Absolutely awesome article on who is getting rich from the war:

[DuaneBidoux]

(I'll give you one guess who is at the top)

<http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/WhosProfitingFromTheIraqWar.aspx>

[liberal N proud]

1. Top 10

10 companies making the most in Iraq* (millions of dollars)

1.
KBR Inc. (KBR, news, msgs) and Halliburton (HAL)
2003 $2,550
2004 $5,809
2005 $4,505
2006 $4,362
Total $17,226

2.
Veritas Capital Fund
2003 0.7
2004 208
2005 850
2006 386
Total 1,444

3.
Washington Group International (WNG)
2003 111
2004 205
2005 533
2006 82
Total 931

4.
Environmental Chemical
2003 0
2004 192
2005 360
2006 326
Total 878

5.
International American Products
2003 58
2004 283
2005 310
2006 108
Total 759

6.
Fluor (FLR, news, msgs)
2003 116
2004 413
2005 123
2006 105
Total 757

7.
Perini (PCR)
2003 72
2004 312
2005 185
2006 81
Total 650

8.
Parsons
2003 0
2004 248
2005 120
2006 172
Total 540

9.
First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting
2003 0
2004 7
2005 469
2006 24
Total 500

10.
L-3 Communications (LLL)
2003 1
2004 9
2005 148
2006 201
Total 359

*Goods and services contracted specifically for Iraq. Source: Eagle Eye

Then there are the hidden winners:
U.S. Department of Defense contracts* (billions of dollars)
1
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
$105.7
2
Boeing (BA, news, msgs)
$89.4

3
Northrop Grumman (NOC)
$ 61.8

4
General Dynamics (GD)
$ 45.8

5
Raytheon (RTN)
$ 42.5

6
KBR Inc. (KBR)
$ 24.2

7
United Technologies (UTX)
$ 22.5

Total defense contracts
$ 1,174.70 (Billion)

[Mnemosyne]

2. I love how $17 billion ends up as $17,226 millions of

dollars, sounds as if less has been stolen by them.

$1.4 billion dollars becomes $1,440 million dollars.

Minds have been trained to notice the (millions of dollars) qualifier rather than the actual amounts. It's all smoke and mirrors and magic! It's all in the staging and the script with them.

The magic is watching the trick they pull and make our country's money disappear. I am in shock and awe that they got away with it and our reps give them more money to not account for, again.



I feel much less ripped off as a taxpayer when I see the figures listed this way.

:)

[Hawkowl]

29. It's European

The British and other Europeans phrase billions as thousands of millions. They never use the word billion.

[Mnemosyne]

30. Thanks. Still here it is used to mislead, million sounds so much less

to the average American than billions.

[FreakinDJ]

3. It's no surprise that KBR Inc. , a division of Halliburton

Top 100 Defense Contractors

http://www.govexec.com/features/0807-15/0807-15s3s1.htm

[lostnfound]

4. Too bad this isn't on the front page of every newspaper. nt

[Bitwit1234]

5. I read an article about two years ago

about DynCorp....they were one of the biggest contributers to the bush campaign funds. And one more outrageous thing.

They were under investigation for child sexual abuse. The company, to keep their CEO's and employees happy bought them child sex slaves in Iraq. I know they were being investigated because they had a picture of about an 8 year old girl following being a six foot 300 pound slob and he was trying to hide.

[Duppers]

9. Cynthia McKinney grilled Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers on Dyncorp scandal.

Chicago Tribune that Halliburton subsidiary KBR and Dyncorp lobbyists are working in tandem with the Pentagon to stall legislation that would specifically ban trafficking in humans for forced labor and prostitution by U.S. contractors.

On March 11th 2005, Representative Cynthia McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.

"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, Dyncorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, Dyncorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"

The response and McKinney's comeback was as follows.

Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question."



McKinney: "Well how do you explain the fact that Dyncorp and its successor companies have received and continue to receive government contracts?"

more....

http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2007/030107UN_Sex.htm

[Duppers]

6. blood money :(

some yrs ago I worked for a broker (short-term job) and learned what and who Halliburton was. Local military personnel brought a lot of it....not surprising, right.
When bush and his whoring media were doing their run-up to the war in '01-'02, I knew if I were to have put all our savings in Haliburton, we'd be 'rich' (by our standards), but I couldn't do it. Just couldn't.
My husband has a co-worked who's doubled $300K in five yrs. investing in these stocks. I'm emailing this list to him with the subject line: Blood Money. :evilfrown: And this man claims to be a christian AND a dem. I want him to know what a hypocrite I think he is.

[illinoisprogressive]

7. why am I not surprised.

[illinoisprogressive]

8. everyone thinks it's about the oil. I've thought it was about the gravy train for

the corporations that bush loved.
They are raping this country for their profits and this is what this war is about.
I'd bet some of the democrats have ties to these corps. and why they diddle about ending it.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

10. I have been trying to connect the dots.

In 1931 Prescott (Bush) became a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. was the main Wall Street connection for German companies and the varied U.S. financial interests of Fritz Thyssen, who had been an early financial backer of the Nazi party until 1938, but by 1939 had fled Germany and was bitterly denouncing Hitler. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, steel, fuel, coal, and U.S. treasury bonds to Germany. These were used to build Hitler's war machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Brothers_Harriman_%26_Co.

