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It's been this way for a while (forever?) in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses p
by ihm 6y ago
It's been this way for a while (forever?) in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses partly so that he could give his company Halliburton a $7 billion dollar no-bid contract.
- papito 6y agoThat's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open. Right now that's not happening. Why? Because there is no money in it. You can't get a kickback from a school, you can't get a lobbying gig, you can't get a board seat. There is nothing to gain.
- tripzilch 6y ago> > in the US... Dick Cheney helped start a war (that killed something like 500,000 people) on knowingly false pretenses > That's pretty standard corruption. But the Bush administration, as rotten as it was, would at least provide schools with resources to open. By what measure is killing half a million people, standard corruption? (and you didn't really mean to say that's okay when they would at least provide schools with resources to open ... did you?)
- valuearb 6y agoHe could get Halliburton billion dollar contracts without a war. Claiming that was a reason for the war trivializes the actual thought process that led to it.