------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 3, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
CHENEY IS LICKING HIS CHOPS
The March 20 edition of Corporate Watch reported that Halliburton, Vice Pres i dent Dick Cheney's former company, is working side by side with the Pentagon in a business deal worth close to $1 billion. This deal commenced from the very beginning of the war.
The deal breaks down to Halliburton providing tent cities and other "logistical support" to the U.S. war effort and the U.S. taxpayers footing the bill. Cheney held the position of chief executive officer at Halliburton before taking office. He still receives "compensation" from the company to the tune of $1 million a year.
Halliburton's subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, has worked out a 10- year contract with the Pentagon entitled Logistics Civil Augmentation Program. According to a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois, the federal government has given carte blanche to LOGCAP to participate in military operations for profit throughout the world, including Afghanistan, Djibouti, Georgia, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
So the next time you hear about the U.S. government "liberating" the Iraqi people and crying crocodile tears for dead U.S. soldiers, think about the true motives of Bush and company--world domination and profits.
--Monica Moorehead
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