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Letter from Chip Northrup

We've See this Melodrama Before

I was having lunch at the Petroleum Club in Midland, Texas when a shout went up as the invasion of Iraq was announced. When the war was over, the concessions for the northern Iraqi oil fields went to Hunt Oil of Dallas, owned by Ray Hunt, George W. Bush's largest campaign donor. The no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq went to Halliburton, Vice President Cheney's former company.

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