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He was no more corrupt than Cheney and his awarding contract after contract to HIS own business...Haliburton

That must make it ok?????? They are all crooks.

Agreed! But Bill will never agree that Cheney was in the wrong.

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Agreed! But Bill will never agree that Cheney was in the wrong.

History will reveal whether Cheney was wrong. We will never find out under this admin. They will not tell truth, would rather conduct witch hunts and apologize.

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What have you done for your country old man to bash a decorated veteran?

Bob,
His service to the country in the military has never been questioned. His corruption in Congress is/and has been, very well documented. the fact that he did that and tried to stand on his military service while raping the country shows what washington can do to a person. You can not deny his corruption, Announcer has even made a comment to that. And YES, i have done enough to make that comment.

Announcer,
Who else bid the contract for Iraq?

My point exactly....with Cheney riding point on the contract bids...What's the use in bidding? As common knowledge tells us...contractors knew the bidding was fixed just as everyone else did....so they didn't get involved. Saw an interview on TV early on with a very big named builder that said he would not put his bid in for fear of being linked to Cheney and Haliburton later on......he turned out to be a SMART GUY!

Cheney Coordinated Halliburton Iraq Contract: Report

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon e-mail said Vice President **** Cheney coordinated a huge Halliburton government contract for Iraq, despite Cheney's denial of interest in the company he ran until 2000.


US Vice President **** Cheney. A Pentagon e-mail said Cheney coordinated a huge Halliburton government contract for Iraq, despite Cheney's denial of interest in the company he ran until 2000. (AFP/Robert Sullivan)
The March 5, 2003 e-mail, from an Army Corps of Engineers official, said that top Pentagon official Douglas Feith got the job of shepherding the contract, according to the newsweekly Time that hits newsstands Monday.

Feith had approved the multi-billion-dollar deal "contingent on informing WH (the White House) tomorrow. We anticipate no issues since action has been coordinated w(ith) VP's (vice president's) office," said the e-mail obtained by Time.

The newsweekly said it was three days later that Halliburton won the contract, although no other bids had been submitted.

"As vice president, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the federal government," Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press" in September, Time said.

Cheney had been Halliburton's CEO until 2000, when he accepted the vice presidential spot.

Cheney's spokesman Kevin Kellems told the magazine that since 2000, the vice president "has played no role whatsoever in government-contract decisions involving Halliburton."

The e-mail was sent "in anticipation of controversy over the award of a sole-source contract to Halliburton, we wanted to give the vice president's staff a heads-up," a Pentagon spokesman said.

Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith was handed the job of coordinating the contract by his boss, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Time said.

Feith, Wolfowitz and Cheney, along with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, form the core of Bush administration "hawks" who pushed for the war in Iraq.

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The newsweekly said it was three days later that Halliburton won the contract, although no other bids had been submitted.

The bidding was fixed but only ONE bid was submitted, how do you do that, splain that to me, please........

Despite all the crocodile tears shed by the duped boobs the FACT is Halliburton was the sole company capable of carrying out the contract!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hallibuton had numerous government contracts during the rapist's administration as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe...at least he didn't negotiate them personally ...like DYCK!

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The newsweekly said it was three days later that Halliburton won the contract, although no other bids had been submitted.

HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!!

How about the ones that put in the bids for the legal defense in Afganistan to the tune of 25 million. Yep, imagine that, they were contributors to the Obamer campaign. Oh, and there were other attorneys that were wanting to do it Pro-Bono as well as some would do it for free. Imagine that.

Here is what happens with cheney at the helm and Halliburton and their NO bid contracts.....

http://democrats.senate.gov/dp...w2.cfm?doc_name=inv2

Stick to the topic, what the Hell does that have to do with it?????????????????????????
Another socialist donkey Senator, Bayh D-IN, has deserted the good ship "sinkingobama" after seeing the handwriting on the wall in GREAT big letters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is what happens with cheney at the helm and Halliburton and their NO bid contracts.....

http://democrats.senate.gov/dp...w2.cfm?doc_name=inv2

It wasn't a NO Bid contract. No one else wanted it or could do it. Do you not understand the difference?

Also, great non-baised media outlet Bob.

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Here is what happens with cheney at the helm and Halliburton and their NO bid contracts.....

http://democrats.senate.gov/dp...w2.cfm?doc_name=inv2

It wasn't a NO Bid contract. No one else wanted it or could do it. Do you not understand the difference?

Also, great non-baised media outlet Bob.

