Dick cheney war profiteer

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AP In the wake of a war of words where former Vice President Dick Cheney expressed a concern there's an "increasing strain of isolationism" among the Republicans considering entering the presidential race, Mother Jones' David Corn unearthed vintage footage of one of the likely GOP White House hopefuls, Sen. Rand Paul, accusing Cheney of supporting the Iraq War to make money. In the clip, which was filmed in shortly before Paul announced his Senate campaign, Paul said Cheney initially thought invading Iraq would be a bad idea, but changed his mind after he became CEO of Halliburton in and was in a position to profit from defense contracts. Paul began by saying there was a "great YouTube of Dick Cheney in " where he described being against a potential invasion of Iraq. He goes on and on for five minutes—Dick Cheney saying it would be a bad idea," Paul said. Dick Cheney then goes to work for Halliburton. Makes hundreds of millions of dollars—Their CEO.

Young reports: "Ten contractors received 52 percent of the funds, according to an analysis by the Financial Times that was published Tuesday. The No. Houston-based energy-focused engineering and construction firm KBR, Inc. Dick Cheney's Halliburton made billions of dollars from the Iraq war.

W wanted to show the world that he could go Daddy one better. Cheney wanted to be very, very rich. The accounting of the financial cost of the nearly decade-long Iraq War will go on for years, but a recent analysis has shed light on the companies that made money off the war by providing support services as the privatization of what were former U. Ten contractors received 52 percent of the funds, according to an analysis by the Financial Times that was published Tuesday. Houston-based energy-focused engineering and construction firm KBR, Inc.