Cheney is licking his chops
The March 20 edition of Corporate Watch reported that
Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, is
working side by side with the Pentagon in a business deal worth
close to $1 billion. This deal commenced from the very
beginning of the war.
The deal breaks down to Halliburton providing tent cities
and other "logistical support" to the U.S. war effort and the
U.S. taxpayers footing the bill. Cheney held the position of
chief executive officer at Halliburton before taking office. He
still receives "compensation" from the company to the tune of
$1 million a year.
Halliburton's subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, has
worked out a 10-year contract with the Pentagon entitled
Logistics Civil Augmentation Program. According to a
spokesperson for the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock
Island Arsenal in Illinois, the federal government has given
carte blanche to LOGCAP to participate in military operations
for profit throughout the world, including Afghanistan,
Djibouti, Georgia, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
So the next time you hear about the U.S. government
"liberating" the Iraqi people and crying crocodile tears for
dead U.S. soldiers, think about the true motives of Bush and
company--world domination and profits.
--Monica Moorehead
Reprinted from the April 3, 2003, issue of
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