I have been trying to find a reliable source which connects the "Brown" in Kellogg Brown & Root to the Bush's Brown Brothers Harriman.

I found this from a message board, the poster left a link that no longer works but at the time; when the link more than likely worked, no one protested her findings.

snip...

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/11/news/fortu....reut/index.htm

Look at those numbers again. Halliburton has billed the Pentagon $4.18 billion, and 43% is being contested. Even more interesting is the mention of Brown & Root. Let's understand who Brown and Root is. This is from an article that dealt with the record of Prescott Bush, but note the last sentence:

Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman

...end

If Bush’s family is the “Brown” in KBR...Than the Bushes are more connected to Halliburton than Cheney is.

[leveymg]

14. It's rather a large circle, but here's the relationship:

In 1928, Harriman purchased Dresser Manufacturing, an oil service company which later became Dresser Industries. Dresser Industries was bought by Halliburton in 1998, and at that time the Kellogg subsidiary of Dresser became part of Brown and Root. Brown and Root itself had been bought by Halliburton in 1962. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresser_Industries

BTW: Thyssen was imprisoned by the Allies as a war criminal for several years. He wasn't a principled critic of the Nazism, as Wiki appears to make him out to be.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

16. So now I under stand...

It's the "Harriman"(only) part of Brown Brothers Harriman that is connected to KBR.

Thanks for clearing that up...but I have a gut feeling that the Bushes are inbedded with Harriman and they're one of the same. But my gut feeling proves nothing.

[leveymg]

19. Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker were Harriman stooges

Today, they'd be called, "economic hitmen." Read the book by that title. Much recommended.

Also, GHW Bush was given a cushy job with Dresser Industries in Midland Texas during the late 1940s. The Senators son and his family were flown down there in a private corporate airplane. Very upper-upper in those days.

[Baby Snooks]

22. Actually the Harrimans were the stooges...

Most of the financial transactions were made through Union Banking Corporation which was seized by the US government in 1942. Brown Brothers Harriman was never accused under the Trading with the Enemy Act. But UBC was. Averell Harriman was not connected to UBC and Roland Harriman denied knowledge of the Nazi connections, particularly the money laundering, with Fritz Thyssen. UBC and its assets were released in 1953 and the Bushes profited when it was dissolved as a corporation not long after.

http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm

The original Harriman association with Fritz Thyssen preceded the association with Prescott Bush and preceded the rise of the Nazi Party. It was and is a question mark with regard to both Harrimans. Particularly Averell. Dead men tell no tales. Or women. And the only who might have told tales as George W Bush rose to power was Pamela Harriman. Regardless of who knew what, without doubt Prescott Bush and his father Samuel Bush and his father-in-law Herbert Walker laid the foundation for what would later become known as the military-industrial complex. Prescott Bush also apparently supported an idea to overthrow our own government in 1933 and replace it with a Mussolini-Hitler styled fascist state. That was never really investigated. But then most of what the Bushes have been involved in has never really been investigated.

[Baby Snooks]

23. What the Harrimans probably were guilty of...

More than likely what the Harrimans were guilty of in terms of their financial involvement with Thyssen, and with Hitler and the Nazi Party through Thyssen, was anti-Semitism but then most Americans were guilty of it as well. The anti-Semitism of America was merely part of the rampant racism imbedded in the American psyche at the time. We simply did not care. The Jews simply did not matter. We condemn it now. We turned our head to it then. Some of us, unfortunately, still do.

[Baby Snooks]

15. The Bushes are not the Browns...

Brown & Root was founded by George and Herman Brown with money they borrowed from their brother-in-law Dan Root who was the Root in Brown & Root. After Herman Brown died in 1962, George Brown sold Brown & Root to Halliburton but remained head of Brown & Root and it was his connection to LBJ that resulted in the contracts Halliburton and Brown & Root obtained during the Vietnam War. Part of the profit from the sale of Brown & Root established the Brown Foundation which is a philanthropic foundation in Houston with assets of around $1 billion which initially came from Halliburton. One of the daughters of George Brown is a large contributor to Democrats and Democratic causes. But some question the money itself and where it came from. It came from Halliburton. It was and is Democratic money and so while Halliburton may be heavily entrenched within the Republican Party at this point, during the Vietnam war it was heavily entrenched within the Democratic Party. The term blood money comes to mind. And in the case of Halliburton the blood money is to be found in both parties.

There is no connection to the Bushes except for Dresser Industries which became part of Kellogg-Brown & Root in 1999.

