Posted on 11/09/2004 4:29:12 PM PST by Ahriman
The White House's Halliburton Honeymoon is already history. Only two days after President Bush declared victory in his quest for a second term, the company once run by Vice President Cheney dropped a political bomb. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, the oil services company said that the Justice Department expanded its investigation into Halliburton, that government probes have found that bribes may have been made in Nigeria and that A. Jack Stanley, a former senior executive, may have been involved. The latest news about alleged shenanigans at Halliburton, some of which may have occurred on Cheney's watch, serves as a timely warning for the Bush administration: Second terms are often beset by scandal. President Bill Clinton was impeached in the Monica S. Lewinsky affair. President Ronald Reagan endured the Iran-contra scandal. And President Richard M. Nixon had Watergate. Bush could defy the second-term curse, of course. And, with Congress in friendly hands and with the demise of the independent counsel statute, he has advantages his predecessors did not. But there are several investigations and simmering controversies that were held off until after the election -- and that could present trouble for the president as they resurface.
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Troll much?
"bribes may have been made in Nigeria"????????
What? I am shocked, SHOCKED!! to hear of bribery in the honest, and progressive country of Nigeria!!
Big deal. Bribes are SOP on the whole African continent.
Enough already, this is a bogus non-issue. Nice try.
They're BAAAAAAAA---AAAAACK!!!!!!
Better tread light, though, this could have some surprises for the Dems. Clinton no-bids?
What is wrong with posting the article. It is always good to know what is out there. Not every negative piece of news is from a troll.
Haven't you gotten the memo? It's not "Halliburton! Halliburton! Halliburton!" anymore. It's "Diebold! Diebold! Diebold!"
There's a new corperate boogeyman in town. Get with the program, trollio.
Take a look at his other greatest hits... Noam Chomsky et al...
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Every piece of negative news from someone just signed up in the last two weeks is, in fact, from a troll.
Time for the ZOT machine!
(Do I hear the kitties and see the lightning?)
What ever happened to that Bunny Greenpeace pre-election Halliburton bombshell? Get any traction?
Blah blah.
And this has what to do with Bush and moving America forward?
Here is his latest hit:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275850/posts
Well, disappearing instead of staying to discuss is a large clue.
Nothing better to do this evening then troll for the RATS?
TROLL-B-GONE
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I think the public is anxiously awaiting more Bush-bashing from the mainstream media. What we need after this is a big expose' from CBS News. And then maybe an article in the New York Times about how Bush, while in grammar school, once dipped a girl's pigtails in the inkwell.