Halliburton is a handy target for Democrats

[Rose Siding]

In the fall of 2002, a group of Pentagon advisers assessing the condition of Iraq's oil fields saw the need for a plan to repair damage from the impending war. The effort had to be secret, because the government had not publicly committed itself to fighting, and it had to be done by trustworthy experts.

The Energy Infrastructure Planning Group turned to a familiar resource: Halliburton Co., the global oil services company where Dick Cheney was chief executive until a couple of weeks after he was nominated for vice president.

It was a small project, worth $1.9 million to a company that brought in $12.6 billion in revenue that year. But it turned out to be the bridge to something much larger. Four months later, Pentagon officials granted Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., Halliburton's engineering and construction subsidiary, one of the contracting plums of the war: a classified no-bid deal worth up to $7 billion to do the restoration work.

Details about the genesis of those secret contracts have become part of an intensifying election-year effort by Democrats in Congress and the presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry to question whether Halliburton became one of the Defense Department's favorite contractors because Cheney is vice president..........

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6032364/

[unfrigginreal]

1. Will this "issue" help us in someway?

I really would like to hear others opinions. I'd rather keep the focus on Bush and Iraq.

[mazzarro]

3. Cronyism ties in very well with the incompetence of this

mis-administration. BushCo can be hammered with these no-bid contracts they have awarded left-right-and-center to their corporate supporters. Also it can be shown that this has been their MO when it comes to all their administrative decisions and of course legislations by the reThuglican Congress. Yes it will help but it has to be repeated many more times in order to sink into the subconscious of the average voter.

[saigon68]

2. Corporate Criminals

Whose profits are a direct result of more than a thousand of our children needlessly sacrificed.

I'd love to see a few of these mother fuckers go to prison.

[stickdog]

4. Remember, Cheney still has 266,000 unexercised Halliburton options.

That makes him both an unabashed war profiteer and a walking conflict of interest.

[Eye and Monkey]

5. HAL is a handy target because they get dirtier and dirtier, day by day.

But I guess Republican tax-payers really do love to see their tax dollars lining the pockets of "the haves and have-mores", seeing how they avert their eyes from the blatant corruption.

[annabanana]

6. Less detail...more punch

People know the name Halliburton (thank you late night TV) and they draw links to Enron (also infamous big business)

All it needs is a chantable slogan.

[oasis]

7. Cheney ignores facts and urges his president into an invasion of Iraq. His

former company gets a no-bid contract to build the country after it's bommbed all to hell. Halliburton then submits phoney bills for payment.

Somebody's getting rich from this war folks.