Within in two days after our first troops were killed, Halliburton was at work in the Iraqi oil fields.

I don't want another one that is just like the two that left four years ago. 


Romney is shady, secretive and manipulative. 


Hello?


Romney has a character and credibility problem and that isn't going to change.


Let's add, ruthlessness to the adjectives while I'm at it.


...Given all the taxpayer money (click title to entry - thank you) involved, you might think the process for awarding those contracts would be open and competitive. 

But, as 60 Minutes reported last spring, the earliest contracts were given to a few favored companies. And some of the biggest winners in the sweepstakes to rebuild Iraq have one thing in common: lots of very close friends in very high places. Correspondent Steve Kroft reports.


One is Halliburton, the Houston-based energy services and construction giant whose former CEO, Dick Cheney, is now vice president of the United States. 

Even before the first shots were fired in Iraq, the Pentagon had secretly awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root a two-year, no-bid contract to put out oil well fires and to handle other unspecified duties involving war damage to the country's petroleum industry. It is worth up to $7 billion....