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On 2007-07-01 13:11:15 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:

> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:57:11 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War
>> 
>> Cheney's Former Company Profits from Supporting Troops
>> by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
>> March 20th, 2003
> 
> 
> Not very current and certainly not from a reliable source. More
> left-winger propaganda.

CorpWatch is certainly a reliable source.

How about MSNBC?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5333896/

New Halliburton waste alleged
Former company auditor: ‘It’s just a gravy train’

Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent


By Lisa Myers and the NBC Investigative Unit

Updated: 4:28 p.m. ET July 26, 2004

The Pentagon has already awarded Halliburton Co., the controversial 
military contractor, deals worth up to $18 billion for its work in 
Iraq.  But now former Halliburton insiders have come forward with new 
allegations of massive waste of taxpayer money.

Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain who worked for Halliburton, was 
so upset by attacks on the company she e-mailed the CEO in December 
with a strategy on how to fight the "political slurs."  But today, 
after five months inside Halliburton's operation in Kuwait, deYoung has 
radically changed her opinion. "It’s just a gravy train," she said.

DeYoung audited accounts for Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR.  She claims 
there was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on 
directly to taxpayers.  She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste 
and fraud.  The company's response, according to deYoung was: "We can 
be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody’s 
going to care."


> A day late and a dollar short.

That would be your Daddy and the rent.

-- 
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in 
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after 
all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it 
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a 
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to 
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL 
THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of 
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY 
COUNTRY."
 
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials