But it's much easier to spit and scream "HATEBUSHCHENEYHALLIBURTONEVIL, then to actually do the research and think.
I don't hate Bush or Cheney. I actually think they have done fairly well these late 8 years on security issues and the economy.
That's one thing we agree upon.
My statement about Halliburton is they simply had little more than what they purchased with these blank cheques. My point is, maybe they had some oil rigging equipment, but say they had no food service people. You could hire McDonalds and they would be experts in food service but not in oil rigs, so they would purchase oil riggers with their blank cheque. Effectively accomplishing the same job.
Uhhh, they did and do have Food Service people. That was one of the reason's that Clinton keep them on in the Balkans as opposed to giving the contract to Dyncorp (the lowest bidder) Oh, and keep in mind that Cheney didn't become CEO of Halliburton until 1995.
The first LOGCAP was awarded in 1992, as the first Bush administration (including then-Secretary of Defense Cheney) was leaving office. Four companies competed, and the winner was Brown & Root, as it was known at the time (Halliburton changed the name to Kellogg Brown & Root after an acquisition in 1998). The multi-year contract was in effect during much of the Clinton administration. During those years, Brown & Root did extensive work for the Army under the LOGCAP contract in Haiti, Somalia, and Bosnia; contract workers built base camps and provided troops with electrical power, food, and other necessities.
In 1997, when LOGCAP was again put up for bid, Halliburton/Brown & Root lost the competition to another contractor, Dyncorp. But the Clinton Defense Department, rather than switch from Halliburton to Dyncorp, elected to award a separate, sole-source contract to Halliburton/Brown & Root to continue its work in the Balkans. 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. The Army's sole-source Bosnia contract with Brown & Root lasted until 1999. At that time, the Clinton Defense Department conducted full-scale competitive bidding for a new contract. The winner was . . . Halliburton/Brown & Root. The company continued its work in Bosnia uninterrupted.
In any event, unlike yourself, I have a real job where people from all over the world contact me for my ideas and don't argue. I don't need to go floating around the internet screaming about how I am right. Therefore, as I often do, I resign from this thread. You can go on and post your love letters to Halliburton. I shan't be reading them.
Yep, until my kidney's failed and I to undergo a year of Chemo, (which I just finished), I was the Logistics Manger for a paint can manufacturing company with customers all over the US and Canada, prior to that I was Operations Manager for a company that imported from all over the world with our three largest customers being Wal-mart, Target, and K-mart. Well prior to that I was an Military Police Officer (Platoon Leader, Staff Officer and Company Commander) in the US Army and US Army Reserve. There's a HUGE difference between shipping 5-14 truckloads of crap to various state-of-the-art Wal-mart distribution centers on any given day and trying to figure out how to get a convoy of beans and bullets across a river without a bridge and under enemy fire to a unit that is engaged in combat and may or may not be there when you get there.
Please let me know which companies come to you for ideas, because if they look to someone as closed minded as you and can't think for themselves, I wish to divest myself of any holdings I may have of those companies in either my portfolio or 401(k)'s.