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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:41 PM
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HALLIBURTON WINS CONTRACT TO RECONSTRUCT CHENEY’S REPUTATION
HALLIBURTON WINS CONTRACT TO RECONSTRUCT CHENEY’S REPUTATION

At $42 Billion, Largest Contract of its Kind, Company Says The Halliburton Company announced today that it had won a $42 billion no-bid contract from the U.S. government to reconstruct the reputation of Vice President Dick Cheney.

While Halliburton has been known for massive reconstruction projects in such war-torn nations as Iraq, the $42 billion contract represents the first time that the company has been employed to put its reconstruction expertise to work on one embattled human being.

At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan defended the $42 billion price tag for the reconstruction effort, telling reporters, “Given how much work Dick Cheney’s reputation is going to take to rebuild, at the end of the day that $42 billion contract is going to look like a bargain.”

Mr. McClellan likened the state of Mr. Cheney’s reputation to conditions on the ground in Iraq, “only worse.”

But even as Halliburton began gearing up for the daunting task of reconstructing the vice president’s reputation, an unlikely critic of the plan, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill), questioned the wisdom of even attempting to rebuild Dick Cheney.

Rep. Hastert said that based on what he had seen of Dick Cheney’s reputation in recent days, it reminded him of the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, making him wonder whether the vice president could be rebuilt at all.

“It looks like a lot of Dick Cheney could be bulldozed,” Rep. Hastert said.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/default.asp

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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:42 PM
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1. !
:spray:
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:43 PM
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2. Ha!
LOL!
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Mitt Chovick Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:45 PM
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3. LMAO!!!
:rofl:
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:48 PM
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4. Boy, that will more difficult than Iraq! n/t
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:52 PM
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5. I would expect that...
... the cost overruns on this will be, ahem, significant. :P
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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:52 PM
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6. great title!!
Just used it in a Yahoo Politics chat room.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 08:59 PM
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7. Mrs Armstrong = Halliburton board member who helped hire Cheney
So, yeah, basically, Halliburtong reconstructing Dick. And getting well paid for it.
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 09:00 PM
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8. They made a mistake when they built the Cheney below sea
level.

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pat_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 09:15 PM
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9. Get ready for VP Jeb (“It looks like a lot of Dick Cheney could be bulldoz

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=447694&mesg_id=447694

Cheney mentions an "Executive Order" when responding to the only substantive issue he allowed Boot-Licker Britt to pose to him -- about Scooter and Treasonous National Security violations of Plamegate.

The EO expansion was issued in March of 2003. (Interesting timing, no?)

That makes the bushkid himself a willful, active, co-conspirator in the effort to out/ruin/kill? Valerie Plame in retaliation for Joe Wilson's whistleblowing on their Terorize the Nation into War caper.

The chatterers are "baffled" by how badly Cheney handled this incident. But what if we give him some credit for the 40+ years of PR saavy he is also reported to have? The "handling" may have been deliberate.

Cheney may be playing hardball against some effort to dump him, hoping to stave off impeachment**.

Who knows, may Ole Harry had volunteered to give Dick the "bad news."

In any case, Uncle Dick has just dropped Plamegate turd, steaming and stinking, on the carpet of the Oval Office.
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