How many people realize that Bill Clinton gave Haliburton the account for rebuilding Iraq?

Question

He did so when he bombed Iraq in 96.

Thats right,it was a no bid contract.No bid contract means that no one else could put a bid in for the job..,so they were APPOINTED by Bill Clinton.

Answer 1

THANK YOU!!!...they act like Dick Cheney muscled his company into Iraq or something, the crazy leftists love conspiracy theories though....so this one will never go away
i change my answer...i like norm's.....trying to change liberal minds with fact is impossible

Answer 2

There were allegations and investigations of questionable billing practices going back as far as 1997. There might not have been any reason to question a limited, no bid contract in 1996. However by the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003 there was more than enough reason to closely scrutinize Halliburton.

Answer 3

So Haliburton has had since 1996 to rebuild Iraq? Cheney ran the company 1995 to 2000, we should ask him why he didn't fulfill the contract.

Incorrect use of English and history. "Clinton gave THE contract" should be "The Republican controlled Congress gave A contract". Presidents dont award contracts.

The Really Big Contract for Iraq was awarded by the Republican congress under the republican president GW Bush. It was a no-compete bid. They didn't fulfill that one either.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

How many people realize that Bill Clinton was actually the Roman Solider who pierced the side of Christ and thus killed him.




WAIT WAIT WAIT.....are you lying? Because if I'm not mistaken, NOBODY was rebuilding Iraq at that time, as a matter of fact....DIDN'T ALL FOREIGN PERSONS GET THROWN OUT ALONG WITH U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTORS?

Very good attempt at a "BIG LIE".

Answer 6

Hold on mom, telling the truth is not allowed by the Liberal left. They cannot handle the truth and will start fiinger pointing, name calling, character assasination, filing false legal charges and a whole slew of idiotic maneuvers. Some replyees need to do some research, if capable. Clinton in fact sold Nuke technology to North Korea, I do believe that democraps not republicans were in power at the time.....

Answer 7

The contract was for "rebuilding Iraq?" Highly doubtful. One more thing - was it a no-bid contract? Again highly doubtful. But I'm sure you're just parroting Fox News, so you and the rest of the mindless Republicans can't possibly be to blame. Have a good day in your world.

Answer 8

Bill Clinton also fired ALL federal prosecutors.

The media is currently slamming Bush for trying to replace a handful.

Liberalism is hypocrisy incarnate.

-Aztec276

Answer 9

Geez, Bush really has done nothing while in office, has he.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Anut3aqXbsaDm4ekO6NcifHsy6IX?qid=20070313065341AAgZ0kQ

Answer 10

Well, at least he didn't sell weapons to Iran, sell weapons of mass destruction to Iraq, and fund Bin Laden, as, Republican administrations have done, in, the past. Republicans, small minds doing really big things.