After our divorce my wifes brother gave her a job on an Alaskan project as an “on site timekeeper”, whatever the hell that is. Salary was a whopping 10 grand a week, and everything was furnished, food, clothing, cigarettes and booze.

KBR is primarily construction company that has diversified into other profitable ventures presented through thier mother company. I have actually worked for them as an engeneer. (Don’t need a lecture about those pricks…especially when it comes to there being more to it. No offense.)

Halliburton has been in the “portin business”, as you put it, since they aquired Kellog Brown and Root in the 1990s. KBR is a logistics support company. They move/process cargo in ports and air terminals all over the world (predominantly for the DoD). They got their start as a trucking company but have since branched out into air and maritime freight as well. Although I agree with you that this is about money, there is more to it. Someone above mentioned what this is really about (above and beyond money). It’s about giving Congressional Republicans a way to distance themselves from the President without it hurting the GOP in any real tangible way. If Bush’s cronies and buddies make a buttload of money in the process, well, that’s just icing on the cake.

I think, it was Wolfe Blitzer, on CNN, last night, after his return from Dubai, who said DP World executives were almost arrogant, in their belief, the deal will go forward.

It probably will…with the assistance of an American company. That would be who?

Tracy- Could you please give me brief overview of what the republican “agenda” is? Please include how the Bush admn. is following that “agenda”.

As far as Nader is concerned. He didn’t effect Kerry’s race. He definitely SANK Gore’s. If you think that was a good thing, well, welcome to the last 6 years of bushland and thank you very much for your holier than though opinions. Honestly, as much as I like Nader, I couldn’t vote for him. Government would’ve imploded just like Jesse Ventura’s Montana experiment. In the US, government is supposed to be a joint affair with all the groups cajolling and pushing each other. No group would’ve listened to Nader let alone let him lead them anywhere. So, my opionon of Nader is significantly less than it was prior to ‘00 because he let his ego get in the way of our lives.

Now, unfortunately with bushco’s government, both the counterbalancing parties (House and Senate) have abandoned their rolls and are jsut rubber stamps to the Executive. Dumb shits.

The idea that someone like you, who(m?) I assume is an otherwise stand-up person, would support a corrupt conservative over even a “whacko” liberal shows how bent out of shape our ethics have become in mainstream poilitical society. I guess lying about an extramarital affair under oath (even though it had NOTHING to do with the actual investigation, a land deal) is impeachable but lying to the American people and sending thousands of Americans to their deaths and spending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in an effort that will, in the end, only serve Iran, is somehow OK because a liberal didn’t do it.

#11″I can’t stand that this President has so much influence over Congress.
They are seperate for a reason.

I am so incredibly sick of King George “pitching a fit” and getting his way.
When are we going to take a stand against this moron?

Comment by trueblue — March 8, 2006 @ 7:29 pm”

It’s because liberalism, which gave us so many real improvements in the average person’s every day life, has been successfully branded as bad. This has been so successful that the Republicans were willing to sell their souls and trust George W. Bush and give him powers no president was ever meant to have. This is almost an article of faith with them. Bush has proven several times over to his own Party (and dozens of times to those who aren’t in his Party) that he doesn’t have the capacity or character to deserve that faith, but conservatives are blindly obedient to him as a person, as an idol.

They worship Bush as they worship their God. They follow him more than Jesus, more than the Constitution. They defend him, make excuses for him, attack others for him, and idolize him.

“NO! tell the Dems to HAVE a clear agenda people can follow and stop being pussies!”

That would require them to run on their ideological
convictions and a LIBERAL agenda. If they were to follow that direction they would lose even more seats in the U.S. House and Senate.

8. The MAJORITY of American people wern’t going to vote for a far left liberal wacko like Kucinich.

This is nothing more than a ROVIAN deal to try and make the pukes seem the only people on earth who can provide us with security.

Among other issues, PNAC HATES labor unions in part because united people scares the crap out of them. KBR is the biggest union busting contractor on the planet- bar none.

Sometimes a Conspiracy Theory can be a Theory of Gravity.

Goper’s Lament

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that “crazy aunt” he always talked about that was locked in the basement is the problem. I mean, the Republicans let her out, cut her hair, dressed her up as Bush’s vice president. Next thing you know they’ll be giving her a gun to shoot.

http://www.halliburton.com/
http://www.wgint.com/about_us.html

I’m thinking that Halliburton wants to diversify and get into the portin’ business (bid-less). The ports were a major concern before the Dubai “scam”. I’m sure lots of capital is/was targeted for port security and Halliburton wants a piece of it-if not all. Follow the money.

The Liberals exist to build and safeguard a fair,free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity

Preamble to the Federal Constitution

R2K