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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (279721)	7/23/2002 7:08:25 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you asked a hypothetical question...and you're so scared of your own hypothetical that you directly go nuclear? and, of course, why would saddam have taken sanctions seriously when cheney's halliburton was trading with him anyway?

To: Ish who wrote (279721)	7/23/2002 7:12:10 PM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey, Ish...FYI: Bush Disapproval at Pre-Attack Level And he's getting ready for another VACATION!!! ...at the 'non-ranch-sans-animals' in good ole Crawford!!! _______________________________________ Bush Disapproval at Pre-Attack Level truthout.org Bush Disapproval at Pre-Attack Level New Poll Finds Fewer Than Half Would Vote to Re-Elect President MSNBC.com Monday, 22 July, 2002 Fewer than half of likely voters believe President Bush should be re-elected, according to a poll released Monday that shows that approval of the president's job performance remains at its lowest level since before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Zogby America Poll, conducted Friday through Sunday, showed that 47 percent of likely voters believed that Bush deserved re-election, compared to 32 percent who said it was time for someone new. The remaining 21 percent were undecided. The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan public opinion firm Zogby International of Genesee, N.Y., surveyed 1,003 likely voters nationwide. The poll reported a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. Bush's positive approval rating, 62 percent, was unchanged from that reported in a similar Zogby poll last week, as was his negative rating, 38 percent. The ratings in the two polls are the lowest Bush has received since the week before Sept. 11, when voters gave him a 50 percent positive rating and a 49 percent negative rating. Bush's approval ratings remained extraordinarily high for months after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. But his ratings began inching downward as attention shifted from the military campaign in Afghanistan to the slumping economy in late February, when he 74 percent of likely voters approved of his performance. "Here is a president who was elected with only 48 percent of the popular vote, and more than 11/2 years later, even in a time of war, remains stuck in that position," said pollster John Zogby, who has conducted surveys for NBC News. PARTY-LINE SPLIT With mid-term elections less than four months away, the months of bipartisan support the president has enjoyed have also begun giving way to traditional party-line divisions, the new poll suggested. Approval and disapproval overwhelmingly tracked party registration, with 83 percent of Republicans saying Bush deserved to be re-elected, compared to only 19 percent of Democrats. The poll indicated, however, that the president has opportunity for improvement - a quarter of Democrats and 28 percent of registered independents said they were still undecided. The congressional campaign was a statistical dead heat, with 35 percent of voters saying they planned to vote for Democrats and 34 percent saying they would vote for Republicans, a statistically insignificant difference that was essentially unchanged from last week's 34 percent-to-34 percent tie. More than a quarter of the electorate, 28 percent, said it had not made up its mind, suggesting that the already fiercely contested campaign was likely to heat up even more as the parties wrestled for control of the divided Congress. An even clearer indicator of the political landscape was expected later Monday, when NBC News and the Wall Street Journal were scheduled to release results of their latest joint poll, conducted at the same time. (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.) Print This Story E-mail This Story © : t r u t h o u t 2002 \| t r u t h o u t \| forum \| issues \| editorial \| letters \| donate \| contact \| \| voting rights \| environment \| budget \| children \| politics \| indigenous survival \| energy \| \| defense \| health \| economy \| human rights \| labor \| trade \| women \| reform \| global \| _______________________________________ bia

To: Ish who wrote (279721)	7/23/2002 7:14:14 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush/Cheney...the great modifiers 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. Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries said they knew of no policy against dealing with Iraq. One of them said he was certain Cheney knew about the deals, though he had never spoken about them to the vice president directly. If he "was ever in a conversation or meeting where there was a question of pursuing a project with someone in Iraq, he said, 'No,' " Mary Matalin, Cheney's counselor, said. "In a joint venture, he would not have reviewed all their existing contracts," Matalin told the Post. "The nature of those joint ventures was that they had a separate governing structure, so he had no control over them." The deal was legal, the Post said, and they showed how U.S. firms use foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures to avoid doing business with Baghdad. The practice is not a violation of U.S. law and falls within the U.N.-run oil-for-food program. The Post said U.N. records showed that the dealings were more extensive than originally reported and than Cheney had acknowledged, however. According to the report, the Halliburton subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold material to Baghdad through French affiliates. The sales lasted from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000. Cheney resigned from Halliburton in August. "Halliburton and Ingersoll-Rand, as far as I know, had no official policy about that, other than we would be in compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws," said Cleive Dumas, who oversaw Ingersoll Dresser Pump's business in the Middle East, including Iraq. Cheney's spokeswoman, Juleanna Glover Weiss, referred the Post's calls to Halliburton, which in turn, directed them back to Cheney's office. In a July 30, 2000, interview on ABC-TV's "This Week," Cheney denied that Halliburton or its subsidiaries traded with Baghdad. Three weeks later, on the same program, he modified his response after being informed that a Halliburton spokesman had said that Dresser Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump traded with Iraq. Cheney said he did not know the subsidiaries were doing business with the Iraqi regime when Halliburton purchased Dresser Industries in September 1998. The firms traded with Iraq for more than a year under Cheney, however. They signed nearly $30 million in contracts before he sold Halliburton's 49 percent stake in Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. in December 1999 and its 51 percent interest in Dresser Rand to Ingersoll-Rand in February 2000, the Post quoted U.N. records as saying. Cheney has long criticized of unilateral U.S. sanctions, which he says penalize American companies. He has pushed for a review of policy toward Iraq, Iran and Libya. newsmax.com