Previously undisclosed Halliburton documents obtained by The Public Record confirm that controlling the world's second largest oil reserves was a top priority for the Bush administration. Additionally, the deal between the Department of Defense and Halliburton unit Kellogg, Brown & Root to operate Iraq's oil industry saved Halliburton from imminent bankruptcy.

A March 6, 2003 internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" within Cheney's office.



The e-mail says Douglas Feith, the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, received authorization from then Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to “execute” the Restore Iraqi Oil contract to Halliburton in 2002.



Feith was one of the architects of the Iraq war who operated the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans that exaggerated the Iraqi threat and provided the White House with bogus information about links between Iraq and al Qaeda.

Some people -- anti-Semites, mostly -- deny that oil theft motivated the decision to invade Iraq. All such "alternative" theories face one problem: The oil was, in fact, stolen -- and Cheney planned the theft well in advance.The bankruptcy threat came from lawsuits over asbestos poisoning, which led to a form of cancer called mesothelioma. Those ultra-lucrative big money suits are the reason why lawyers have littered the landscape with so many ads trolling for mesothelioma sufferers. At one time, certain law firms would pay as much as ten dollars whenever someone clicked on a Google ad dealing with mesothelioma. (Most Google ads bring in pennies per click.) For a while, some bloggers went out of their way to mention the word "mesothelioma" in their posts, since Google's software automatically matches ads to certain key words. Words like "mesothelioma." Mesothelioma, mesothelioma, mesothelioma.(Kidding. I don't even get the Google checks anymore, which were always quite miniscule, and I couldn't care less if they canceled the Adsense program on me. Let's get back to our story.)Right there, you have sufficient grounds for immediate impeachment of Dick Cheney. Not just impeachment: A RICO suit.