Two sites to put on your Must Check list for things like this 

www.truthout.com

and

www.commondreams.org.


If I was into politics, which of course I'm not, I'd have both of 
those sites bookmarked and check them pretty much every day.  They're 
conglomeration sites, as well as news sources... think of them as 
progressive answers to Drudgery.

I was under the impression that Halliburton got the contract on a no-
bid deal, but it might have been simply a closed bid process.  In any 
event, fair and public and aboveboard and honest were NOT part of the 
deal.
On 24 May 2003 at 6:05, Michael Nellis wrote:

> Hi, Velociraptor.
> 
> --- Karen Rhodes  wrote:
> 
> > BTW, you do know, don't you, that the contract for managing the oil
> > fields in Iraq during the "transition" to a
"free" government went 
> > to Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old company.  They weren't the low 
> > bidder.
> 
> Do you have a source for this?  Iraq has pretty much dropped off the
> media radar screen since lack of warfare creates non-story status so
> I haven't been hearing anything about what's going on over there from
> Western media.  That's something I should mention in my Chronology.
> 
> =====               Albest,

                        Clayton

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