[cairns]

Ther's just no reasonable discourse with you, is there mate? You take your orders from the extreme left wing of the DNC and there's no middle ground.

For your information I've never watched Limbaugh and rarely watch television news (except occasionally for Deutsche Welle). I'm a registered Democrat. I support abortion rights and stem cell research. I subscribe to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and try to read them both everyday. But I take all the news with a grain of salt- everyone seems to have an agenda these days. For a site like halliburton.org, having worked with the firm for many years, I'd take a lot of salt. Having seen the Post mis-report this stuff before- either for an agenda or out of ignorance or the desire for sensationalism- I'd take their reports with more than a little salt too.

Halliburton as a company is no saint that's for sure. But they aren't the devil either. They employ thousands of people who are honest and hardworking and some of them even run the company. They have faced the same scandals that nearly all large firms have- Boeing, Unisys, LM, GD, etc. And if there's malfeasance I'm sure they will pay for it- one way or the other. Just as all of 'em do.

But there's apparently no way to make you realize this hence discussing or debating the issue, with you at least, is pointless.

You win I concede.