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To: jlallen who wrote (274969)	7/15/2002 9:13:14 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 769670

Halliburton Iraq ties more than Cheney said NewsMax Wires Monday, June 25, 2001 UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (UPI) -- Halliburton Co., the oil company that was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, signed contracts with Iraq worth $73 million through two subsidiaries while he was at its helm, the Washington Post reported. During last year's presidential campaign, Cheney said Halliburton did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries, but maintained he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq. "Iraq's different," the Post quoted him as saying. Oil industry executives and confidential U.N. records showed, however, that Halliburton held stakes in two companies that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer, the Post reported. newsmax.com

To: jlallen who wrote (274969)	7/15/2002 10:42:48 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I doubt he will ever be convicted of anything as long as this administration is in control of the government. As far as Cheney's record goes, here's a few facts: 1)During the Vietnam war period he applied for and received four(yes, 4!!) separate draft deferments. His first was the common college deferment, the others were obscure and required real imagination and connections to obtain. All in all, he managed to end up with deferments all the way up to the point that the draft was eliminated. At Haliburton, Cheney dipped his snout in the feeding trough like most of the rest of the corporate swine, taking home more than $22M in compensation for his last year as CEO alone. This for a guy who describes himself as a "hands off" manager. Well, if he's so hands off what was the $22M for????? While at Haliburton, Cheney's major achievement was the purchase of another company that had serious exposure to asbestos litigation and has dragged Haliburton's stock down badly. Cheney also managed to see that Haliburton's books were sufficiently cooked to let him cash in his options at a juicy price. If it walks like a pig, snorts like a pig, smells like a pig...it probably is a pig.