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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (20897)	3/14/2003 4:53:13 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 25898

Rumsfeld also said he had "nothing to do" with helping Iraq in its war against Iran. State Department documents show that Rumsfeld's visits to Baghdad contributed to closer US-Iraqi ties. The US was eager to resume diplomatic relations, and Reagan removed Iraq from the State Department terrorism list in February, 1982. In 1988, Rumsfeld cited his ability to make friends with Saddam Hussein as one of his qualifications for a possible run at the presidency. ..:: Cheney's Lies About Halliburton's Deals with Iraq Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense from 1989 to 1993, and was in charge of defense during the the Gulf War. In 1995, having left office, he became Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Corp.. Dick Cheney, who is now Vice-President, claimed in a July 30, 2000, interview on ABC's "This Week," that while he was head of Halliburton, neither Halliburton nor its subsidiaries traded with Iraq. "I had a firm policy that we wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal," he said. "We've not done any business in Iraq since U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, and I had a standing policy that I wouldn't do that." However, a Halliburton spokesman acknowledged that two Halliburton subsidiaries, Dresser Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump, had in fact (legally) traded with Iraq. Cheney revised his statement on the same program three weeks later. Cheney said he was unaware that these subsidiaries were doing business with the Iraq when Halliburton purchased them in September 1998, and that Halliburton divested themselves of these subsidiaries. The divestiture of the subsidiaries took place in late 1999 and early 2000, more than a year after acquisition. Under Cheney, these subsidiaries signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq, and it is highly unlikely that he would not have known of their Iraqi deals. Cheney’s commission on energy policy submitted a 2001 report recommending that the United States "conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq" that includes "military... assessments." whodies.com