 10:42 PM
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9. a kick for lurking Rush Limbaugh fans who are "cruising" our site

a kick for you, jeff christie!

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frank frankly

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Tue Dec-16-03 07:35 PM
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10. thoughts

Kick

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