Across
1. The Washington D.C. based Defense firm that has made billions of dollars in Iraq related defense contracts and whose investors include George Bush Sr. and the Bin Laden family.
2. After 20 years of working for Sandia National Laboratories where she headed research on a radioactive waste dump in Nevada, she was appointed director of the DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, a position from which she could approve the contract to her former employer.
3. The opposition party that is apparently unable to devise a strategy and combat President Bush effectively, despite the fact that there is no lack of ammunition to use against him.
4. Former three-star Army general (and friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) who was president of the DOD contractors (SY Coleman) specializing in missile-defense systems that attacked Iraq, later appointed by the Bush administration to oversee the rebuilding of Iraq.
5. The oil services group once led by Vice President Dick Cheney that has been given nearly $500 million of work in Iraq.
Down
1. Branch of the US Government whose members were lead to believe that Halliburton was receiving a contract to put out oil fires in Iraq, and only learned five weeks later that the company would additionally be pumping and selling the oil.
2. Former Chairman of the Bush administration's Defense Policy Board, of which nine members have ties to US defense contractors, who resigned in March amid allegations of conflict of interest.
3. This former US National Security Advisor accused of war crimes including supporting the murder of half a million civilians in Bangladesh, advising the bombing of 950,000 civilians in Cambodia, and illegal assassination, was declared by George W. Bush as "one of our nation's most accomplished and respected public servants" and appointed as Chairman of the 'independent' commission of inquiry into the 911 attacks on the US.
