Just in case there was any doubt as to who is likely to profit from this war, Reuters had the courage to run a story entitled, War could be big business for Halliburton. Halliburton, of course, is the company that was headed by Dick Cheney. Who, for our non-American correspondents, is the Vice President of the United States. All perfectly legal, I'm sure, but I think it stinks.

You won't find anything like that on CNN, of course. Although even that "news" service did report, back in July 2002 about all the shaky and unethical-but-not-quite-illegal business deals engineered by Bush, Cheney, and the other corporate CEO's who fill the upper echelons of our current government. Seemed like things were about to hit the fan back then...until somebody in the White House had the bright idea to start making noise about Weapons of Mass Distraction. And we sure got distracted, didn't we?

Aloha,
Mark