Dick Cheney quit his post as CEO of Halliburton in 2000 during the presidential election that year. Halliburton and it's civilian subsidiary Kellog Brown-Root have been instrumentally involved in every US military operation of the past two decades. They have supplied everything from laundry services and catering to fuel for the military. They have also been awarded the lion's share of "no-bid" contracts in post-war Iraq, and are a key player in the global business of building oil & gas pipelines. If you doubt what I say, I welcome your research in the matter, you may also find that Cheney's mentor, a certain Donald Rumsfeld was also highly involved with the transactions between the Pentagon and Halliburton, and how wouldn't he, after all, he was the defense secretary...
If this is a little too much to fathom since such grand crime and corruption does not happen in the very heart of the developed world, think again... Corporate interests are precisely what our capitalist global economy is built on, armies, diplomats, and politicians are merely tools that service them.
Again, I will point out that the USA had every right to go and seek Bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda figureheads after the Taleban government of Afghanistan so brazenly refused to cough them up (and we can further discuss this through the shame & disgrace that was Guantanamo), but what on earth did regime change in Iraq, an Iraq that was brought to it's knees through 12 years of sanctions on everything, have to do with it? I fail to see what threat the under equipped, underfunded forces of the Iraqi army posed to anyone. If regime change in Iraq was so important, I'm sure a tomahawk or two, or a few black ops specialists, could have done a much cleaner, cheaper and ultimately less damaging job.
Dick Cheney quit his post as CEO of Halliburton in 2000 during the presidential election that year. Halliburton and it's civilian subsidiary Kellog Brown-Root have been instrumentally involved in every US military operation of the past two decades. They have supplied everything from laundry services and catering to fuel for the military. They have also been awarded the lion's share of "no-bid" contracts in post-war Iraq, and are a key player in the global business of building oil & gas pipelines. If you doubt what I say, I welcome your research in the matter, you may also find that Cheney's mentor, a certain Donald Rumsfeld was also highly involved with the transactions between the Pentagon and Halliburton, and how wouldn't he, after all, he was the defense secretary...
If this is a little too much to fathom since such grand crime and corruption does not happen in the very heart of the developed world, think again... Corporate interests are precisely what our capitalist global economy is built on, armies, diplomats, and politicians are merely tools that service them.
Again, I will point out that the USA had every right to go and seek Bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda figureheads after the Taleban government of Afghanistan so brazenly refused to cough them up (and we can further discuss this through the shame & disgrace that was Guantanamo), but what on earth did regime change in Iraq, an Iraq that was brought to it's knees through 12 years of sanctions on everything, have to do with it? I fail to see what threat the under equipped, underfunded forces of the Iraqi army posed to anyone. If regime change in Iraq was so important, I'm sure a tomahawk or two, or a few black ops specialists, could have done a much cleaner, cheaper and ultimately less damaging job.