Frank Rich in the Times today (typed in from the print edition):
Price of a share of Halliburton stock:
March 19, 2003: $20.50
March 18, 2007: $64.12 (adjusted for a split in 2006)
So, I think all the naysayers and Nervous Nellies who are all “greatest strategic disaster in American history” need to calm down and take a more balanced view!
I mean, if it hadn’t been for the war in Iraq, Halliburton would never have been able to move its headquarters to Dubai! Let’s be reasonable, here, people.
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Nice post. I wonder how many people are aware of the “Enroning” (plunder)of America. They are already talking about raising tolls on the Indiana Skyway. The one they just lease to Spain. No repairs, potholes, great payouts to the landlords but no maintainence - might fuck up the profit margin.
Walter Reed was ripped off
… by the very same cynical crooks. In February of this year, the contract to lease out services, cutting the WR staff from @300 experienced caregivers to 50 SCABS, was awarded to KBR and Co., which during the 3 years of squabbling over the arrangement was sloughed off from Halliburton.
It isn’t just the taxpayers and the troops on the ground, its wounded vets as well that are mugged by the departing Halliburton. It should be disqualified from receiving further U.S. contracts on so many grounds..
Ruth