Talk:Halliburton

Halliburton's relationship with Bechtel, Brown and Root, former CIA director John McCone, the development of Corpus Christi Naval Station during the New Deal and the rise of Lyndon Johnson as Congressman, Senator, and President are all part of the history of Halliburton, not to mention America being energy Iindependent today. This page should not be just a left wing communist attack page on Dick Cheney.

James Baker (DOS) and former Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski are also big players in Halliburton's past. RobS^{Deep Six the Deep State!} 17:52, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

But Baker is a self-serving globalist, right? I think there is some valid criticism to how much Cheney profited from Halliburton, and how much Halliburton profited from the Iraq War. I'm not saying Cheney completely sold out, but when someone gets $35M in just one year then it can influence anyone's point of view.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 20:44, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

New Deal gave freshman Congressman Lyndon Johnson a $4 billion boondoggle to build Corpus Christi Naval Station; John McCone of Halliburton built the project. 20 years later JFK appointed McCone as Allen Dullas replacement as CIA director after the Bay of Pigs, and LBJ's addiction to deficit spending after 1941 made him Senate Democrat Leader, President, and fueled his War on Poverty and Vietnam War.

Halliburton's lawyers took over the Cox investigation to get rid of Nixon, managed Papa Bush's 1980 campaign, became Reagan's chief of staff and Treasury Secretary, Papa Bush's Secretary of State, negotiated the peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union, and argued Bush v Gore for Baby Bush.

Dick Cheney is a bit player in Halliburton's history. And to argue Cheney had closed door meetings with oil executed to get EPA exemptions to develop fracking, making the US less dependent on Saudi, Russian, Iraqi or Iranian oil, stabilizing the price, making the US as net exporter of oil services, and (heres the kicker I love) making it possible for John McCain & Obama to ban and try to bankrupt Russian oil exports with sanctions, mskes this page an inaccurate representation of Halliburton's history. All this page is now is leftover DNC-communist propaganda.RobS^{Deep Six the Deep State!} 21:09, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

You make great points, Rob. I agree that the accusation about fracking is implausible. Please revise the page as you think best.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 21:15, 3 September 2018 (EDT)

That's what all these closed door meetings between Cheney and oil execs was about - fracking. 10 years later, those closed door meetings brought the pump price down, made the US less dependent on foreign oil - particularly Iraqi & Russian - and made Russian sanctions possible. To hear liberals complain about it shows how partisan and uninformed they are.RobS^{Deep Six the Deep State!} 21:21, 3 September 2018 (EDT)