WTF Is It Now?!?

Keeping it in the family
The Bush Cartel Crime Family

The BFEE United States and Britain will try again today to get suckers countries to help with security in Iraq, hoping that the devastating bomb attack against the United Nations would draw wider support for Halliburton's U.S. efforts in Baghdad.

The Bushies are preparing a new Security Council resolution that would urge other nations to send troops and aid to secure Iraq. The new resolution would allow the American military to maintain control over any international forces.

Along with the debate over troops, United Nations officials say wealthy countries in a position to provide assistance to Iraq are also reluctant to contribute without more authority being given to the United Nations.

"Who do we write the checks to, Halliburton? I don't bloody think so," said an envoy from a country under pressure to make a large contribution.

And from an editorial in the Toledo Blade:

Consider the central role of private U.S. firms such as Halliburton, Bechtel, and at least eight other companies in carrying out the contracts that absorb the bulk of the $4 billion per month cost to the U.S. taxpayer of America’s involvement there. One has to wonder how much channeling that money to those firms influences the administration’s decision to keep other potential international partners out.

U.S. requests to the Dominican Republic, Mongolia, and the Philippines, for example, are pending. U.S. firms with big contracts in Iraq, awarded by the U.S. government without competitive bidding, are flourishing.

Halliburton, Vice President Cheney’s former firm, showed a 2003 second-quarter profit of $26 million, as opposed to a 2002 second-quarter loss of $498 million, a major turnaround. Bechtel was awarded a $680 million contract.

If that evolution of the problem of Iraq is being delayed to increase the profits of Halliburton, Bechtel, and other U.S. companies, there is definitely something wrong. If those companies and their leaders are playing a role in campaign financing, the whole thing starts to get really smelly.