I have no problem with Halliburton moving to Dubai.  But can’t they take Cheney, Bush, and the neocons with them?  Why not AIPAC as well, that way they would be closer to Israel?

Comment #58128 by lawlessone on 3/12 at 11:09 am

. . . .  ‘But, where is former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney planning to hide?’

He’s got his underground fortress in Wyoming.  Would that be a safe-haven for him?  What good is ALL the money in the world, when you don’t have your health ?  I don’t “get it”!  Is it GREED or is it sheer EGO? He’s got a
a hoarding psychosis I guess.  He doesn’t accumulate junk . . .  just money, land and natural resources. Ah yes . . . and enemies.

Yoo Hoo people, lets take a closer look at the Walter Reed Conspiracy, does no one realize that the company hired to run this V.A. Hospital also has ties to Halliburton.  This is a thing called RAPE of our great country, by none other than the leaders themselves.  IMPEACHMENT

I bet if we check out the fanciest hotel in Dubai; we’ll find Osama bin Laden in the pent house suite--and the CEO of Halliburton occupying the adjoining rooms.  Halliburton made the right decision to move out of Houston—-why make any pretense at being anything more than what they are, a COLD CALCULATED CABAL OF CORPORATE CROOKS. 

Or maybe the heads of Halliburton are concerned that one day soon, our lazy lackadaisical losers in Congress and the Senate, will hold hearings to investigate just how much money has been stolen from the U.S. treasury; after all, those no bid criminal contracts were outrageous-—if that happens, these thieves won’t have to flee to Dubai they’ll already be there—-but don’t hold your breath.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

Halliburton has apparently decided to move its CEO David Lesar to a Dubai address in the United “Oil” Emerites.  No doubt he will feel safer there since he will not have to worry about extradition for corruption, overcharging, war profiteering or war crimes tribunals.  But, where is former Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney planning to hide?

Looks like all the major players are planning their post-retirement homes - Bush to Paraguay (Jenna and Barbara were down there signing the papers for a huge land purchase complete with natural gas and fresh water below ground) and now Cheney to Dubai. Where will the unlovely Condoleezza Rice go, I wonder? Laura probably won’t want to share the house and Dubya with her in Paraguay.

I have been worried but now I feel a terrible dread of impending doom.
The rats jump ship when it is sinking.
Is it possible that the administration has finally destroyed this great ship of state and the rats are prescient?

How much a year does halliburton receive in tax breaks?

Is it legal to give tax breaks to a company that no longer headquarters in the US?

They must know something or be afraid of something to pull out when they have the cow, the milk and the pasture.
Do they know something about Dick Cheney that we do not know?
If he resigned, do they loose their protection???

Not sure Nancy’s ready to run a country but the BCR stooges proved they can’t. So hey, Halliburton! How about you invade yet another Arab state and take your Bu$h-©heиey-Яov∑ $heik$ with you?

Stop, thief!..... Oh, wait.  They already got away with it.  Too late.

Since Halliburton is no longer a US company it should be stripped of ALL contracts requiring security clearances, involvement with the military in any way, shape or form, or domestic security--including natural disasters.

In fact, Halliburton should be stripped of ALL federal contracts, barred from ever receiving any, and required to register as a foreign agent.  Vice-President Cheney should also be required, as the once and future CEO of Halliburton, to register as a foreign agent.

We allowed the conviction of a confused and malable young man, a convert to a religion that we don’t like (I don’t), who was found in combat after we invaded Afganistan. Now it is unsettling to find an American converted to and living in a foriegn country and fighting for his belief, but he was not in the United States doing these things. He should have resigned his citizenship, before changing his allegence, but being young and caught up in his new found certitude he was brought back to this country and called an American Taliban Traitor. His behavior hardly was a threat to this country, his activities outside our juristiction.

