Prescott Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton (by BigBadJohnny)

Prescott Bush

Good Morning, Blogger Party!
I have been greeted with a wave a skepticism in response to my recent articles tying the Bush administration to Halliburton, and a possible conflict of interest. In response to the wave, this:
We all are aware of the extensive damage hat was done to Baghdad in the early days of the war. Bush thought the war wold be short-lived, he expected a quick "mission accomplished". Instead, the war has dragged on for years. The loss of life is incomprehensible. We have killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, trying to democratize them. We have made enemies of the entire Muslim world.
Bush chose Halliburton, and its associated companies, to rebuild Iraq.
Bush sought to place DuBai in charge of the American Ports; DuBai then would sell out to Halliburton. Most officers, and employee's of DuBai, would still remain after the Halliburton takeover.
Halliburton is now planning to build "temporary detention and processing facilities".
"While thousands of people were celebrating the contribution America's undocumented immigrants make to our economy, and demanding justice and recognition for workers who are denied basic rights, the government was making plans for large-scale detention centers in case of an "emergency influx" of immigrants.
KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary recently reprimanded for gross overcharging in its military contracts in Iraq, won a $385 million contract to build the centers. According to the Halliburton website - www.Halliburton.com - "the contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.""
Vice President Dick Cheney is a former executive officer at Halliburton.
The Bush Family connection to Halliburton goes back three generations.
In 1998, Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries for some $7.7 billion. Prescott Bush was a director at Dresser Industries.
The Nation., NY - Jun 22, 2006
"... Cheney personally negotiated the purchase of Dresser Industries - the deal was closed on a quail-hunting expedition"
"Dresser was a Skull & Bones shop, whose board included Bonesman and presidential father and grandfather Prescott Bush. Both Roland Harriman and Prescott Bush were directors of Union Banking Corp. when it was raided by Federal agents in 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, for its dealings on behalf of Nazi Germany. "
" Documents relating to...seizures were recently uncovered in the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Confirmed by Dutch government sources, they show that Bush shipped tons of strategic resources to the Third Reich as Hitler prepared to invade Poland."

This is a well documented conflict of interest, and should be brought to the attention of the public.