The details don't look as bad as the person in the email described.
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/03/25/halliburton/index.html
Though, I do agree with the general sentiment that it looks awful.
I've heard some rumors now that Cheney won't be on the 2004 ticket, officially for "health reasons", but in reality because he signed "incriminating" deals with some oil companies.
Hopefully, of course, it won't matter who's on the ticket because someone else will win, but that might just be wishful thinking.
As for the assertion that this war is about "oil", I think that's incredibly simplistic and wrong. There are plenty of valid arguments that could be made concerning the bad reasons we're now involved in a war, but oil is way down on the list, and all the people trotting it out again and again don't seem to have any clue what they're talking about.
Mike
At 12:32 AM 3/26/2003 -0800, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:
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From: "DM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Mar 25, 2003 11:29:43 PM US/Pacific To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: te from dm
I've heard a report that the Bush team have contracted their first American company to rebuild the oil well in Iraq. The report is that the huge contract went to Halliburton.
You remember - Dick Cheney's Halliburton company?
Could this be true? Isn't this just a bit obvious - if true?
Bush should have called his was Operation Iraqi Liberation. That's right O.I.L. All this about the time America was beginning to trust this appointed prez.
If true then all the Liberal Democrats Americans must be laughing their butts off. Of course that will permit greater life longevity than the lying their pants off Republicans and right wing extremists. Tony Blair has a red face. But Chr�tien is smiling. Now what must those ridiculous Alliance boys be thinking?
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