"Another attempt by the Bush regime to throw investigators off the scent is collapsing. This oil-for-slush part of the ever-widening scandal hits U.S. CEO Dick Cheney right where he lives: inside Halliburton's bulging vault.
The press isn't fully onto the scope of this overall, monumental scandal yet, reporting bits and pieces but not tying them together. Like last year's tsunami and this year's Indo-Pak quake, it's so big that putting a name to it is difficult. Maybe we ought to just call it Profligate, in honor of the wastrels of lives and money who are running our constitutional democracy into the ground.
To be fully informed on the oil-for-slush segment of the scandal — I've used that phrase to describe a narrower part of the Iraq "reconstruction" skullduggery — you have to rely on such watchdogs as Halliburton Watch, which thoroughly charts our country's progress (or Halliburton's — same difference) through the dismal swamp of this vast field of muck, not only in the Persian Gulf but in the Gulf of Mexico".
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
More Smells Emerge from Cheney's Stalls
"Another attempt by the Bush regime to throw investigators off the scent is collapsing. This oil-for-slush part of the ever-widening scandal hits U.S. CEO Dick Cheney right where he lives: inside Halliburton's bulging vault.
The press isn't fully onto the scope of this overall, monumental scandal yet, reporting bits and pieces but not tying them together. Like last year's tsunami and this year's Indo-Pak quake, it's so big that putting a name to it is difficult. Maybe we ought to just call it Profligate, in honor of the wastrels of lives and money who are running our constitutional democracy into the ground.
To be fully informed on the oil-for-slush segment of the scandal — I've used that phrase to describe a narrower part of the Iraq "reconstruction" skullduggery — you have to rely on such watchdogs as Halliburton Watch, which thoroughly charts our country's progress (or Halliburton's — same difference) through the dismal swamp of this vast field of muck, not only in the Persian Gulf but in the Gulf of Mexico".
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