Dick Cheney - A Winner Indeed

Credited to various... "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."

Figgers that the only one of those that I have stock in is GD... the smallest jump amoungst the war profiteers...

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Or my personal favorite: Torture the numbers long enough and they will tell you what you want to hear.

Ain't that how it always goes. btw if VP is giving 8 mil to charity, I could use some new bike shoes, how about you?

That's pretty much the surest way to make anyone completely disregard what you have to say now and in the future.

To me, "shut the hell up" is a challenge. Here's a whole list of companies that offer services that Halliburton does:

 http://biz.yahoo.com/p/_energy-oilsrv.html

Now you've done it - the BEAST has awoken and he will not slumber again until he has tasted the ripe flesh of a BT transgressor. He will crunch your skull and suck the marrow from your bones as he dances an evil jig on your remains. Damn.

....but to your point: start a company and do what they do? Do you mean war profiteering?

Marmadaddy, don't you recognize the advance debate and argumentative technique as outlined in the Socratic (as in Socrates) style of...oh, wait.  That was the Sopranic (as in The Sopranos) method.  Never mind.

Sopranic method.

Awesome. 

Thank you.  And once again I've managed to involve myself in a debate without actually addressing any of the issues, or expressing an opinion.  I continue to impress.

I'll have to do some research. BUt for arguments sake, say there isn't one company that does everything Hallibuton does. There have got to be plenty of companies that specialize in one of the things they do. So why not hire them? Who says all the contracts have to go to one company? 

Here is another.... Blackwater... several divisions.Training, security and consulting. I was offered a 125K  1 year contract federally tax exempt with them providing security in Iraq a couple of years ago.

Of course you have to come back with your head still on to spend it. I was a Marine scout sniper (STA Platoon) for 6 years and still would not take this deal. No freekin way I'll ever go back to the middle east.

Don't diss marmadaddy. And if you could care less, he'd probably be glad to boot you from the site for not playing nice with the other kids.

 AS far as "complaiining with no follow though", that's a pretty big jump if you're talking about people on this board. You have really no idea what we do when we're not on BT.

And anyway, this is a discussion board, not a call-to-action board.