Thursday, July 14, 2005

Jeffrey St. Clair: the Making of Halliburton

Jeffrey St. Clair: the Making of Halliburton: "There's no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq than Halliburton, the Houston, Texas-based oil services conglomerate, which has made billions from the war even in the face of charges of massive overbilling, shoddy work, official bribery and political influence-peddling.

The remarkable thing is that Halliburton's looting of Iraq and the US treasury happened in broad daylight, right under the nose of the press, the Democrats and Michael Moore, who made Dick Cheney's former company the bete noir of his film '9/11.' Nothing deterred the company from capitalizing on the war it helped orchestrate.

Even the Pentagon's own team of auditors, who nailed Halliburton red-handed for bilking the government for $108.4 million in overcharges for only 'one task order' of its work in Iraq, found their report languishing in a kind of bureaucratic netherland for many months."

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