Palin to quit
#61
07-10-2009, 01:38 AM
This is common knowledge and has been for at least 3 years that the war cost is over 3 trillion and a high percentage of that was stolen by Cheney !!
#62
07-10-2009, 01:42 AM
LOL, Google is not a reputable source of information.
congressional investigation halliburton - Google Search I guess Congressional investigations of Cheney are just all political too then ? :rofl: It is so obvious it is hard for you Republicans to accept. http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781568583921?&PID=32513 Quote: Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism. Pratap Chatterjee—one of the world’s leading authorities on corporate crime, fraud, and corruption—shows how Halliburton won and then lost its contracts in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did for it, and who the company paid off in the U.S. Congress. He brings us inside the Pentagon meetings, where Cheney and Rumsfeld made the decision to send Halliburton to Iraq—as well as many other hot-spots, including Somalia, Yugoslavia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and, most recently, New Orleans. He travels to Dubai, where Halliburton has recently moved its headquarters, and exposes the company’s freewheeling ways: executives leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraud. Finally, Chatterjee reveals the human costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost entirely by low-paid unskilled Third World workers who work in incredibly dangerous conditions without any labor protection. Halliburton’s Army is a hair-raising exposé of one of the world’s most lethal corporations, essential reading for anyone concerned about the nexus of private companies, government, and war. Review: "Chatterjee (Iraq Inc.) delves into the nebulous world of the Houston-based Halliburton corporation, tracing the company to its roots, when a fortuitous meeting with a young Lyndon Baines Johnson propelled the Brown and Root Company (which later merged with Halliburton) into Washington power politics. The author details the military contracting that largely funded the company through WWII and into the present-day war in Iraq, intertwining the company's history with the biographies of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and other officials in the Bush administration. Chatterjee provides a laundry list of abuses for which the company has been investigated, including inflated billing of the Pentagon, providing unsafe living conditions for U.S. soldiers, labor exploitation and coverups to avoid congressional inquiry. He concludes with a look at the whistleblowers that brought these scandals into the public eye and the repercussions of the eventual congressional investigation. Chatterjee keeps the pace of the narrative at a quick clip and nimbly marshals his extensive evidence to reveal — without sanctimony or stridency — Halliburton's record of corruption, political manipulation and human rights abuses." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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#63
07-10-2009, 01:46 AM
No, a google search is not a source. And the Iraq war and Cheney are not the topic of this thread. Unless you'd like a vacation from the board, I would suggest you stop trying to derail every thread you post in by turning it into an anti-Bush and pro-union thread.
#64
07-10-2009, 01:51 AM
This thread is about a front person who was picked to fool Americans into voting back in the Nixon boys who have ruined the entire world economy, if it is off topic to you, I will quit posting here.
I really don't need to post on a board where posts about unions and governmental corruption is disallowed anyway.
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#65
07-10-2009, 01:53 AM
But I'm sure nobody will be lamenting your choice not to post.
#66
07-10-2009, 01:57 AM
So you don't really want the truth posted here in other words.
We can gloss over the last 8 years and why the nation is in the shape it it in and why trucking is in the shape it is in. I will take a break since that is the case. I do understand that the truth is stranger than fiction to folks who are in denial.
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07-10-2009, 06:19 AM
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Will you believe a Nobel laureate economist ( Who has been sharply critical of Obama) when he says that the war will cost 3 tril+?
The three trillion dollar war | Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes - Times Online If not, just who will you believe?
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07-10-2009, 07:50 AM
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Sorry, my bad. I promise I won't do it again.
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