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Originally posted by Spacey Orange Here are some differences. No bid contract - conflict of interest for bush and cheney b/c cheney receives money from halliburton.

Cheney divested himself of all Halliburton stock, and he gets "deferred compensation," which is completely independent of how well the company does.

FYI, other CEO's do it all the time, so they can take another job and not have a conflict of interest. You can go ahead and say that Cheney wants to make his friends rich from Iraq contracts, but Cheney himself doesn't get a single dime from Halliburton's current business.

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Originally posted by imokruok Cheney divested himself of all Halliburton stock, and he gets "deferred compensation," which is completely independent of how well the company does. FYI, other CEO's do it all the time, so they can take another job and not have a conflict of interest. You can go ahead and say that Cheney wants to make his friends rich from Iraq contracts, but Cheney himself doesn't get a single dime from Halliburton's current business.

Indeed, Imokurok is correct. Halliburton could very well go bankrupt tomorrow or somehow win a multi-trillion dollar lottery and it wouldn't mean squat for Cheney's deferred compensation.

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Originally posted by Shakka Indeed, Imokurok is correct. Halliburton could very well go bankrupt tomorrow or somehow win a multi-trillion dollar lottery and it wouldn't mean squat for Cheney's deferred compensation.

Try telling that to skerry's followers

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Originally posted by speedracer_mec Try telling that to skerry's followers

I'm tired of trying. They seem to lack a basic understanding of business.

Yawn, straight from the anals of the Kerry campaign...


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yup.

also note that Halliburton was the only company who could fix oil pipelines on that big of a scale. hence, of course there was no-bid

since as shakka said, they have no idea of business, they wont even take the time to look at their annual report to stockholders to see how their LOGCAP III and middle eastern divisions are doing.

the government pays halliburton in an "basis" of 2-3% which is jack compared to the normal companies who make 13-15% off their oil

This has already been posted and debunked. I'll post a link when the search function comes back up.

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Originally posted by Spacey Orange are you saying then that if the us went to war, halliburton was gauranteed work b/c no one else could do it? if this is what you suggest, then it would be in halliburton's interest to influence the administration to go to war. sounds like a good deal eh?

Yes. Halliburton created a war so that they could make paper thin margins. I'll get Mulder and Scully on the horn.

Whoever sent you that list is a plain liar and I won't even waste my time because after just the first few lines I knew it was written by an Islamic extremist spreading disinformation. Yes, they have access to the internet too! don't forget it.

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Originally posted by tecnolover Whoever sent you that list is a plain liar and I won't even waste my time because after just the first few lines I knew it was written by an Islamic extremist spreading disinformation. Yes, they have access to the internet too! don't forget it.

Wouldn't an Islamic extremist want Kerry in office due to his more lax anti-terrorism beliefs?

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Originally posted by Seventil Wouldn't an Islamic extremist want Kerry in office due to his more lax anti-terrorism beliefs?

or they'd like Bush because his anti-terrorist policies has increased their recruiment base and at the same time pushed away many of US allies.

You can't ignore the fact that there is a lot more people around the world today who are upset with the US then there were before Bush became president. And that's despite 9/11. Things like that plays into the hands of various anti-US terrorists.

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