Now we see one of many corporations that have bought their way into our treasury and are moving their assets to a hostile region and freeing themselves from the laws of the country that has made them rich. If we must be throwing the label traitor around, why are there no punishments being leveled against these super rich who are most responsible for the mess we are currently in? The American Talbian traitor is in prison for hardly hurting his country at all and the huge corporation Halliburton that has broken the laws to make huge profits from our treasury is conspiring with the duplicity of the Arabs and they continue to have access to our elected leaders that the voters do not. How long is democracy going to last in these circumstances?

Brilliant and hilarious satire! Andy Borovitz has outdone himself in showng how corporations like Haliburton, loyal only to revenues, cynically use the American military to turn billions of dollars of public money into millions of dollars of private profits. Oh, wait...this article isn’t by Andy Borovitz. This...this...is true!!!

Well, maybe I’m a suspicious person, but it seems fishy that the same time that one of their own (Scooter) is convicted, Slippery Dick moves his headquarters (and files, computers, etc.) out of reach of any U.S. Prosecutors....hmmmm. As to losing their “pipeline” into the U.S. Treasury - how has that changed?  The dough can be transferred from anywhere, to anywhere in the blink of an eye. Accountability is only for suckers and Democrats. Wonder if Dubai (like Paraguay) DOESN’T have an extradition treaty with America?
IMPEACH, PLEASE?

Well, well, well . . . and I mean OIL WELLS. Black Gold. Once Mr. Bush’s term as President is over; he will, no doubt, get high recommendations from Dick (Cheyney) for a position in the Halliburton Company.  He needn’t worry about being unemployed because a “cushie” job will be waiting for him in the Mid-East . . . or Texas if he prefers . . . Well, what do you expect, it’s fun being a globe-trotter.  He ain’t been holdin’ hands with the Saudis for nutin’. ( Am I unwittingly paraphrasing Anne Coulter here ?)

Is it not ironic that the one place that this filthy company will reside (and continue to rape) is the very part of the world that hates the very air that Cheney and company breath’s wonder what kind of safety assurances they have gotten to seal this deal?.. This is a classic mega corporate move..Guess where the Cheney’s will be retiring to?

More proof that the pipelines go both ways: oil OUT of the Middle East, U.S. dollars (and power) IN. And now it’s official—the company that controls the American government has dropped any pretense it’s even American. MEET THE NEW BOSS!!!

I’ll bet the landfills filling up with shredded documents!…

Get out of Dodge, the sheriff’s coming!

Did yuou know?  That a hydrocarbon law currently under review by Iraqi parliament (scripted by US consultancy firm) will require prolonged US occupation of Iraq.  It will provide lucrative profits for US energy corporations.  It will commit US government to protect American energy company operations and investment in Iraq by keeping US troops there (at taxpayer expense?).(Source:  Green Party of Washington State

Don’t dream the war on Iraq to come to an end soon. Why ? Because Halliburton’s Cheney wanted to steal more money from tax payers through all of its affairs in this war torn country. Only 2006 the Halliburton’s Cheney stole over 2 Billion and how much of this amount going to Cheney’s secret bank overseas ? Just ask him. Bush was blind and deaf so did not do anything and let Cheney sit on his head then peeing down with all of his ambitions.

Only Cheney going to hell the war in Iraq will end peacefully !

I hope this is not the beginning of more wars and more destructions follow by more rebuilding.

Jack Stevenson, comment #58001, wonders whether Halliburton will pay any U.S. taxes now that it has relocated to Dubai.  Halliburton did not pay any federal income taxes during four of the five years that Dick Cheney was its CEO.  With Cheney still receiving monies from Halliburton, with the ongoing symbiotic relationship between KBR and U.S. military bases world-wide, I think it is fairly safe to assume that the corporate pigs will continue to feed at the public trough.

I wonder if Darth Cheney will be relocating to Dubai after he leaves office? Oh...and by the way, wasn’t one of the terrorists responsible for the attacks on 9/11 from Dubai, aka United Arab Emirates? Hmmm...must be a coincidence...I’m sure there’s no connection with Halliburton.

