Originally Posted by sperbonzo

I beleve the the reason that we were forced into going into open conflict with Iraq so quickly was that France, Germany and Russia were very close to closing their deal with Saddam to begin trading in PetroEuros, as opposed to PetroDollars, which would have deeply hurt the US economy.

As the the Haliburton issue, what people seem to ignore is that Halliburton is the ONLY US corp capable of taking on a project of this magnitude. There is no other in the US that has the resources, needed to rebuild an entire country's infrastructure. This is the same reason that Halliburton was also awarded the contracts after we invaded Kosovo under Clinton.