You still don't get it. If a pipeline is being built, so what? Cheney sold his stock in Halliburton when he was elected, and he gets a retirement check from them based on a deferred compensation deal that was struck long ago.
Borrowed from another site:
"The "no-bid contract" canard has been thoroughly debunked. Halliburton's contract, which is more of a blanket purchase agreement, has been in place since before September 11th, when it was awarded in a full and fair bid process. And, at the time, Halliburton was bidding to keep the contract they already held, awarded by the Clinton administration. Halliburton is earning its money according to the terms under which they submitted their bid. If you don't like that, fair enough, but the attempt to link their "no-bid" work in Iraq with Cheney's position is a ridiculous piece of innuendo combined with willful and selective ignorance of government contracting."
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"... countered the "no-bid contract" argument far better than I could have. However, Cheney sold his stock when he resigned in 2000 which was the right thing to do. I don't think there is anything immoral about receiving the retirement from Haliburton he earned prior to becoming VP.
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"On its face, a no-bid contract for Halliburton is at the very least suspicious, however, as the truth comes out we are learning that it was not so much a dubious deal by the Bush administration."
Btw, TP, I notice you tried to slip in an updated story from "Florida Today" as if you had cited it previously. No fair.
Gosh, TP, I wonder why none of the "big city" papers or networks has reported about this and is following up. It must be because Cheney had all the reporters who found out about it summarily executed, right? |
