smells like teensick spirit

Bush bombards Afghanistan, and takes over the oil pipeline management.
contracts awarded to Halliburton.

Bush 'liberates' Iraq, and starts reconstructing what he's blown up.
contracts awarded to Halliburton.

Bush visits New Orleans, and initiates rebuilding of the city and state.
contracts awarded to.. Halliburton.

George Bush's running mate Dick Cheney once led Halliburton, and despite his claims that he has cut off all his ties with it, he receives deferred compensation from Halliburton under an arrangement he made in 1998, and also retains stock options. for a government that claims to be democratic and transparent and all that jazz, isn't that just glaringly wrong?!