The Govt Had Nothing to Do With Your Wealth, Eh, Cheney--You Freakin Liar?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56429-2003Aug27?language=printer

washingtonpost.com
Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought


By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2003; Page A01


Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.

The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.

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A related concern is the rising cost of hiring contract workers because of skyrocketing insurance premiums. Singer estimates that premiums have increased by 300 percent to 400 percent this year, costs that are passed on to the taxpayer under the cost-plus-award fee system that is the basis for most contracts.

The LOGCAP contract awarded to Brown and Root in 2001 was the third, and potentially most lucrative, super-contract awarded by the Army. Brown and Root won the first five-year contract in 1992, but lost the second to rival DynCorp in 1997 after the GAO criticized the Army for not adequately controlling contracting costs in Bosnia.

If Cheney can identify one cent that he earned that had nothing to do with the US government...I want him to do so.

His pants must constantly need the fire put out.

Its the only thing that keeps his heart going.

... was CEO of a company for the several years before assuming office, still collected a huge annual paycheck in dividends (or whatever) from that company while in office, and they were then awarded lucrative military contracts for a war that was pushed perhaps more heavily by himself than anyone else, in the face of much domestic and world opposition, using dubious and sometimes outright false evidence as justification... Al Gore would be crucified in the press.

No, make that impeached.

No, make that impeached and arrested.

No, make that impeached, arrested, tried and executed.

No, no... impeached, arrested, tried, executed, and drawn and quartered on the Washington Mall for all to see.

But that would be Al Gore. The people in office now, you see, have brought honesty and integrity back to the White House!

"The practice of delegating a vast array of logistics operations to a single contractor dates to the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and a study commissioned by Cheney, then defense secretary, on military outsourcing. The Pentagon chose Brown and Root to carry out the study and subsequently selected the company to implement its own plan. Cheney served as chief executive of Brown and Root's parent company, Halliburton, from 1995 to 2000, when he resigned to run for the vice presidency."

The government had nothing to do with his wealth, huh? My GOD, just how tight does the connection ahve to be? To quote George W. (although he was talking about alleged Iraqi nikes) "I don't know what more evidence we need!"

cost-plus-award fee system that is the basis for most contracts

And private contractors are supposed to save the government money???
:wtf:

Im sure the selection of Haliburton (especially in the no bid instances) has nothing to do with the half a million he gets from them every year.

Good to see he is at least earning his money.