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Iraq Rebuilding Contracts Awarded (to Haliburton - Cheney's former employer) (pg. 4)
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| Sir. Lunchalot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
Umm perhaps the gain the right from the fact that they are paying 100% for the contracts to be completed? NOOOO that couldn't be it nevermind. |
Yes, but they are paying it with money they have seized from Iraqi bank accounts. ;) |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
***UPDATE***
Details Given on Contract Halliburton Was Awarded
By ELIZABETH BECKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/b...&partner=GOOGLE
ASHINGTON, April 10 — The Pentagon contract given without competition to a Halliburton subsidiary to fight oil well fires in Iraq is worth as much as $7 billion over two years, according to a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers that was released today.
The contract also allows Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary, to earn as much as 7 percent profit. That could amount to $490 million.
The corps released these new details in a letter to Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California and one of the two senior lawmakers who asked the General Accounting Office to investigate how the Bush administration is awarding contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq.
The reconstruction effort could cost up to $100 billion and become one of the most lucrative building programs in decades.
The contract to Kellogg Brown & Root was cited in the lawmakers' request to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of Congress. Mr. Waxman and Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, asked that special attention be paid to "allegations that Halliburton has received special treatment from the administration."
Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995 until 2000. When he left the company to run for vice president, Mr. Cheney received over $30 million in compensation, Mr. Waxman said.
...Click Link for Full Article |
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| LiquidX |
| mmmmm just as thought I guess.:D |
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| brainfried |
| people need to understand what drives american politicians and the american government in general.......... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ but what do you expect when it costs millions of dollars to be elected to a high public office in the states? american democracy=plutocracy |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
First, Haliburton's subsidiary received the government contract with virtually no competition and now their role has been expanded (i.e. more $$$$$ for Haliburton) to include "operating facilities and distributing products." Haliburton states that this provision for expansion was always in the original contract, only it was in the fine print and ulitimately never reported. Makes me think of what else ends up in the fine print? So what does this mean? Well, it's looking more and more like the oil "that belongs to the Iraqi people" is going into the hands of big corporations; and on top of that, a corporation that has close ties to vice president Cheney. :rolleyes:
***UPDATE***
Halliburton Iraq contract expands
Wednesday, May 7, 2003 Posted: 0640 GMT ( 2:40 PM HKT)
excerpts:
In a letter to Waxman dated May 2, Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers, the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, gave further details about what the contract entails: that the company would put out oil well fires and assess the facilities; clean up oil spills or other environmental dangers at the sites; repair or reconstruct damaged infrastructure; operate facilities and distribute products.
Flowers did not elaborate on what he meant by "operation of facilities and distribution of products." The White House has long said the oil of Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINES...top.haliburton/ |
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| Yoepus |
The way you and the article phrase this is misleading. As it has been mentioned (I think in this thread) Cheney does not work anymore or gets "paid" by Haliburton!!! If he does this would be a very controversial issues, and illegal none the less violating rules against conflict of interests!
Cheney had to give up all stocks and paid positions to take up office. What Haliburton is paying him is his simply his retirement! Whatever he does has no effect on this money payment and therefore has no violation of conflict of interests.
It is like saying I quit this job which continues to pay me benifits and pension and then telling me I am directly linked with them. No I am not, I might have been... but now I'm out of it. Same with Cheney. I'm sure you realize this, all you are trying to do is dig up some dirt where none is to be found. |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
The way you and the article phrase this is misleading. As it has been mentioned (I think in this thread) Cheney does not work anymore or gets "paid" by Haliburton!!! If he does this would be a very controversial issues, and illegal none the less violating rules against conflict of interests!
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agreed. although close ties still exist between the two. |
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| LiquidX |
| - I know for sure that by heaving this contract be done on close doors and heaving Cheney in relation with Halliburton, has lots to say, really, why close doors and why all the secret? gives everyone the question mark.. but why be surprised, it was known that the administration were running the OIL from the Oval Office.:p |
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| MisterOpus1 |
This whole stink arises from questions on our true intentions of going to war in Iraq. The line Bush Co. first used was they had WMD and pose an immediate threat to the U.S. Well, they scrapped that one early on, and replaced it with freeing the Iraqi people from a mean dictator - one who some of our own companies and their respective subsidiaries have done business with very recently (Halliburton). And one dictator who with one particular company, Bechtel, really wanted to do business with back in the '80s to set up an oil pipeline through Iraq. And Rumsfield along with others in Bush Co. had some nice ties to that company (Bechtel) as well. Nevermind the fact that we were well aware of Hussein gassing his own people, we wanted his business! But he turned them down, and they weren't exactly happy with him on his lack of business dealings with U.S. companies. I'm getting off course here. But I've got references if you want me to post them on this.
So anyway, Bush Co. went about it as freeing the Iraqi people. Nevermind how many other ruthless dictators are out there, some from which we are doing business with. But this one with Iraq was oh so bad, I guess. So now we're not here for WMD, even though we're still searching for them after it's all said and done. Of course, we refuse to let U.N. inspectors have a peak around (gee, I wonder why?). Still nothing found, and now Bush Co. freely admits that it's likely we may never find them! So we went to war for what? We went to the U.N. with evidence (laughable, tampered, dated, misconstrued evidence at that) of WMD in Iraq, and used that as our sole reason for invasion. Now we're working on freeing the people! I'm sure they're so glad to be free now - it certainly looks like it, considering they're all starving with no economy whatsoever. Kinda like Afghanistan, only without the Warlords and opium/heroin controlling the economy.
So despite all this, people are beginning to wonder WTF we were there in the first place. What was our intentions? Well many have been accusing Bush Co. on his intentions being oil, and that he refuses to admit it. Of course he would refuse to admit that - you realize how incredibly greedy and malicious this would look if Bush Co. admitted invading a hapless country with a mean dictator who has a laughable army and puny weapons, all for oil?!? Yeah, right. You have to wonder why when we took over Bagdhad, the first place we secured was the Ministry of Oil. It's highly probable that they were securing those documents that linked business deals of Halliburton to Iraq, especially those documents that were dated around the time when Cheney was still on their payroll. Nevermind all the looting in the other buildings, including Iraq's museums and so forth. So people are putting some pieces together, and have concluded that Bush Co. has some serious associations with companies that have contracts to rebuild and restructure Iraq. This good 'ol boy network is becoming exposed for what they're true intentions were in the first place, and it's only going to get worse for them in the long run. It is well-known that Bush has failed in every business he has been in the past. His miserable legacy as President will top them all. |
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| zzleeper |
I thought THIS might interest you...
Yahoo! News: "Halliburton admits to multi-million dollar bribe"
Oil services giant Halliburton, already under fire over accusations that its White house ties helped win a major Iraqi oil contract, has admitted that a subsidiary paid a multi-million dollar bribe to a Nigerian tax official. Halliburton, once run by Vice President Richard Cheney, revealed the illicit payments, worth 2.4 million dollars, in a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). "The payments were made to obtain favorable tax treatment and clearly violated our code of business conduct and our internal control procedures," Halliburton said. ... |
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