No Bid Halliburton Sucks Iraqi Titti!!!!!!

[Enceladus]

"Two Democratic lawmakers say Vice Resident Dick Cheney's former company,
Halliburton, is gouging U.S. taxpayers while importing gasoline into Iraq...
Reps. Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan complained to
the Bush administration that Halliburton's KBR subsidiary is billing the
Army between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon, while the average price for Middle
East gasoline is 71 cents. They also complained that Iraqis are charged
between 4 cents and 15 cents at the pump for the imported gasoline.
'Although Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, the U.S.
taxpayer is, in effect, subsidizing over 90 percent of the cost of gasoline
sold in Iraq,' the lawmakers said... In a further move against Halliburton,
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced Wednesday he would propose barring
the government from awarding Iraq reconstruction contracts to companies that
maintain close financial ties to the resident, vice resident or members of
the resident's Cabinet."
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-halliburton-iraq,0,3894769,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[William PF]

Post by Enceladus
"Two Democratic lawmakers say Vice Resident Dick Cheney's former company,
Halliburton, is gouging U.S. taxpayers while importing gasoline into Iraq...
Reps. Henry Waxman of California and John Dingell of Michigan complained to
the Bush administration that Halliburton's KBR subsidiary is billing the
Army between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon, while the average price for Middle
East gasoline is 71 cents. They also complained that Iraqis are charged
between 4 cents and 15 cents at the pump for the imported gasoline.
'Although Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, the U.S.
taxpayer is, in effect, subsidizing over 90 percent of the cost of gasoline
sold in Iraq,' the lawmakers said... In a further move against Halliburton,
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., announced Wednesday he would propose barring
the government from awarding Iraq reconstruction contracts to companies that
maintain close financial ties to the resident, vice resident or members of
the resident's Cabinet."
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-halliburton-iraq,0,3894769,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Don't fret, dubya and Cheney were precsient so they took care of
everything. Remember this little piece of news over the summer:

<Begin quote> Executive Order 13303 decrees that "any attachment,
judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial
process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void," with
respect to the Development Fund for Iraq and "all Iraqi petroleum and
petroleum products, and interests therein."

In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it
will be immune from legal proceedings in the United States. Anything
that could go, and elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil
operations will be immune to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an
explosion at an oil refinery; the employment of slave labor to build a
pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security; the release of
billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The president,
with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims,
creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated
through legal action. Bush's order unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to
be the unassailable province of U.S. corporations. <End quote>
http://www.ocnus.net/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=28&num=6200



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