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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject9/28/2003 3:53:45 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Vice President Halliburton

"The practice of delegating a vast array of [Pentagon] 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."

He's in government, and he hires Halliburton to study whether to feed more money to Halliburton. Then, as the Pentagon money rolls into Halliburton, Cheney leaves government to take over as top dog at Halliburton. A few years later, Cheney returns to government -- with a monster severance check from Halliburton -- and lo and behold! his government starts feeding monster contracts to Halliburton.
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