Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $15,661
19%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $539 from reaching 20%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: logcap

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • The Halliburton smear (RATS come unglued)

    09/19/2003 7:39:08 AM PDT · by Phantom Lord · 13 replies · 282+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | 09/18/03 | Rich Lowry
    The Halliburton smear The Democrats have discovered the enemy in the ongoing Iraq war. And it is Halliburton. Nothing quite so angers Democrats about the current situation in Iraq than that Halliburton is making money there. Dennis Kucinich, the out-to-lunch leftist who sounds ever more mainstream given the leftward drift of the rest of the Democratic field, wants the United Nations in Iraq so there will be "no more Halliburton sweetheart deals." Bob Graham huffs, "I will not support a dime to protect the profits of Halliburton in Iraq." John Edwards vows "to stop this president from giving billions of...
  • Halliburton: The Bush/Iraq Scandal that Wasn’t: The president’s critics come up empty

    07/09/2003 8:53:21 PM PDT · by Utah Girl · 9 replies · 493+ views
    NRO ^ | 7/9/2003 | Byron York
    On March 24, Halliburton, the giant energy-services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, announced that a subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, had signed a contract with the Army Corps of Engineers to put out oil fires in Iraq, as well as to evaluate and repair the Iraqi oil infrastructure. The announcement set off an angry reaction in some circles on Capitol Hill. On March 26, California Democratic representative Henry Waxman wrote a letter to the Corps demanding to know why the contract was signed "without any competition or even notice to Congress." On April 8, Waxman, joined by...