Well, except for coordinating the contract such that the white house won't have anything to object to about.
Note the previous complete denial by Cheney's office of having anything to do with civilian contracts. Then note the email quote demonstrating its falsity.
[ May 31, 2004, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: fugu13 ]
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Heh. Hush, you. Enough with you and your liberal media. Declaring Bush and his administration corrupt is unpatriotic. Don't we have better things to concentrate on? What's past is past. Really, you and your scapegoating. It's liberal permissiveness that let this happen in the first place. In fact, it's a brilliant move to show Iraq that hey, we're human, we're as fallible as you are. Great PR move, O Captain my Captain.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Why would the VP NOT be informed of the possible contracts, reguardless of what company won the bid?
I'm not saying that Cheney's clean, I just don't thin this proves anything other than the VP was the contact for the WH on this matter. The VP doesn't award the contract, but I can see why he would need to know the provisions of any contract that was pending final aproval.
Kwea
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
This information is from a book by David Icke titled "Tales from the Time Loop" so I make that statement for those familar with Icke's work, which could be considered on the fringe in nearly every area.
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When we are talking about defense contractors...that make billions form government contracts, we must never forget the Carlyle Group, much loved by the bin Laden family, and headed by former CIA number two, Frank Carlucci, and people like father George Bush and his Secretary of State at the time of the Gulf War, James Baker who has been asked by boy Bush to head "restruction" in Iraq. Carlyle chairman Carlucci is on the Board of Trustees of the...Rand Corporation and co-chair of the Rand Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board. Carlucci and James Baker are close friends and associates of the current US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Baker was a classmate of Rumsfeld at Yale University and Carlucci was Rumfeld's roommate at Yale. Colin Powell has also described Carlucci as his "mentor". Carlucci admits that in February 2001 he met with Rumsfeld and Cheney to talk about military policy. This was at a time when Carlyle had several defense projects worth billions under consideration.
...and then...
This is how once Cheney took over, Halliburton was able to expand so rapidly and become the fifth largest defense contractor in the US, so benefiting so enormously from conflicts like the "war on terrorism". Cheney was the Defense Secretary in the Gulf conflict supposedly aimed at Saddam Hussein in 1991 and made big profits for himself and Halliburton after 1998 through deals with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The London Financial Times reported that Cheney oversaw 23.8 million worth of contracts for the sale of "oil industry" technology and services to Iraq. Among these companies [he used] were Dresser Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump to hide the Cheney Halliburton connection.
So get this: these contracts for Cheney's Halliburton group were helping to rebuild the oil infrastructure of Iraq destroyed by the bombs dropped by the US planes commanded from the Pentagon by the then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Now, they are at it again after the Bush-Cheney administration re-bombed Iraq in 2003!
Cheney is the biggest shareholder in Halliburton with a stake of some 45.5 million dollars and the company's board includes Lawrence Eagleburger who held State Dept posts under father George Bush and is an executive of the infamous Kissinger Associates.
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From what I have pieced together, we have the Carlyle Group, of which the bin Laden family holds chair positions on the board. Father George Bush is a "consultant" and paid a 6 figure salary to advise the Carlyle Group. So when Osama bin Laden bombs a runway or destroys an oil well, his relatives and the Bush/Cheney associates win contracts that are paid by American taxpayers and make them all rich.
Carlucci, the number two man at the CIA, most likely had intimate contact with father George Bush who was at one time Director of the CIA, and he was the roommate of Donald Rumsfeld, who BOTH know James Baker of the Reagan/Bush administrations.
This is scary stuff indeed. It seems the collective core of power in the White House are so inter-related though so many connections: corporations, college, etc... that I doubt that it will ever be seperated until there is a change in the White House from the President on down!