Bobert's post of 13 Nov 06 - 07:56 PM, wonders about a "sanitized" web site that shows that current US Vice-President Dick Cheney has nothing to do with the Halliburton Organisation. Well Bobert, that would not come as any shock to any rational human being as the current date is 14th November 2006 and Dick Cheney cut all ties with Halliburton to run for Office in some time in 1999.

"Of course, the mighty Teribus will argue that the US government, under Bill Clinton mind you, entered into some kind of open ended contract with Helliburton in '98 that forsaw Cheney's invasion orders of Iraqmire and therefore the contracts were perfectly above board???"

No arguement Bobert, no arguement at all. The fact that Halliburton were awarded a competitively bid five year Frame Agreement Contract in 1998 during the Clinton Administrations second term in office is undeniable (Year 1 of the contract ran from 1998 to 1999; Year 2 from 1999 to 2000; Year 3 from 2000 to 2001; Year 4 from 2001 to 2002 and Year 5 from 2002 to 2003), it is a simple matter of record, no arguement at all. The contract scope of work in broad terms was to provide engineering, logistical and support services to the US military on a world-wide basis - No foresight required Bobert, if during that period Bobert, any branch of the US military required any such services, anywhere in the world, it would fall upon Halliburton to provide those services. Oh, and yes Bobert the contracts were perfectly above board.

On a separate subject Bobert quotes deaths in Iraq as being 650,000.

This figure of 650,000 comes from an article in the British Medical Journal, "The Lancet", the numbers arrived at come from batch sampling and extrapolation and the survey has been totally discredited, it suits Bobert's purposes so he believes it to be true. Bobert believing it to be true does not however make it true.
IraqBodyCount, so far the most comprehensive and accurate, but by no means infallable, gives a high figure total of 55,000. The Iraqi Government comes up with potential but unconfirmed estimates of between 100,000 and 150,000.