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  • From: matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers:http"@happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/ <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] Halliburton: Where did that $1.8 Billion go?
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:25:53 -0400

The Right wants to waste ludicrous amounts of time and energy accusing George Soros of making his money dealing drugs or running web sites out of the Caymans. Unfortunately for tax payers, little to no attention is ever paid to the corporate hand outs and no-bid contracts given to their side. Sorry America - you've been scammed. (No sarcasm intended.)

dave m.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1319367,00.html

(same thing on salon):

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/06/halliburton/index_np.html

"In a meeting with investors in Houston toward the end of September, Halliburton's chief executive, David Lesar, said the company had become the target of a "vicious campaign" of political attacks ahead of the presidential election. The company's workers, he added, "don't deserve to have their jobs threatened for political gain". Another reason for wanting to quit Iraq is that 45 of the company's workers have died there.

As the presidential election has heated up, so has the temperature surrounding Halliburton. The company has become a useful piece of shorthand for the newly aggressive democratic nominee, John Kerry.

He told an audience in Albuquerque on a campaign trip last month: "Dick Cheney's old company, Halliburton, has profited from the mess in Iraq at the expense of American troops and taxpayers. While Halliburton has been engaging in massive overcharging and wasteful practices under this no-bid contract, Dick Cheney has continued to receive compensation from his former company."





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