Halliburton: Burn & Loot

Halliburton?s construction-and-engineering subsidiary … Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the height of the resistance to the war, Brown & Root became a target of protesters, and soldiers in Vietnam derided it as Burn & Loot … former Treasury Secretary Paul O?Neill charges that Cheney agitated for U.S. intervention well before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Additional evidence that Cheney played an early planning role is contained in a previously undisclosed National Security Council document, dated February 3, 2001. The top-secret document, written by a high-level N.S.C. official, concerned Cheney?s newly formed Energy Task Force. It directed the N.S.C. staff to co?perate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered the ?melding? of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy: ?the review of operational policies towards rogue states,? such as Iraq, and ?actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields.?