NPR reported today that Halliburton is leaving us (ahem... the U.S.) for Dubai, a locale described as Las Vegas on steroids. I could have seen this coming... when I read about Dubai in January's National Geographic. Dubai is nice enough to offer liberal and low-taxes... Halliburton won't be the last to take advantage. I wonder what Halliburton's strategic plan looks like? Probably something like this:2000 Get Cheney in the White House
2003 Get White House to bomb the shit out of Iraq, start war
2003 - present Reap billions of dollars in profits
Then what happens? Houston too humid? Nope... a hot seat of a different kind. Last month, federal investigators allege that Halliburton has overcharged or not documented 2.7 billion in expenditures. They aren't the only ones lining their pockets with this bloodbath. This has been going on for some time, but now that the war is less popular, they might actually go after them... or will they? Meh.
Well, someone in congress is paying attention: Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont. He's quoted as saying "This is an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years," The Senator is working on the The War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007. Good luck, man. If not that, what is war good for?
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the film i was talking about this morning is called Iraq For Sale.
i think lisa has the copy we showed if you wanna see it.
thanks climb a tree! Click here to read more about 'Iraq for Sale'.
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