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KBR to Get No-Bid Army Work as U.S. Alleges Kickbacks

No. It is out of a verifiable relationship which spanned nearly 20 years.

Yes even though no-bid contracts with Halliburton occurred both before and after Cheney and even though Cheney had absolutely no financial stake whatsoever in Halliburton and even though there was no other company on the planet that could perform the job which Halliburton was charged with doing, Cheney for some reason apparently out of the kindness of his heart decided to pull strings to get them the contract. :roll: Do you have any idea how delusional you sound?
 
A 3 million dollar difference in a 39 million dollar paycheck.

It was deferred salary which he had already earned, and the majority of it came in the form of stock options and once again the profits from his stocks go to charity! Cheney doesn't make a dime more or less no matter how well or poorly Halliburton does, are you saying there is something nefarious about Cheney getting money that he was owed? If anything Cheney went above and beyond what he needed to do by entering the voluntary yet binding contract insuring the proceeds from his stock profits would go to charity.
 
In all honesty I'm not seeing any outrage from "Bushneviks" over the awarding of the no bid contract. Even the poster you quoted was not complaining honestly that Obama shouldn't have given out no bid contracts becuase no bid contracts are bad.

They are showing outrage because Obama and those on the left for years now have been bitching about no bid contracts and halliburton, only to then turn around when they're in office and give a no bid contract to essentially halliburton. They "outrage" is over the hypocrisy of it all. They couldn't have expressed similar outrage at Bush over the no-bid/halliburton thing because the situation was not in any way the same, nor was the reason people were "outraged" the same.

Think you're a bit off base on that one dana.






I agree...... It shouldn't be a right winger starting this thread. ;)
 
so the party of pelosi is prepared to ASSASSINATE united states citizens abroad, NOT on a battlefield, with ZERO due process and based only on intelligence reports

mutallab who's not an american gets mirandized while new mexicans are murdered in yemen

you can't eavesdrop on em without a warrant, but a drone is definitely doable

typically incoherent and impromptu policy

the times has trouble with it, naturally

U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease - NYTimes.com
 
Seriously, you all need to look up the LOGCAP program. [1]

Haliburton/KBR won the LOGCAP III award via competitive bid, the oil-well fire "no-bid" contract was a reasonable extension of that contract. Just like extending (K)BRs LOGCAP I contract under Clinton in Bosnia was a reasonable extension. [2]

In extending the (K)BR contract (even though DynaCorp won the LOGCAP II award) "According to a later GAO study, the Army made the choice because 1) Brown & Root had already acquired extensive knowledge of how to work in the area; 2) the company "had demonstrated the ability to support the operation"; and 3) changing contractors would have been costly." [2]

Hmm, that sounds an awful lot like, "“Odierno said, ‘I’ve got three million pieces of equipment I’ve got to get out of Iraq, I’ve got 100 or so bases to close, I’ve got to move 80,000-plus people out of here and you want me to change horses in the middle of the stream?’” Casey recounted." from the OP source. Regarding the latest KBR "no-bid" contract.[3]

This is such a non-issue, in BOTH instances it's not even funny.

LOGCAP IV award has been broken up across 3 companies (KBR was one once again), as a result of all the complaining. [4]

J

[1] [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOGCAP]LOGCAP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

[2] The Bush/Iraq Scandal That Wasn't - Byron York - National Review Online
[3] KBR to Get No-Bid Army Work as U.S. Alleges Kickbacks (Update1) - BusinessWeek
[4] Army Splits Award Among 3 Firms - washingtonpost.com
 
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