Besides Halliburton,

[Lucky Luciano]

who could be doing the job in Iraq they are doing right now? Some right winger asked this question on another message board that is not all politics, but I feel it deserves a good reply. So, if Cheney was a man of integrity and did not want to have what could easily be perceived as a massive conflict of interest, what company could b*shco have contracted with to do the same job Halliburton is doing right now?

[Cyrano]

1. How about the Iraqis

They built all the palaces, bridges, infrastructure, etc. without our help. If we really wanted to help them, pay their workers to rebuild, not Halliburton.

[CompassionateLiberal]

2. Hmmm?

Good question. I'm guessing KBR has strategically "removed" any or all competition over the years. So, there may not be any options.

[Catshrink]

3. Cheney's Hallilburton wrote a Pentagon funded report ...

that resulted in Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown, & Root getting the contract in Iraq. Read this article:


http://halliburtionhell.blogspot.com/


"First the Pentagon under Dick Cheney paid KBR division of HALLIBURTON a total of 8.9 million dollars to produce a classified report detailing how private companies could provide logistic services:


In 1992, the Pentagon, then headed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, paid Brown & Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave Brown & Root an additional $5 million to update the report. Brown & Root (now called Kellogg Brown & Root, or KBR) is a subsidiary of Halliburton Corporation, which Cheney, the U.S. vice president, headed as CEO from 1995 to 2000. Brown & Root was also awarded contracts in 1995 and 1997 to provide logistical support in the Balkans, where the U.S. military has been enforcing the 1995 Dayton Peace accord that ended the war in former Yugoslavia. Those contracts mushroomed to $2.2 billion worth of payments over five years, according to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Privatizing Combat: The New World Order

It is astounding that we paid KBR division of HALLIBURTON near 9 million dollars under Defense Sec. Cheney to write the report that resulted in KBR division of HALLIBURTON’S receipt of 2.2 billion dollars for providing the logistics detailed in their own report under Halliburton President Cheney.!!!"