Absolutely Nothing

Absolutely nothing at all, huh, Dick?

From the 2000 Vice Presidential debate:

SEN LIBERMAN: [...] And I'm pleased to say - see Dick, from the newspapers, that you're better off than you were eight years ago, too. (Laughter.)

MR. CHENEY: And most of it -

SEN. LIEBERMAN: (Chuckles.)

MR. CHENEY: And I -- I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it.

SEN. LIEBERMAN: (Laughing.) (Inaudible.)

(Laughter, applause.)

Laughter, Laughter, all right. Har-de-f***ing-har-har.

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.

The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton in connection with the war in Iraq are significantly greater than was previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that as much as one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.

The lying started well before these jackasses (weren't) elected.