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Some Ways Bush Profits from the War

21:39 / 25.03.03

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The first contracts for rebuilding post-war Iraq have been awarded, and Vice President Dick Cheney's old employer, Halliburton Co., is one of the early winners. The Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) unit of Halliburton (HAL: up $0.66 to $20.78, Research, Estimates), of which Cheney was CEO from 1995 to 2000, said late Monday that it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put out oil fires and make emergency repairs to Iraq's oil infrastructure.

President Bush Tuesday asked Congress for $489.3 million to cover the cost of repairing damage to Iraq's oil facilities, much or all of which could go to Halliburton or its subcontractors under the terms of its contract with the Army.

21:50 / 25.03.03

Why pretend anymore? Anyway, Congress should just make another tax cut. That will make the rich create more jobs, etc. Me am looking if Bush's face made of triangular facets.

No star here laces

23:29 / 25.03.03

It's the unsubtlety of it all that really galls, you know? I wish they'd at least pretend...

12:31 / 26.03.03

Yeah, I know what you mean BB, but there is a naieve, idealistic, ever hopeful part of me that prays that this blatent chronyism (sp?) is going to be one of the downfalls of this administration.

I my opinion, the more arrogant and gung-ho they behave the better chance we have that the world will see what is really going on and react with revulsion and disgust and hopefully reject what this administration seems to stand for.

It's a lot to hope for, but I reckon you've got to start somewhere.