Iraq

[US Seagull]

As usual, a good point made with poor statistics. If you cut the graph at the beginning of the conflict then the price is around $21 which is therefore only a 50% increase, not 150%. Also the cut-off of the graph with starting at $10 instead of zero again amplifies the increase when viewed proportionately.

Since Halliburton were making money off the build up to war as well I think the time frame in the original cartoon is valid. Halliburton made huge wads of money supplying the troops as they sat around the Kuwait/Iraq border waiting for the kick-off. Not to mention the money made from Afganistan too.

I was offered a job at Halliburton back in early 2003. I almost regret not taking it since those stock options would have been quite tasty.