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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (124089)	1/31/2004 4:57:25 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 281500

The obvious moral dilemmas that arise from doing business with the likes of a Saddam did not seem to put off participants, let alone prick their consciences. Take, for example, France's E-Sat satellite telephone company, whose trade-fair representative told the Associated Press, "We are not here for politics but for pure business." I realize that the following is barely chicken feed compared to either the numbers you have cited or what is going on now, but it was with only about 30 seconds of searching. Maybe I'll spend a little longer tomorrow: Vice President Dick Cheney has told many stories about his time at Halliburton. And even as criticism mounts over Halliburton's treatment of U.S. troops and taxpayers, he continues to say he is proud of the company. "I had a firm policy that I wouldn't do anything in Iraq even arrangements that were supposedly legal. We've not done any business in Iraq since the sanctions were imposed and I had a standing policy that I wouldn't do that." – Dick Cheney, 8/27/00 FACT: "According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms 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 of the Dallas-based company. Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries say that, as far as they knew, there was no policy against doing business with Iraq . One of the executives also says that although he never spoke directly to Cheney about the Iraqi contracts, he is certain Cheney knew about them. The Halliburton subsidiaries joined dozens of American and foreign oil supply companies that helped Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion in 2000. Since the program began, Iraq has exported oil worth more than $40 billion." – WP, 6/23/01 truthout.org