With 22.6 billion in revenues for 2006, I’m thinking old Darth has an extremely fat bank account waiting for him in Dubai, via of course, the Caymans and Switzerland. I’m thinking, his accounts have to be spread out, cause you can’t have that many billions in a single bank. I wonder if he measures his bootie by weight, or by volume? How many tons of 100 dollar bills do you think he got off the shipment of 12 billion from the Federal Reserve to Iraq in December 2003? Perhaps he measures it in terms of shipping containers. Say, 10 shipping containers filled to the top, for his share? Don’t want to be greedy now…

From Raw Story…

“Said Democrat Henry Waxman (D-CA) of the US effort to send so much money to Iraq, “To do that, the Federal Reserve Bank had to pack 281 million individual bills… This money, mainly $100 bills was packed into bricks and each brick was worth $400,000 each… The cash weighed more than 363 tons.”

Try wrapping your mind around 363 tons of 100 dollar bills. I can’t get there. Oh, and don’t forget, the 363 tons of money simply vanished...no one knows what became of it. Hmmm...where did I leave that 363 tons of money anyway...I know it was here yesterday!?!? Oh well, bygones!

What kind of moron actually believes there was no conflict of interest with Cheney leaving Halliburton, after handpicking himself as Vice President. He was always on the “short list”...as in, a list of one. Just a coincidence that Halliburton got just about EVERY no-bid contract for the Iraq attack...ya, and the Easter Bunny is real, so make sure to stay up to see him bring your chocolate eggs on Easter morning.

Perhaps they’re going to build Cheney a palace of pure gold in Dubai that will be the size of Vatican City? Wouldn’t surprise me.

And Bush will be off to Paraguay...to ride the Pampas with the other progeny of the boys from Brazil. Herr Prescott would be so very proud of his excellent grandson!

Sounds like they are preparing for a possibility of illegal revelations regarding their business in Iraq.  What a nice way to say FU to the US after all the money they stole from us.

Perhaps we should pull Dick Cheney’s passport until the questions Jack Stevenson and Dan ask get answered.

It’s all about tax shelters. These are the most unpatriot morally corrupt people the US has ever seen. I’m sure Cheney has made millions secretly since he started the Iraq war war made billions for his war profiteering cronies.
all the while treat the soldiers like Katrina victims. If they really cared about the troops the would be paid as much as the civilians who are working in Iraq. They also would not have to spray for roaches in their hospital beds. Sending soldiers to the same war more than once is a war crime itself. The pimps like Cheney,Bush and Halliburton who is using the military like a street whore are the only ones who benefit and profit from this illegal,immoral war.

Those merchants of death and wars have inside knowledge where all the future imperialist American and Israeli wars will take place. So they want to be where their business belongs to maximize their death and wars profits.

However, Dubai will not stay for long an oasis of security. Possibly at the time this news spreads around the world there will be many parties who would start plans for something big at the scale of 9 /11. It could come from nationalist or Islamists who would see in this another sign of foreign domination of their land. But it can be an inside operation, or an Israeli one, to justify occupying militarily the United Arab Emirates and taking physical control of all the land with all its oil wealth!

I might not be alive when this happens, but mark my words and acknowledge the validity of my prophesy when it happens.

Well, well, well, . . .  OIL WELLS that is. As Jed Clampert(sp.?) used to say ‘Black Gold!’ Post-Presidency you know where Bush has a job. . . I’m sure Dick (Cheyney) can arrange it.  Texas or the Mid-East?  It’s great fun being powerful AND a globe-trotter.  Heck, he hasn’t been holding hands with the Saudis, for nut’n.

Will Halliburton be required to pay U.S. taxes if it is based in Dubai?

Will Halliburton be beyond the reach of U.S. law if it is based in Dubai?

Will Halliburton maintain it’s direct pipline into the U.S. Treasury?

I think a more interesting question might be where is Haliburton going to be registered. If it is not a US Corporation any more, is it not protected from some legal consequences?

NO conflicts of interest HERE, nooooooo....

9-11, Iraq war, Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney. Hmm.... something seems to be a tad bit suspicious!!