~Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity
Clash With Leahy About Halliburton
Washington Post, June 25, 2004

"Central to the Pentagon's post-Cold War strategy is
outsourcing nonmilitary tasks to private contractors. One of
the chief architects of this plan was Dick Cheney, defense
secretary for the first President Bush. Briody argues that
with Cheney now vice-president and Halliburton awarded a
huge no-bid contract to reconstruct Iraq's oil fields,
public outrage has grown. As the controversy simmers, Briody
raises an important question: with Americans and Iraqis
dying by the day, have military matters become so efficient
and profitable for companies like Halliburton that war
itself is easier to wage?"

~Publishers Weekly