The Donk flack drumbeat reverbs through the media as Cheney's ties to Halliburton are probed in an ongoing effort to drive the administrations numbers down. It's working...the small lies are repeated and amplified by a sympathic media until they are seen as truths.
Aides Back Cheney on Lack of Halliburton Ties
By Mike Allen and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 17, 2003; Page A16
Aides to Vice President Cheney yesterday defended his assertion this weekend that he has no financial ties to the Halliburton Co., even though he still receives deferred compensation from the Houston-based energy conglomerate.
Cheney was chairman and chief executive of Halliburton until he joined George W. Bush's ticket. The firm has won Iraqi reconstruction contracts worth more than $1.7 billion and stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars more under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
However a little Googling turns up an article with an interesting timeline regarding KR&B's contracts:
Peacekeeping Helped Cheney Company
By Karen Gullo
Associated Press Writer
Monday, Aug. 28, 2000; 3:25 p.m. EDT
"A big chunk of the business came in 1995 when troops were sent to Bosnia. The Army paid Brown & Root $546 million to provide logistical support for over 20,000 American soldiers in Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary. The company had already earned $269 million on the contract.Two years later (1997) Brown & Root received a sole-source contract worth $405 million to continue support services in Bosnia. Last year the company beat out one other bidder to win a five-year Army contract to support U.S. peacekeeping troops in the Balkans region. Originally awarded for $900 million, work under that contract has now reached $730 million and could go to more than double that figure because more troops were sent to Kosovo last year (1999). "
Some major contracts won by Halliburton Co.'s Brown & Root Services subsidiary to provide logistic support services for U.S. troops overseas:
1992-1997
Missions supported: Somalia, Zaire (Rwanda refugee crisis), Haiti, Southwest Asia, Italy (troops patrolling no-fly zone over Bosnia out of Aviano air base), Bosnia. Value: $815 million.
1997-1999
Missions supported: Bosnia, Hungary, Croatia. $405 million.
1999-2004
Missions supported: Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary. $1.8 billion
Is Ms Gullo saying that the DOD and Pentagon under Les Aspin (author of the failed two-theater military plan and Mogadeshu debaucle) and William Cohen were in Cheney's pocket?