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6. Well, it saved Dick Cheney's deferred compensation from Halliburton

Reply to lastlib (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 16, 2021, 12:54 PM

Aug 2021

It's up to each individual to gauge what the goal of invading and occupying Afghanistan was. The goal sold to the public was some half-baked notion of a Global War on Terror. The actual result of the invasion and occupation was to save Dick Cheney's deferred compensation package from Halliburton, which was in difficult financial straits in the first decade of the millennium.

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huh??? lastlib Aug 2021 #4

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Did those neocon PNACers ever get anything right? Don't think so. lastlib Aug 2021 #3

Well, it saved Dick Cheney's deferred compensation from Halliburton gratuitous Aug 2021 #6

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