Halliburton in Iraq

So after my delivery of the corporation Halliburton's journey through Nigeria, the real story that caught the public's eye was their involvment in Iraq. Most everything I have read has put the corporation above board, but REAL shady...to recap, former VP Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton from 1995- 2000, just prior to him taking office in the Bush regime...his successor was convicted of improprieties and was jailed for the company's problems in Nigeria...fast forward now to 9/11/2001...as the US was attacked by Bin Laden and his followers, the US went after him for retaliation...problem is that it is a band of terrorists and not a country...so the Bush regime picks out Iraq as the benefactor of our anger..."they have weapons of mass destruction" and in we went...

Here is where it gets interesting...shortly after the military gets in Iraq there is a need for set-up and upkeep of military bases there...a company is needed to do such a thing...there are a number of corporations that do such a thing...the contract is given to none other than Halliburton!!! Amongst a number of things this corp does is manage the bases and all...they bring in subsidiary companies from 3rd world countries to clean latrines, amongst all else that is needed...Cheney sells off 1/2 his stock in Halliburton to avoid the appearance that he had any involvement in his former corp had any insider help in getting the contract...OMG

The Padres swept the Reds as Jake Peavy threw over 120 pitches and Kooz had 3 hits in the final victory...

The Lakers won and move on...the Celts got upset by the Magic...

Off to the links...