Halliburton contracts...at $600 million
Cheney's former company could earn billions more.
Vice President Dick Cheney's former company already has garnered more than $600 million in military work related to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and potentially could earn billions more without having to compete with other companies.
As the Army's sole provider of troop support services, Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary has received work orders totaling $529.4 million related to the two wars under a 10-year contract that has no spending ceiling...more [CNN]
Isn't capitalism just grand! You have to love the way this works. They give what will ultimately amount to over a billion dollars of free money to the company Cheney was CEO of before becoming Vice President. The same company that used European subsidiaries to run millions of dollars of contracts with Iraq, while it was illegal for US companies to do the same. I guess they are real patriots. I think that history will put this administration right there along with the Reagan Administration as the two most corrupt in the past 100 years...mj
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