4/27/2003: (CBS) Halliburton’s government relations director says his company’s former CEO, now the vice president of the United States, has nothing to do with the company getting billions of dollars in federal contracts, including a recent no-bid job, worth up to $7 billion, to put out oil well fires in Iraq.
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October 29, 2004

WASHINGTON – The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts to Halliburton, seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and collecting documents from several government offices.

The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton overcharged taxpayers more than $60 million for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President **** Cheney's former company.

FBI agents this week sought permission to interview Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer who went public last weekend with allegations that her agency unfairly awarded KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Asked about the documents, Greenhouse's lawyers said yesterday that their client will cooperate but that she wants whistle-blower protection from Pentagon retaliation.

"I think it (the FBI interview request) underscores the seriousness of the misconduct, and it also demonstrates how courageous Ms. Greenhouse was for stepping forward," said Stephen Kohn, one of her attorneys.

"The initiation of an FBI investigation into criminal misconduct will help restore public confidence," Kohn said. "The Army must aggressively protect Ms. Greenhouse from the retaliation she will encounter as a result of blowing the whistle on this misconduct."

FBI agents also recently began collecting documents from Army offices in Texas and elsewhere to examine how and why Halliburton, a Houston-based oil services conglomerate, got the no-bid work.
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The Basics of Halliburton's Military Contracts


No-bid contracts

When a government announces a new work project to be completed by one company, it generally requires a number of different companies to submit competing proposals (or bids). The company submitting the most efficient and lowest-cost bid usually wins the contract. But under a "no-bid" contract, there is no bidding. Instead, the government awards the contract to one preferred company without determining if other companies can complete the work for a lower cost to the government.

The Army awarded Halliburton a no-bid contract in March 2003 to rebuild Iraq's oil industry infrastructure. The no-bid contract created enough outrage in Congress that the Pentagon later cancelled it and opened-up the bidding process to companies other than Halliburton.

Most of Halliburton's government contracts were awarded through competitive bidding, but the no-bid Iraqi contract, and the secret way in which it was awarded to Halliburton, touched-off a firestorm of public suspicion that **** Cheney and Halliburton are working together to increase the revenues of Halliburton. After the no-bid contract was cancelled, the company has been exposed for the repeated fraud and abuse in its government contracts. Allegations of corruption continue today.
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I'm done with you boz..........

Criticism over Halliburton's lucrative Iraq contracts has some historians drawing parallels to a similar controversy involving the company during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration.

Halliburton faced almost identical charges over its work for the U.S. government in Vietnam -- allegations of overcharging, sweetheart contracts from the White House and war profiteering. Back then, the company's close ties to President Johnson became a liability.

The story of Halliburton's ties to the White House dates back to the 1940s, when a Texas firm called Brown & Root constructed a massive dam project near Austin. The company's founders, Herman and George Brown, won the contract to build Mansfield Dam thanks to the efforts of Johnson, who was then a Texas congressman.

After Johnson took over the Oval Office, Brown & Root won contracts for huge construction projects for the federal government.

More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam.

Brown & Root also became a target for anti-war protesters: they called the firm the embodiment of the "military-industrial complex" and denounced it for building detention cells to hold Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam.

Today, Brown & Root is called Kellogg, Brown & Root -- a Halliburton subsidiary better known as KBR.

Trans Lady, how dare you to imply that LBJ was crooked in any way!/sarcasm off

In the early 70's just by chance myself and a friend was lucky enough to spend the afternoon and evening with Bill Stone, Billie Saul Estes' right hand man. I wish I could have taped it. Ten hours went by in ten minutes. LBJ was as crooked as they come and capable of anything. He talked about carrying suitcases of cash and delivering them to well known politicians and others whose names at the time meant nothing to me. I sure don't miss LBJ.

Here are a few of the other contractors working in Iraq. I notice that there is more than one. Can you explain why that is, also, since not all are subcontracters that would also lead me to believe that it wasn't just Haliburton that got the call.

I do, however, agree that there is verbage to state that the initial contract is/was no-bid. On that segment I was incorrect. Based on the information I have researched they are not the only ones being paid by the US to be there, that would lead you to believe that there is more than one, meaning no single no-bid, since others would have had to be awarded the contracts to be working there.

In January 2004, the Army buckled under public pressure and claimed that it cancelled its no-bid RIO contract with KBR. It later opened RIO for competitive bidding. This time, the Army announced that KBR won the contract to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure in the southern part of the country, rather than the entire country as the original contract provided. The northern Iraq contract, worth up to $800 million, was given to a joint venture of California-based Parsons Corp. and the Australian firm Worley Group Ltd.

Companies working in Iraq

The leftists are over joyed that a foreign company gets work rather than KBR???????

Bob, I guess Cheney was responsible for this also?

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...end/?test=latestnews