Originally Posted by loquitur

This idea that the Iraq war was launched for the purpose of enriching Halliburton is batty, Will. That's not a statement of support for the war on my part - whether the war was justified is a separate issue that is OT here - but there was plenty enough going on vis-a-vis Iraq that making KBR the center of analysis is the tail wagging the dog. You're building in an awful lot of assumptions to make that statement. Plus, unless I'm going senile, I seem to remember Cheney unloaded all his HAL stock before the war. I might be wrong.