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Old 05-02-2007, 09:50 AM   #24 (permalink)
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ace.....you're reaching here llke you did when you went after Pelosi and the minmium wage bill that supposedly had an exclusion for a company headquartered in her district: (link)

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I tried looking for the bill with the exclusion, I could not find it. Anyone have a link? (you couldnt find it because there was no exclusion)

This is hypocracy on many levels. Not only is Pelosi protecting big business in her backyard at the expense of what they call a living wage for working people, the Democrats had to pay their union dues. Unions are the primary backers of minimum wage increases. On top of that Pelosi is going to stand up in her $20,000 pearls and proclaim how hard she is working to reduce the gap between the haves and the have nots.
ace...you need facts, not unproven inuendo from right wing sources.

Did Cheney have any lnflluence in the awarding of Iraq reconstruction to Halliburton? He said "absolutely not"
..."as Vice President, I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the [Army] Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government."
What does the paper trail say?
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Both he and the company say they have no ongoing connections. But TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official—whose name was blacked out by the Pentagon—that raises questions about Cheney's arm's-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the e-mail says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. The e-mail says Douglas Feith, a high-ranking Pentagon hawk, got the "authority to execute RIO," or Restore Iraqi Oil, from his boss, who is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. RIO is one of several large contracts the U.S. awarded to Halliburton last year.

The e-mail says Feith approved arrangements for the contract "contingent on informing WH [White House] tomorrow. We anticipate no issues since action has been coordinated w VP's [Vice President's] office." Three days later, the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton the contract, without seeking other bids. TIME located the e-mail among documents provided by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...644111,00.html
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