no War profits in this economy, no sir!

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Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War

Cheney's Former Company Profits from Supporting Troops

Special Series
By Pratap Chatterjee
Special to CorpWatch
March 20, 2003

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As the first bombs rain down on Baghdad, CorpWatch has
learned that thousands of employees of Halliburton,
Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, are
working alongside US troops in Kuwait and Turkey under
a package deal worth close to a billion dollars.
According to US Army sources, they are building tent
cities and providing logistical support for the war in
Iraq in addition to other hot spots in the "war on
terrorism."

While recent news coverage has speculated on the
post-war reconstruction gravy train that corporations
like Halliburton stand to gain from, this latest
information indicates that Halliburton is already
profiting from war time contracts worth hundreds of
millions of dollars.

Cheney served as chief executive of Halliburton until
he stepped down to become George W. Bush's running
mate in the 2000 presidential race. Today he still
draws compensation of up to a million dollars a year
from the company, although his spokesperson denies
that the White House helped the company win the
contract. [...]


"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying
and selling. The murdering and the violence are
self-policing, and can be entrusted to
non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is
useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as
diversion from the real movements of the War. It
provides raw material to be recorded into History, so
that children may be taught History as sequences of
violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a
stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to
try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still
here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of
markets."
Gravity's Rainbow, p. 105






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