Was Enron still ordering Bush around in 2002?
915904
this is to much but I'm sure bush have dirty hands in all of this enron stuff
511103
No.  There's an article here that puts the date at 2009, though.
50415
I do not approve of much the Bush Administration has perpetrated in its five years of existence, but I think it's entirely appropriate to compare present administrations to recent past ones.  Anyway, the Clinton Administration did far more good than bad, so the Bush Administration comes up short anyway.
323051
Must be so, look who our population, elected, although there are doubts among many, how legal that election was in 2004. We know that G.W. Bush, stile the one in 2000 with help from the Supreme Court.
30003
because Bush is a liar, a cheat, and he has enough rich powerful people backing him that he bought his way into office; TWICE! He has made enough rich people richer that he keeps getting away with such atrocities as opening up our roadless forests to mining and gas companies, giving away huge tax breaks to the Oil Industry giants, giving tax breaks to companies who move their base of operations out of the U.S. so hundreds of thousands of people lose their good paying jobs, close friends and working with top CEO's of Enron to give them tax breaks and let Enron run Pennsylvania's energy industry before that flopped, to lying to americans and congress about Iraq, war profiteering and the list just goes on and on. Does anyone wonder why Clinton was impeached for lying about sex? And no one questions why Bush has NOT been impeached for war crimes and illegaly wiretapping americans without a warrant? Hmm let's try to figure out which is more serious: sex or war? BIG difference! Please visit the sites below to find out more information and ways on how you can make a difference on removing the Bush Regime! It's time we remove this blood & oil thirsty dictator!
894497
No it is not. Most of Bushes friends are crooks...example Ken Lay. ENRON\narrogant and deluded the whole lot of them
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It is hard for me to understand your question, but here goes.\n\nIn real simple terms, what happened at Enron was:\n\nEnron would by a unit of energy for say $95, and then sell that same unit of energy for $100. That would make for a profit of $5 on that single transaction. \n\nWhat they did (wrong) was to record the $100 as profit instead of the real profit of $5. This kept going on and on until some people started noticing things. Wall Street analysts were able to reason that Enron could not be making as much profit as they were showing on the books, so one by one the Wall Street analysts downgraded Enron stock. \n\nThese numerous downgrades caused investors to sell Enron stock, which caused the price of the stock to go lower, which in turn caused a depletion of capital for Enron. In order to get more money to finance their scheme, Enron turned to the banks to lend them money. This cycle kept repeating itself. After a while  the banks refused to lend more money to Enron, because they figured that Enron was over extended on their credit. After all of this Enron had no more money, and had to declare bankruptcy.\n\nEnron was in effect borrowing all their money from shareholders and banks. When those sources of money dried up, bankruptcy was the only option.
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Big Nooooooo.  He was, not any more.  Check his stock's performance VS. the indices in the last 3 years.  This stock has been spanked by the S&P 500, Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ Composite each and every year for the last 3.\n\nYear           2003       2004        2005   $ 100,000.00\nBRB.B         16.18%      4.29%      0.00%   $ 121,164.12\nNASDAQ        50.01%      8.56%      1.37%   $ 165,081.90\nRussell 2000  45.37%     16.95%      3.32%   $ 175,654.54\nS&P 500       26.38%      8.97%      3.00%   $ 141,847.76\nWhich account would you rather not have, assuming investing $ 100K since beginning of 2003 until the end of 2005?
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In early 2000, Enron, the natural gas pipeline company\nturned online phenomenon, held a daylong conference in Houston for Wall\nStreet analysts and investors. The audience, packed with financial experts\non the natural gas and power industries, was wowed by all the talk of\nEnron's online capabilities, especially its rapidly growing business of\nelectronically matching buyers and sellers of numerous commodities like\nelectricity and even network bandwidth.\n\nThe analysts were particularly receptive when Jeffrey Skilling, then Enron's\npresident, suggested that the company's money-losing broadband network\nbusiness alone was worth $29 billion, or an extra $37 a share. He even had a\nnifty PowerPoint slide to explain his company's proper stock price.\n\nUnsurprisingly, Enron's shares skyrocketed by more than 50 percent in the\nfirst half of that year. Enron, it seems, had become an Internet company,\nand decidedly old-economy energy-industry analysts were loath to be left\nbehind. \n\nThe problem is that it was all a lie.  Company executives used inflated numbers and faked financial reports.  The stock price plummeted and investors, including retirement plans that had invested in Enron, lost tons of money.
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Mni...PLEASE! Conspiracy my A$$!\n\nThe Bush family is an oil Empire. They are close friends with many Saudi VIP's. They ARE profiting from the Iraqi war, and when a no-bid contract is awarded, it ain't because someone is giving a great price...somebody is getting their pockets lined. Who might that be?\n\n\nThat ain't no F'ing conspiracy, buddy!
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The Saudi Royal family have a great deal to do with the Bush family's wealth. In the midst of a down oil market George Jr's Oil company turned record profits. You may say well George Jr. is a good businessman. Well, if his presidential prowess is any sign of how he runs a business we can put his former oil company profits in jeopardy. I have listed my source below.
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It is a fact that the energy policy of the current administration was formulated in closed meetings with VP Cheney and executives of Enron and a few other energy companies. Executive privilege has been invoked to prevent release to congress of the details of those meetings. The new democratic congress will no doubt launch an investigation to try to learn exactly what went on and if there was any wrong-doing by the administration.  \n\nThe SEC and the accounting profession, in the form of independent auditors, are supposed to insure that the annual financial statements of public companies fairly represent the actual operating results and financial condition of those companies. In the cases of Enron, Global com, Global Crossing and a few others, those financial statements were seriously misstated and not caught by the auditors or the SEC. Wrong doing and negligence were at the bottom of those failures. I was so disgusted at the failure of the accounting profession, that I resigned from the AICPA - the professional society that oversees accounting and auditing standards.
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Will kid, it will be along time coming,President Richard M Nixon had quite allot of wells caped in the 70's Saving them as reserves for the faucher. And there are several undrilled wells to be drilled.We don't need Aarika oil,It just makes money for the Bush family,and there crone's. When the time Com's we can use synthetics,Alcohol burns rill good.NASCAR has bin using it for years.And NANSA has bin using hydrogen for year's as well.
575776
Man, you should have seen the state of the Oval Office when my boy Bill left: pizza boxes, empty forties, condom rappers all over the place!  Don't even get me started on the Lincoln Bedroom!  Anyway, Bush had all that stuff cleaned up by the summer of 2002, so no he's not currently cleaning up Clinton's mess.
827637
I'd love to see detailed reports on how Bush is "profiting" from the oil. 6 Years later and your still clinging to your catchy bumper sticker slogans...
873
Except your facts are all wrong. Halliburton acquired Brown & Root in 1962, well before major US involvement in Vietnam. KBR didn't become its own entity until 2002 after the asbestos lawsuits were going full steam ahead, threatening Halliburton assets. The company spilt off KBR and placed in under bankruptcy protection.\n\nSo what is your question anyway??? It appears to be a misguided attack on the right.
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yes\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml