re: If you think Cheney......
If you want to imagine some shady arrangement whereby Cheney still runs Halliburton, go ahead. Lord knows the Democrats have been digging for something like that for two years. By the way, my most recent calculations show Cheney's stock options to be worth about minus $7 million bucks.
I think I have seen the word "Halliburton" used exactly once in the media in the past six months without having the words "Vice President Cheney's former company" tacked to it.