| August 28, 2003 | - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revealed that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old company, has received more than $1.7 billion in military contracts in Iraq, far more than was previously known. It was noted that the practice of outsourcing logistical operations to private contractors was pioneered by Cheney during the first Gulf War when he was secretary of defense. Brown and Root won the first such contract, and Cheney was hired as CEO of Halliburton soon afterward.
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Washington Post
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| July 22, 2003 | - The former head of the U.S. army's Depleted Uranium Project announced that the damage from munitions used in both Gulf Wars will eclipse the Agent Orange fallout of the Vietnam War.
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Buffalo News
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| November 5, 2002 | -
The National Rifle Association held a pro-gun rally in Tucson, Arizona, just two days after a Gulf War veteran shot and killed three nursing professors there.
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Police arrested a Gulf War veteran and his teenage Jamaican sidekick in the Washington sniper case, ending a media frenzy that included a request by CNN to interview actors from the CBS series “Crime Scene Investigation.” Lengthy footage was broadcast of a tree stump being dug up and hauled away.
Experts and profilers who had spent untold hours on television speculating about the killer were forced to admit that their prophecies had been worthless.
“My predictions were not that close,” one expert said.
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| September 10, 2002 | -
In fact, the report said that Iraq had been six to 24 months away from developing the bomb prior to the Gulf War and the subsequent weapons inspections but that there was no evidence that Iraq had retained the physical capability to develop nuclear weapons now.
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| August 27, 2002 | -
“Obviously, to the extent that, you know, our friends promote democracy, that's important,” President Bush responded, and assured the American public that Musharraf is “still tight with us in the war against terror, and that's what I appreciate.” Lawyers for President Bush determined that he can launch an attack on Iraq without approval from Congress, since the permission his father received in 1991 to engage in the Persian Gulf War remains in effect.
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| February 27, 2001 | - Former president George Bush was in Kuwait for the tenth anniversary of the Gulf War.
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| August 1, 2000 | -
Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney, his father's secretary of defense during the Gulf War, to be his running mate.
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