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Originally posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Here are a few facts:
Cheney led one of most aggressive and profitable companies in the world. The amount of power he built and maintained was monumental.
Actually, Haliburton could hardly be described as being one of the most profitable companies in their industry, let alone the world. More like Average for the Oil Services industry.




And their stock performance hasn't even outperformed the S&P 500 in spite of being more volitile, while they were out performed by Schlumberger -- another Oil Services firm.

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