Cheney's Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War

Run 'Obama Haliburton' on goog and a nice cozy relationship comes up between Google and Obama.....

Google is still facing a litany of cases at the state level–Texas, California, Ohio, New York, and Oklahoma–as well as the European Union. Yet Google walked away from the federal case with a non-binding “handshake” agreement in which it says it will make minor changes to some of its search functions. Moreover, there is no way for the FTC or any other agency to enforce the terms of the agreement should Google decide not to comply.
Regardless of how people feel about antitrust laws, the hallmark of corruption is to selectively enforce laws in a way that harms your opponents and accommodates your allies. In this case, an administration that has been aggressive on antitrust enforcement when, for instance, spiking the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, took no enforceable action against Google even after finding wrongdoing.
It raises a major ethical conflict when the beneficiary of an agreement with terms so favorable that their propriety is questioned, has such incestuous ties to the very administration granting the dubious arrangement.
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http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/google-the-halliburton-of-the-obama-administration%E2%80%A8/
 
Look up the term negligent homicide instead of making a fool of your self. They cut corners to make a buck and killed a soldier in the process.

This has nothing to do with capitalism so go pedal that BS somewhere else. This has to do with a huge corporation making a ton of cash off of the lives of soldiers and pockets of the tax payer with complete disregard for soldiers lives. Tell me why Haliburton should walk off with $39 billion while soldiers loose their homes and wait in line to receive care for wounds received in combat?

So how much is a soldiers life worth? They got compensated? Are you freaking serious? That's one of the most moronic thing I have heard. I dare you to tell that to the family of Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth. Let me know when you do. I'll call the morgue to wipe up the blood stain after his family turns you into a blood stain on the concrete.
 
You want to talk about negligent homicide?

Ask the families of Amb. Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty whether they feel there was negligent homicide involved in their deaths...
 
Yes, in terms of profiting off war and the lives of soldiers. Not a comment on capitalism in general.

So how much is the life of a solder worth? What is adequate compensation?
 
Ms Tree said:
Yes, in terms of profiting off war and the lives of soldiers. Not a comment on capitalism in general.

So how much is the life of a solder worth? What is adequate compensation?
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NYT
The Military's Method
ON Feb. 1, an American soldier - who was married with three children - was killed in Iraq.
The benefits to this serviceman's family, depending on how long each member lives and whether he or she goes on to college, could amount to about $1.9 million over their lifetimes.
(That figure is in today's dollars. The face value of the money would grow over time, to allow for the effects of inflation and keep its purchasing power from eroding.)
Military families face a complicated death-benefits structure that evolves as children grow up and spouses retire or remarry. Bradley J. Snyder, the emeritus president of Armed Forces Services Corporation, which advises families, urges them to use benefits counseling provided by the military to avoid losing money owed to them.
Mr. Snyder calculated the benefits to this soldier's wife and children:
LUMP SUMS:
Social Security death benefit: $255
Military death gratuity: $100,000
Military life insurance: $400,000
TOTAL: $500,255
POTENTIAL MONEY FOR COLLEGE
(paid while they attend): $199,602
SOCIAL SECURITY, SURVIVOR BENEFITS
(total over lifetimes): $1.24 million
This assumes his wife will live to age 80. The annual benefit will start at $62,808, but decline to $12,804 after the children reach 18. When she is 62, it will rise to $23,904.
The soldier's base pay had been about $36,000 a year.
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Ms Tree said:
Yes, in terms of profiting off war and the lives of soldiers. Not a comment on capitalism in general.

So how much is the life of a solder worth? What is adequate compensation?
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I guess we should only open up bids to supply our soldiers to non-profit organizations.
 
Ms Tree said:
Right after you ask the 66 killed while W Bush was POTUS.
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1) How many of those attacks were labeled as civil disobedience over a purported video?

2) How many of those were left to fend for themselves after asking for help?

3) How many of those embassies or consulates saw their security intentionally reduced?

4) How many of those attacks weren't suicide bombings, or continued for hours afterward?

I'll give you a hint: none.


