Posted by zeugma on January 19, 2006, at 16:24:48
In reply to Re: could this be true? » caraher, posted by Declan on January 19, 2006, at 14:37:05
> Was it Reagan, or maybe not, was it Goldwater, who said 'we could pave Vietnam and be home by Christmas'?
> DeclanI don't know, but it was certainly Cheney who said that Iraq represented a unique business opportunity, excuse me, that the Americans would be greeted as liberators.
Halliburton is certainly making profits, but the execs (of whom Cheney was one until recently) are the only ones who are profiting. The average Halliburton worker sent to Iraq gets blown up with alarming frequency by those self-sacrificing individuals, affiliated with al Qaeda or not, that are opposed to Halliburton business interests.
Cheney is a very safe man in his bunker. He is not the sort to sacrifice himself, not even in the name of the corporate good.
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