As for the Harrimans, unless I am mistaken it was always maintained that neither Averell nor Roland Harriman knew what was really being funded by Prescott Bush and they didn't care simply because they were only interested in the income from the investments and were not as directly involved in the business of the bank as some assumed. Pamela Harriman had an affair with Averell Harriman during World War II and later married him and they became involved with the Democratic Party in the 1980s with fundraising and networking and were regarded by some as the "final say" in the Democratic Party. She initially wanted Al Gore to run for president and it was a Democratic "kingmaker" from Texas named Bob Strauss who convinced her that Clinton would be the better choice in 1992. Bob Strauss was a Democrat but he was also good friends with George HW Bush who of course lost to Clinton in 1992. Texas has been intertwined with the presidential elections since 1980. And the intertwining is between both Republicans and Democrats. And sometimes curiously so as in the case of Bob Strauss.

Whatever Pamela Harriman knew about the Bushes she kept to herself although of course some wonder if she was murdered to make sure she kept it to herself.

One of the accusations made by the US government against Brown Brothers Harriman was that it had laundered money for Fritz Thyssen when Hitler attempted to seize the Thyssen assets.

There is also the matter of Riggs Bank which laundered money for Pinochet which is made more interesting by the fact that Riggs Bank had bought a private bank owned by Jonathan Bush, George HW Bush's cousin, about the time it began laundering the money for Pinochet. So you have that aspect of the Bushes, money laundering, that adds to the conspiracy theories about them. Similar accusations of money laundering were made about them with regard to the BCCI bank scandal. The real scandal of Riggs Bank is the matter of an account that was used by Princess Haifa, whose husband Prince Bandar was the Saudi ambassador, to funnel money to several of the 9/11 hijackers in California at one point. After 22 years Prince Bandar and Princess Haifa were suddenly called back to Saudi Arabia. On urgent family business. And of course the Riggs Bank investigation was dropped.

There are Bush connections to most everything. Just not to Halliburton.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

17. A sincere thank you for the time you took to explain this to me.

Wow, what a telling post. So, when Kennedy was murdered, LBJ was then able to give contracts to Halliburton and Brown & Root. Wow, this really gives a motive to the thugs we have in the White House now to kill JFK then.

Then we have Papa Bush's (oil-tycoon) buddy Hinckley’s son trying to kill Reagan which would have turned Papa Bush into an instant president. ...Why people watch soap operas -I don't know, this is all so interesting (and scary).

What bothers me is the "kingmaker"/Bush-friend from Texas, Bob Strauss turning Clinton into our king. ...And now Hillary is being “crowned” by our corporate owned media.

We have to get our senators and congress-people to start paying attention and care about the take over of our government. So many of them seem to be in it for the perks, biggest of all, the chance to become a lobbyist. ...Or give speeches for big bucks.

Thanks again,
Kathy

[Baby Snooks]

21. The Bush Connections

The Bushes may not be getting rich from Halliburton but they definitely are pulling in the big bucks from their various corporate connections.

http://www.spectrezine.org/NorthAmerica/wokusch3.htm

I believe Marvin Bush is also connected to First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting and was on their board of directors at one time.

Note the number of these corporations that are "offshore" and not only pay no taxes but also may not come under the full scrutiny of the very laws the Bushes wanted enacted to "protect" us from terrorists and those who support terrorists. The Carlyle Group as I recall has only been forced to comply with very limited disclosure under the banking laws along with other similar "private" banking and investment companies. That was one of the problems with Riggs Bank as well as I recall.

Follow the money trail? You are likely to hit dead-ends on the Bush money trail.

[DemReadingDU]

25. very interesting, afternoon kick

[InternalDialogue]

20. Exactly -- channeling public money into private hands by the truckload

Modus operandi for this administration -- enrich the elite by siphoning survival funds from the average American.

[leveymg]

11. Gotta love these sidebar stories:

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[knitter4democracy]

24. I saw that, too.

All of them scary. *shudder*

[AX10]

12. Well, I'm no where on that list.

Nor is anyone else around here, or the other 99.999% of the population.

[calimary]

13. Another excellent resource!

Bookmarked.

Thanks for posting this, Duane!

[flamin lib]

18. Hmmm, whoda' thought? nt

[mntleo2]

26. Geez

...there was a reason that it was illegal to profit from war until Greedhead Cheney got his filthy hands into that steaming odoriferous pot of dirty money. He and his friends profit from death and misery and the best consolation I have is that they have to enclave themselves off into gated communities and don't dare come out for fear of getting pelted with rotten tomatoes anywhere they go. May they rot in their "velvet prisons" because there is nothing like freely going about your life and meeting people who genuinely smile at you instead if those cold insincere twists of the mouth! I would personally spit on the ground in front of him if I were to ever see him and his ilk to show my disgust. They make me weep for their greed and the wars they make so they can put ever more into their greedy little hands, but I also know most people are disgusted and detest the sight of that. I get pleasure from this knowledge, I hate to say it.

Freaking bastards!

Cat In Seattle

[jazzjunkysue]

27. No.s 1, 3, 6, 7, and 10 are news organizations. That's the point.

They want any news that helps keep americans lining their pockets.

Another example of the liberal media bias.

[Poll_Blind]

28. Nice! Thank you for posting this! n/t

PB