By portraying bogus intelligence as fact and by inventing a relationship
between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Cheney, Bush (& Rumsfeld) led the
charge into Iraq.
Since then Cheney's company Halliburton has gotten over 10 billion dollars
in contracts from the Iraq war despite the fact that audits have shown they
have repeatedly stolen and overcharged the US government and even instituted
accounting methods designed to make funds disappear...
The Carlyle Group is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by
former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations. Carlyle could lay
claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Carlyle's
profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Currently,
Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/111406R.shtml
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