A Skopje cab driver on Dick Cheney and Halliburton

i never miss an opportunity to talk with taxi drivers no matter where i happen to be... if you want to know what's on the mind of the locals, you can bet they will be the ones to tell you...

yesterday evening, in the cab between the office and my house, i was chatting with the driver... it's coming up to election time here in macedonia and the driver was sarcastically pointing out how skopje city officials have decided that now is a good time to repair some streets in hopes of buying a few votes... i commented that it's the same everywhere in the world... in buenos aires last year, the city officials decided that fixing up the city parks just prior to the elections was a terrific idea... this led to a discussion of the seeming universality of public officials on the take... he turned to me and said, "i can't remember, what's the name of your vice president, the one who works for that company that has all the contracts in iraq...?" "dick cheney," i replied... "and what's the company?" he asked... "halliburton," i said...

my point to folks back in the u.s.: if a cab driver in skopje, macedonia, can see it so clearly, why can't we...?

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