Halliburton tops the list. Of the other companies listed, are any of them chaired, or owned by members of the Bush government?
Ah, yes. Early Frank Capra. He did great work, didn't he? "Why We Fight" is a part of my video library as well. WWII was indeed "the good fight", and fought for the right reasons. Which is more than anyone can say for the current war.
I believe that most of the companies names which you seek are named within Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9-11". Haliburton is but one. Sorry that I can't recall their names at the moment, but I do recall that both the Bush and the bin Laden families were intimately connected to at least one of them.
hmm. It seems that this Eugene Jarecki borrowed the title and several pages from Capra without so much as an honorable mention! tsk tsk. Ah well, at least his intentions are honorable.
'...the [oil] legislation Mr. Bush promised never materialized, and on Wednesday attempts to arrive at a compromise oil law collapsed.
What's particularly revealing is the cause of the breakdown. Last month the provincial government in Kurdistan, defying the central government, passed its own oil law; last week a Kurdish Web site announced that the provincial government had signed a production-sharing deal with the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas, and that seems to have been the last straw.
Now here's the thing: Ray L. Hunt, the chief executive and president of Hunt Oil, is a close political ally of Mr. Bush. More than that, Mr. Hunt is a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a key oversight body.
Some commentators have expressed surprise at the fact that a businessman with very close ties to the White House is undermining U.S. policy. But that isn't all that surprising, given this administration's history. Remember, Halliburton was still signing business deals with Iran years after Mr. Bush declared Iran a member of the "axis of evil."
No, what's interesting about this deal is the fact that Mr. Hunt, thanks to his policy position, is presumably as well-informed about the actual state of affairs in Iraq as anyone in the business world can be. By putting his money into a deal with the Kurds, despite Baghdad's disapproval, he's essentially betting that the Iraqi government - which hasn't met a single one of the major benchmarks Mr. Bush laid out in January - won't get its act together. Indeed, he's effectively betting against the survival of Iraq as a nation in any meaningful sense of the term.
The smart money, then, knows that the surge has failed, that the war is lost, and that Iraq is going the way of Yugoslavia. And I suspect that most people in the Bush administration - maybe even Mr. Bush himself - know this, too...'A Surge, and Then a Stab
'Some reports say the State Department has spent $678 million alone with Blackwater since 2003...
...Nearly all Washington's contracts for mercenaries are awarded without competitive bidding to firms close to the Republican Party. Blackwater's owners are major contributors.'www.torontosun.com