Calcutta, India 1/2/02 - 0 Americans
Karachi, Pakistan 1/14/02 - 0 Americans
Islamabad, Pakistan 2/28/03 - 0 Americans
Tashkent, Uzbekistan 6/30/04 - 0 Americans
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 12/6/04 - 0 Americans
Karachi, Pakistan 3/2/06 1 American, killed in his car, not the Embassy
Sana'a, Yemen 3/18/08 - 0 Americans
Istanbul, Turkey 7/9/08 - 0 Americans
Sana'a, Yemen 9/17/08 - 0 Americans

We won't ever be able to stop terrorists from attacking hard targets in foreign countries.

Maybe you're confused over what the issue with Benghazi is. The core issue isn't that the embassy was attacked and people died.

The core issues are the negligence that lead up to the deaths, and how the self-preservation of the Administration took priority over telling the truth.
 
eolesen said:
1) How many of those attacks were labeled as civil disobedience over a purported video?

2) How many of those were left to fend for themselves after asking for help?

3) How many of those embassies or consulates saw their security intentionally reduced?

4) How many of those attacks weren't suicide bombings, or continued for hours afterward?

I'll give you a hint: none.


Calcutta, India 1/2/02 - 0 Americans
Karachi, Pakistan 1/14/02 - 0 Americans
Islamabad, Pakistan 2/28/03 - 0 Americans
Tashkent, Uzbekistan 6/30/04 - 0 Americans
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 12/6/04 - 0 Americans
Karachi, Pakistan 3/2/06 1 American, killed in his car, not the Embassy
Sana'a, Yemen 3/18/08 - 0 Americans
Istanbul, Turkey 7/9/08 - 0 Americans
Sana'a, Yemen 9/17/08 - 0 Americans

We won't ever be able to stop terrorists from attacking hard targets in foreign countries.

Maybe you're confused over what the issue with Benghazi is. The core issue isn't that the embassy was attacked and people died.

The core issues are the negligence that lead up to the deaths, and how the self-preservation of the Administration took priority over telling the truth.
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Not sure the why matters. According to former SoD Gates we did not have troops on call in the area and they would not have arrived in time. He said his decision probably would have been the same.Not sure. How many embassies have seen their security reduced? There was a $300 million dollar reduction in embassy budgets. Perhaps that had an impact?Not sure why that matters either. Our embassys are in hostile areas. Attacks will take place whether they be riots, bombings or what ever. I think the anger over the cover up verses the deaths is disingenuous at best. Had Obama come out and said we phucked up, our bad, the right would still be up in arms and you would be on here railing against him. So spare me the drama.I do agree that trying to spin this was a stupid bone head idea. Not sure why politicians continue to do it. It always comes out in the end.
 
Seatacus said:
I guess we should only open up bids to supply our soldiers to non-profit organizations.
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How about we don't invade sovereign countries on false premises?

Rummy got to prove his theories on modern warfare... Uh, yeah... Right.

Cheney's buddies got rich

The military industrial complex got bigger

The neocons had a convenient excuse for replacing a regime they no longer liked, primarily because the leader they installed had quit minding his betters, with one theynthoughtnthey would like better.

Dumbya got a pair of pistols to hang on his wall--how very Texan of Him.

The US picked up ~2 trillion in unfunded, borrowed war spending, and the ever escalating cost to borrow the money from people who do not like us just to pay the interest.

The military and VA was saddled with a lifetime of trying to care for the ones who came home maimed.

The Bush admin tried to weasel out of caring for them, and indeed to weasel out of trying to protect them, by equipping them properly in the first place.

~5000 Americans lost their lives

Thousands more were maimed

Thousands of Americans lost fathers, mothers, children, husbands and wives, either to death, maiming, or to multiple tours in a war of aggression half way around the world.

We killed dozens, or maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraquis, and destroyed the lives of virtually an entire country and people, in an invasion designed to spread our ideology to their world.

(We have a name for that)

While the rest of us went shopping

How about we don't do that anymore?

Then we won't have arguments over how much Cheney's buddies made off the war.
 
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