Halliburton won a no-bid contract to reap in a bunch of dough in Iraq.... coincidence that the Vice President will profit from this? I think not!
2006-10-13 08:46:57 · 11 answers · asked by AntiDisEstablishmentTarianism 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Am I upset that it was a no-bid deal....yep...Everyone should have gotten the chance...however, if you owned a company like that and had the chance to make billions, would you say...well I think I will risk losing the billions and let others have a chance...hell no...you would jump all over that....everyone would....One other thing that would happen, if it was the Demecrats in power, then someone who they favor would have got that contract....that is politics....
2006-10-13 08:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by yetti 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what I understand there are 3 or 4 companies over there that were awarded in no bid contracts. We have had war profiteering in the world since there have been wars. If you took even a little bit of notice of their stock you would see that it has leveled and even declined. He has only 400,000 shares (which is not much for the position he held) and unless he exercises those options there is no money for him. So head over to Walmart and buy your crap that was made in China and keep supporting your communist governments. I have no problem with the set up with Cheney and Halliburton.
2006-10-13 08:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
War profiteering is a good thing for my stock portfolio...LOL!
Let me guess, your got your info from MORONS.org, right?
Meanwhile in the REAL world we have this:
The first LOGCAP was awarded in 1992, as the first Bush administration (including then-Secretary of Defense Cheney) was leaving office. Four companies competed, and the winner was Brown & Root, as it was known at the time (Halliburton changed the name to Kellogg Brown & Root after an acquisition in 1998). The multi-year contract was in effect during much of the Clinton administration. During those years, Brown & Root did extensive work for the Army under the LOGCAP contract in Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia; contract workers built base camps and provided troops with electrical power, food, and other necessities.
In 1997, when LOGCAP was again put up for bid, Halliburton/Brown & Root lost the competition to another contractor, Dyncorp. But the Clinton Defense Department, rather than switch from Halliburton to Dyncorp, elected to award a separate, sole-source contract to Halliburton/Brown & Root to continue its work in the Balkans. According to a later GAO study, the Army made the choice because 1) Brown & Root had already acquired extensive knowledge of how to work in the area; 2) the company "had demonstrated the ability to support the operation"; and 3) changing contractors would have been costly. The Army's sole-source Bosnia contract with Brown & Root lasted until 1999. At that time, the Clinton Defense Department conducted full-scale competitive bidding for a new contract. The winner was . . . Halliburton/Brown & Root. The company continued its work in Bosnia uninterrupted.
That work received favorable notices throughout the Clinton administration. For example, Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review mentioned Halliburton's performance in its Report on Reinventing the Department of Defense, issued in September 1996. In a section titled "Outsourcing of Logistics Allows Combat Troops to Stick to Basics," Gore's reinventing-government team favorably mentioned LOGCAP, the cost-plus-award system, and Brown & Root, which the report said provided "basic life support services — food, water, sanitation, shelter, and laundry; and the full realm of logistics services — transportation, electrical, hazardous materials collection and disposal, fuel delivery, airfield and seaport operations, and road maintenance."
(http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york070903.asp)
2006-10-13 09:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by juandos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is EVEN MORE evil than the Dumbya Big Lie Iraqi Crusade is in itself. It is NEVER justified and ALWAYS a MAJOR crime even IF the "war" itself could meet the Cindy definition of a "noble cause". Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!
2006-10-13 08:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have another war and I'll profit from it, no problem. Buy Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grumman. Easy pickings, way to go Dick, capitalism, the American way !
2006-10-13 09:00:21 · answer #5 · answered by jerry4_fun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This war as it looks now will destroy the careers of those who profited from this.Time will tell.
2006-10-13 09:08:29 · answer #6 · answered by Dr.O 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And this is a problem.
Anyone in this God forsaken Country would take an open-ended contract if it was handed to them. That's business.
2006-10-13 08:51:18 · answer #7 · answered by Skull&Bones 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
War Profiteers!
Scum!
Pure Scum!
Dick Cheney!
Scum!
Pure Scum!
BTW: George H.(The Wimp)W. Bush is proffiting big time with his pension from Halliburton.
Scum!
Pure Scum!
2006-10-13 08:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a bad deal, 2750 Ameicans and 655,000 Iraqi have died so Cheney, Bush and friends can smoke $100 cigars. It just isn't right.
2006-10-13 08:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Where there is war, somebody is profitting. Money walks and talks big, especially in America!
2006-10-13 08:49:45 · answer #10 · answered by bzzybutterfly 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