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Halliburton’s “Gouging”: What Really Happened
National Review Online ^
| December 19, 2003
| Byron York
Posted on 12/19/2003 2:50:40 PM PST by Map Kernow
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Always trust your first instinct. And my first instinct was that this "Halliburton war profiteering" story would not pan out.
To: Map Kernow
But the damage has been done. CBS ran this story with the "gouging" spin a couple of nights ago, and I would be amazed if they revisited the story with a retraction.
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posted on
12/19/2003 2:53:21 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Map Kernow
uh...Headline should read..."VP Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton....."
Sheesh...let's get it right people!
To: Map Kernow
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posted on
12/19/2003 2:54:39 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Map Kernow
Of course, unlike the "Halliburton is war profiteering" story, this one will be found (if at all) on page 15A, in small print.
Worse yet, again unlike the previous story, it won't make the networks' radio and TV news broadcasts at all.
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posted on
12/19/2003 2:56:17 PM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
To: Map Kernow
I just got an email from a writer for the Seattle P.I. (ultra-liberal), claiming that the press has given Bush a "free-ride." Laughable . . .
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posted on
12/19/2003 2:57:17 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Diogenesis
militants at Associated Press I love that.
To: newgeezer
"Worse yet, again unlike the previous story, it won't make the networks' radio and TV news broadcasts at all."
"This is the CBS Evening News and I'm Dan Rather. Today, Defense Department auditors announced there is no evidence to support Democratic allegations that the Halliburton Corporation engaged in price-gouging on the sale of gasoline in Iraq. Auditors called the allegations of Halliburton "war profiteering" to be unfounded, and that Halliburton's purchasing strategy had in fact saved American taxpayers upwards of $100 million dollars. In other news . . ."
bzzzzzzzzz . . . alarm clock goes off . . . dream ends
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posted on
12/19/2003 3:07:29 PM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: Map Kernow
Halliburton delivered gasoline to Iraq from Kuwait at a price of $2.27 per gallon, while it delivered gas from Turkey for $1.18 per gallon. In a war zone, you're lucky if you get gas, period. I'll wager there are FReepers here that have been on a FTX and ran out of gas, or in a convoy (Track, jeep, deuce and half), and couldn't
find POL. Unfortunately, for hours.
Sheesh, the average gas price of $1.60 is lower than in Kalifornia. It' a war zone for crying out loud!
< /Rant>
5.56mm
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posted on
12/19/2003 3:10:25 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: vbmoneyspender
Haliburton has been doing work for the army since WW II. From the newspaper, one would think that it slid in under some wire.
Just another phony Dem attack. Nothing new!!
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posted on
12/19/2003 3:15:14 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Diogenesis
Henry Waxman and John Dingle! How could anyone print their views as credible. The press was secretive about their source.
Had it been known the story would've been blown off as fiction.
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posted on
12/19/2003 3:41:35 PM PST
by
ChiMark
To: Map Kernow
read later
To: Map Kernow
Byron York is the best of the best alive. They guy should do a Danishh clogdance on his way to the podium to grab his Pulitzer. Fat chance. They'll give another one to Friedman.
BTTT
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posted on
12/19/2003 5:02:47 PM PST
by
sarasmom
(Message to the DOD : Very good , troops.Carry on. IN MY NAME)
To: M Kehoe
In a war zone, you're lucky if you get gas, period. I'll wager there are FReepers here that have been on a FTX and ran out of gas, or in a convoy (Track, jeep, deuce and half), and couldn't find POL. Unfortunately, for hours. Reminds me of that memorable scene in the 1970 movie Patton where an American tank column runs out of gas just as it runs head on into a German Panzer column. People who sit in nice, warm, safe newspaper offices, TV studios and Congressional offices don't have to consider---and maybe never have had to consider---what could happen if a convoy does run out of gas.
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posted on
12/19/2003 5:03:18 PM PST
by
Map Kernow
("A liberal is someone who won't take his own side in a dispute" ---Robert Frost)
To: Map Kernow
Thank you for finding this and posting it.
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posted on
12/19/2003 5:03:52 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(George $orea$$ has owned and controlled the Rats for decades!)
To: Miss Marple; Howlin; BOBTHENAILER; JohnHuang2; Ernest_at_the_Beach; nopardons
More lies by the left wing media get smashed.
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posted on
12/19/2003 5:06:25 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(George $orea$$ has owned and controlled the Rats for decades!)
To: Steve_Seattle
Actually CBS continues to fan the flames
WTOP - a CBS news radio station in DC was running a lead story today about how Halliburton, VP Dick Cheney's former company, has grabbed the only copy of the audit report that was the source of the pricing information and refuses to hand it over. The guy who originally broke the report failed to make a copy. Apparently the very information that triggered this "news event" came from a Halliburton internal audit that nobody on the outside had a right to look at in the first place. Halliburton has suggested that whomever leaked the info may have broken the law by simply reading the report.
CBS radio was spinning this as a scandalous cover-up this afternoon. Far from retraction they're gonna drag as much innuendo out of this as they possibly can.
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posted on
12/19/2003 5:13:38 PM PST
by
cdrw
(Freedom and responsibility are inseparable)
To: Map Kernow
I'm sure molly ivens will now retract all her anti-haliburton hate speech and admit she's a lying drunken sow. Right?
To: ozzymandus
Molly Ivins....UGLY drunken VICIOUS sow....you forgot these worthy adjectives.
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