Cheney was a f***up in the business world, too.

girl gone mad

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:00 PM
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Cheney was a f***up in the business world, too.

Edited on Tue Oct-05-04 07:06 PM by girl gone mad

Forget the media's kid-glove handling, Cheney made bad decisions when he was head of Halliburton, the worst of which was a merger with Dresser which cost the company nearly 5 Billion in asbestos claim payouts.

No need to keep pretending he possesses any amount of brilliant business acumen. His record of making stupid decisions goes way back.

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dogtag

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:05 PM
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1. What did Halliburton expect? It was Cheney's first job in

the private sector. They only hired him for the government contracts, but he decided to play CEO and really screwed up. Geez, what would his golden parachute have been if hadn't done Dresser?

Looking back on his congressional record is a real study in mediocrity too.

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:08 PM
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4. Hard to imagine a more conservative person in congress

Voting against the release of Nelson Mandela, and against abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and the like.

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dogtag

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:09 PM
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5. Oooops, I meant to wrtie mendacity. (n/t)

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Roachman

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:06 PM
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2. I think Cheney's decisions were great

for Cheney

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Old and In the Way

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:08 PM
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3. I think he probably thought he could get a favorable court to review

and side with Halliburton/Monsanto? Maybe he figured that they could get a legal opinion that would reduce the payouts? If so, pretty reckless.

But I'd like to see Edwards focus on his war profitering, selling Hussein $24MM in oil equipment and services in 1998.....circumventing the US embargo by selling through his European subsidiaries. He's a lying, hypocritical traitor who has made a career and grown quite wealthy with the lifelong arming, trading, and bombing of Iraq.

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girl gone mad

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:11 PM
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6. A reckless gamble..

behavior he repeated when he decided to rush into war with Iraq.

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Old and In the Way

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:37 PM
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9. Rush to war?

He started planning it as soon as he moved into his office. They purposely took the focus off AQ terror and started the business planning process to acquire the mineral rights for Iraqi oil and water in a hostile takeover bid. I have no doubts the core players in the secret energy meetings divvied up the field assets/rebuild contracts as part of the 21st centurary Republican business model:

Start Wars to benefit the MIC
Control the contracts for rebuilding
Repeat as often as you can get away with it.

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snippy

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:16 PM
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7. Very true. It is his criminal heart and deceitful soul. n/t

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goodboy

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Tue Oct-05-04 07:34 PM
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8. He's a flunkie in every other area of his life also....(nt)

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