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rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 07:54 AM
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If Cheney has no ties to Halliburton, why is he....
so upset about an investigation of their lucrative contracts?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5289848/

Cheney curses Leahy on Senate floor
Aides: Vice president used ‘f-word’ in heated exchange

"...Cheney, who as vice president is president of the Senate, then ripped into Leahy for the Democratic senator’s criticism this week of alleged war profiteering in Iraq by Halliburton, the oil services company that Cheney once ran.

Leahy and other Democrats have called for congressional hearings into whether the vice president helped the firm win lucrative contracts in Iraq after the U.S.-led war that toppled Saddam Hussein...."

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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 07:57 AM
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1. That was my first question, too!
No ties? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-25-04 08:01 AM
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2. Truthout.com has an article
Edited on Fri Jun-25-04 08:01 AM by billybob537
detailing Chenrons office working the details of the Halliburton deal.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/021104F.shtml Long article but worth the time.

edit for spelling
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