Ted RE. don't suppose you read John Fowler's article from the New Yorker. If you had, you would realize that Halliburton under Cheney found ways to avoid the UN sanctions on Iraq. But wait.......you don't care. Anything the US does is all good......even when its bad, huh?
The author clearly states that the sales were legal. What the author tries to imply, is that the sales would have been illegal if they were exported from the US. Not so. Oil for food sales, were justified and allowed under US sanctions, whether they originated in an offshore subsidiary, or from the US mainland. One paragraph further down in your article, the author say this of those Dresser deals.
But, under Cheney’s watch, two foreign subsidiaries of Dresser sold millions of dollars’ worth of oil services and parts to Saddam’s regime. The transactions were not illegal, but they were politically suspect. The deals occurred under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, at a time when Saddam Hussein chose which companies his government would work with.
You will note here the author, has dropped his legal only because they came from an offshore subsidiary, and now claims that while legal, under sanctions I presume, they were politically suspect. How so. Halbuton is/ was an oil services company. They are not necessarily in politics. But if You are an biased author, I guess one can claim anything, and some dopes will believe it. |
