"There’s no more pungent symbol of the corrupt nature of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq than, the-based oil services conglomerate, which has made billions from the war even in the face of charges of massive, shoddy work, official bribery and political influence-peddling. The remarkable thing is that Halliburton’s looting of Iraq and the happened in broad daylight, right under the nose of the press, the Democrats and Michael Moore, who made Dick Cheney’s former company the bete noir of his film “9/11.” Nothing deterred the company from capitalizing on the war it helped orchestrate."
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