Time for Druff to abandon his delusion about George W. Bush and the Iraq War

[Dan Druff]

Left wing conspiracy BS.

Cheney left Halliburton well before the war -- in 2000.

He was given an "early exit" package from Halliburton when he left to run for Vice President. This sort of package is very common for ANY CEO of a major corporation who leaves. Recall the recent discussion of Yahoo owing Marisa Mayer $161 million if they were to fire her now.

Conspiracy theorists say that his $34 million departure package was a bribe to get him to start a war where Halliburton would benefit. There is no evidence of such an agreement, rather just conspiracy theories invented by Cheney's critics who see that Halliburton profited a lot from the Iraq war after he was already gone.

There is no substance to these allegations, and in fact Cheney's package when he departed was pretty standard.

Saying Cheney left Haliburton is like saying that Stephanopoulos stopped working for Clinton when he took the reporter gig at ABC.

Stephanapulous actually didn't appear very loyal at all to Clinton once he left their camp. I never saw him as a Sandy Berger type.

What do you think Cheney gained from Halliburton after 2000? Secret payments to Swiss bank accounts?

Sorry, but this all seems like unsubstantiated nonsense to me, where people just connect the dots between "Cheney was CEO of Halliburton" and "Halliburton profited from the war" to mean "Cheney started a war to help his old company". And while that's a sensational thing to claim and get people riled up, closer examination shows that it's not that simple to jump to such a conclusion.