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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (4290)2/27/2004 11:47:48 AM
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>>>REGARDLESS OF whether Halliburton was involved in bribing the former Nigerian government, the fact that Dick Cheney would choose to do business with that corrupt regime is itself significant. During much of the 1990s, Nigeria, an oil-and-gas-rich nation on Africa’s west coast, was under the thumb of Sani Abacha, a brutal military dictator. Most notoriously, the Abacha regime threw thousands of political opponents into prison, and executed nine environmental activists, including the playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa.

That a future vice-president would be heavily involved in business dealings with the Abacha regime should have attracted some attention in 2000, when Cheney was chosen — chose himself, some might say — as George W. Bush’s running mate....<<<

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