HOW DICK CHENEY GOT AWAY WITH $35 MILLION

[MaryH]

from Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0819-03.htm

It's obvious that no mainstream news reporter has the gumption to seriously question Vice President Dick Cheney's ethics when he was chief executive of Halliburton, the oil-field services company that is currently embroiled in a scandal with the Pentagon due to its questionable accounting practices related to its work in war-torn Iraq.

Pity those journalists because this is the stuff Pulitzer's are made of. What's even more remarkable is that there's reams of documents in the public domain showing how Cheney cooked the books when he was CEO of Halliburton, which makes the vice president look like Ken Lay's twin brother.

Sorry if this is already posted somewhere. I didn't see it here.

[dave29]

1. Dick Cheney is an evil genius

he gets away with organizing the blowing up of things, killing thousands of innocent civilians, then making millions off of rebuilding the things he just blew up.

Then he repeats the process.

[rohit]

2. What else can you expect?

Democracy, n.:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
-- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
since withdrawn.

[MaryH]

3. I'm having trouble here

actually believing that all of this stuff has gone on - business as usual. So many conspiracy theories, too.

It just boggles the mind. I have worked in business most of my life and I know how business thinks. It runs on profits. And anything goes as long as you don't get caught. And winning is the most important thing - not how you got there.

That kind of thinking doesn't belong in the WH. A government for the people, by the people should not be based on business management principals.