Halliburton Wins Iraq Contract

[BDawg]

CNN Link

Suprise, suprise, suprise...

 

[smp]

shock and awe

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: smp
shock and awe

That must be what they meant by the phrase.

 

[Fausto]

Oh boy......this should be interesting...

 

[MinorityReport]

Bush is hooking us all up.

The US economy might be the worst in 10 years but Bush's good friends are minting money from Iraq war and Homland Security.


Vote Bush 2004 please !

 

Originally posted by: MinorityReport
Bush is hooking us all up.

The US economy might be the worst in 10 years but Bush's good friends are minting money from Iraq war and Homland Security.


Vote Bush 2004 please !

 

This is wrong and someone is going to pay for it dearly.


(The above statement is a sarcastic remark)

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: MinorityReport
Bush is hooking us all up.

The US economy might be the worst in 10 years but Bush's good friends are minting money from Iraq war and Homland Security.


Vote Bush 2004 please !

You're one of Bush's friends? Lucky you.

 

[Queasy]

B.A.U - Business As Usual.


Seriously, tell me that this isn't the way the business is normally conducted in D.C. for the past...ohhh, forever.

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: smp
shock and awe

 

[shiner]

Do you people even realize that there aren't many companies in the U.S. even capable of handling these type of fires? That a contract would go to Halliburton isn't a surprise and shouldn't be viewed as some shady deal. They have expertise in this area and in a case like this you want the best people for the job. Unless you want to go dig up Red Adair I don't think you are going to find anyone better than Halliburton to do the job. Some of you people really need to stop looking for conspiracies everywhere.

 

[Thegonagle]

Surprise, Surprise. . .

EDIT: Oh, Halliburton won a contract to put out oil well fires? That's what this is about? (the link is not currently working for me) That does make sense, since there are few companies equipped for such a task.

I thought this was about the Halliburton owned construction subsidiary that was in the running for contracts to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after they blew it all to hell. (Did you all know about that? My comment stands. . . Surprise, Surprise. . .)

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Do you people even realize that there aren't many companies in the U.S. even capable of handling these type of fires? That a contract would go to Halliburton isn't a surprise and shouldn't be viewed as some shady deal. They have expertise in this area and in a case like this you want the best people for the job. Unless you want to go dig up Red Adair I don't think you are going to find anyone better than Halliburton to do the job. Some of you people really need to stop looking for conspiracies everywhere.

didn't you know that companies are supposed to fold once they have a former employee go into politics?

 

Hey !

Let's give the contract to the French, Chinese and Russians

Oops, forgot N.Korea.

 

[Corn]

Halliburton's KBR unit was involved in putting out the 1991 fires.

Suprise, suprise.......well maybe not. I'm absolutely shocked that the US government would award a contract to a company that has a known history of accomplishing feats that the government currently has concern for. It just boggles my mind...........

 

[CPA]

So? Who else would you have handle this? Haliburton is, I believe, the largest oil pipeline engineering and repair company in the country. Oh, and if you forgot, the Dems forced Cheney to sell all of his Halliburton stock prior to the election.

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: CPA
So? Who else would you have handle this? Haliburton is, I believe, the largest oil pipeline engineering and repair company in the country. Oh, and if you forgot, the Dems forced Cheney to sell all of his Halliburton stock prior to the election.

democrats forced?? that's too bad. i would have expected him to have sold them of his own volition.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: MinorityReport
Bush is hooking us all up.

The US economy might be the worst in 10 years but Bush's good friends are minting money from Iraq war and Homland Security.


Vote Bush 2004 please !

Hell yeah! I could do with another 1,000 back in taxes, even if it means I am going to lose another 10grand on the market! I hate that man.

 

[Corn]

Oh, and if you forgot, the Dems forced Cheney to sell all of his Halliburton stock prior to the election.

Oh c'mon! Don't you know, Cheney has a backroom deal going and is going to make billions off this and one day rule the world!!!!

 

[burnedout]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Do you people even realize that there aren't many companies in the U.S. even capable of handling these type of fires? That a contract would go to Halliburton isn't a surprise and shouldn't be viewed as some shady deal. They have expertise in this area and in a case like this you want the best people for the job. Unless you want to go dig up Red Adair I don't think you are going to find anyone better than Halliburton to do the job. Some of you people really need to stop looking for conspiracies everywhere.

If I'm not mistaken, one of the Halliburton subsidiaries also assisted the Russians in the Kursk submarine recovery.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Haliburton has worked in and around the Middle East for years; it's not like they're new to all this. They are perhaps the best at what they do anyway. A friend of the family works for a subsidiary of theirs in Kuwait.

 

[KC5AV]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ

Originally posted by: CPA
So? Who else would you have handle this? Haliburton is, I believe, the largest oil pipeline engineering and repair company in the country. Oh, and if you forgot, the Dems forced Cheney to sell all of his Halliburton stock prior to the election.

democrats forced?? that's too bad. i would have expected him to have sold them of his own volition.

Just because he had stock in the company?

 

[NightTrain]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Unless you want to go dig up Red Adair I don't think you are going to find anyone better than Halliburton to do the job.

Red Adair is dead?

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Corn

Oh, and if you forgot, the Dems forced Cheney to sell all of his Halliburton stock prior to the election.

Oh c'mon! Don't you know, Cheney has a backroom deal going and is going to make billions off this and one day rule the world!!!!

Come on, why would a guy who has a heart that resembles a sausage want to rule the world?

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: NightTrain

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Unless you want to go dig up Red Adair I don't think you are going to find anyone better than Halliburton to do the job.

Red Adair is dead?

I thought I had heard he died back in 97....just did some searching and found that he is indeed still alive. That's good news....get him on a plane and get him over there.....heck he's only 88 and I bet he still has some fire fighting in him.

Here's a link for those who don't know who Red Adair is.