Taking Out The Garbage

Forget Bush...this is the guy we needed to boot. Bush was a Howdy Doody puppet for this monster, and even if the intellectually challenged rich boy didn't know it himself, Cheney was the 'voice behind the curtain'. Always. With Bush as front man.

This blog has been mostly silent for a while because I've been anticipating the changing of the guard and feeling mighty happy about it. Just since Tuesday, those changes are already happening.

You may recall my rage at this story from back in July. Read it, and then read this one from just this morning. (And note, the toll is now eighteen, not sixteen. Two more have perished since I blogged that. My God.) Is the fact that the second story appears now just coincidence? I don't think so. I think the house of cards is falling at last...I think the military is finally able to speak out. I think that finally, finally the chokehold of the Vice-President's office has been loosened, and I believe we will see more of this sort of story in the coming weeks and months.

We have pointed a finger at the immoral and dangerous connection between Dick Cheney and his financial interests in Halliburton and KBR for YEARS, and it's been dismissed. This information from various sources on the net has floated out there like pond scum for nearly a decade-

KBR, Inc. - (Kellogg Brown & Root) NYSE: KBR is an American engineering and construction company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, based in Houston. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser's engineering subsidiary, The M. W. Kellogg Co., was merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR and its predecessors have won many contracts with the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

KBR is the largest non-union construction company in the United States.

In March 2008, the Boston Globe reported that KBR had avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands. More than 21,000 people working for KBR in Iraq - including about 10,500 Americans - are listed as employees of two companies, Service Employers International Inc., and Overseas Administrative Services, which exist on the island only in computer files in an office. KBR acknowledged that the companies were set up "in order to allow us to reduce certain tax obligations of the company and its employees." But KBR does claim the workers as its own with regards to the legal immunity extended to employers working in Iraq. A new piece of legislation may halt KBR's use of the Cayman subsidiaries.

Pretty goddamned infuritating, isn't it? And this article, from a story in THE GUARDIAN from 2004:

Mr. Cheney has not severed his links with Halliburton. Last year, he received $178,437 in deferred compensation from the company.


Reports suggest that the process of awarding contracts has changed under the Bush administration. A report to the House of Representatives committee on government reform last week noted that $107bn in contracts had been awarded without open competition. Nearly three-quarters of those exclusive arrangements - worth about $88bn - involved work in Iraq, the report said. Halliburton has won a sizeable share of them.

The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, helped to steer through a huge contract for the reconstruction of Iraq's oil industry on behalf of his old firm, Halliburton, Time magazine reported yesterday.

Mr. Cheney, who ran Halliburton for five years before he became George Bush's vice-president in 2000, has maintained that he severed all links to the company when he entered public life.

However, Time said it had obtained an internal email from a Pentagon official indicating that Mr Cheney's office had been intimately involved in awarding a multibillion-dollar contract for the restoration of Iraqi oil.

It's way past time for a thorough house-cleaning. Too bad so many lives were sacrificed while this Nero fiddled and Rome burned. In my world, this man would be stripped of his wealth, and it would be distributed to the widows and orphans of the Iraq War-- Americans, as well as the the families of innocent Iraqi deaths. No matter how you look at it, this man's fortune is blood money, and oh, he'll hang onto it. I sincerely hope it's cursed.



[postscript here: Well LOOKIE, LOOKIE, who should show up in my visitors log today, but these fellers

IP Address 34.102.204.218

Country United States

Region Texas

City Houston

ISP Halliburton Company]


(Must have their sniffers out there all the time, sweeping, sweeping the net. Damage control unit. Have to be the busiest sons-of-bitches anywhere. The lying and murdering fucks.)