Vast right-wing conspiracy.(Devils in the Details)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, October, 2003
Over the summer, the ongoing conflict in Iraq brought mostly bad news. The executives at Halliburton and Bechtel, however, must be all smiles: The Washington Post reported in late August that Halliburton received even more money on a no-bid basis than had previously been thought. Contracts worth $1.7 billion are set to line the corporation's pockets, and hundreds of millions more are on the way.
This is a very healthy return on the approximately $670,000 company officials donated to Republicans in the last election cycle. Halliburton and the Bush administration, of course, go way ...
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