To: Road Walker who wrote (182893 ) 2/17/2004 9:31:18 PM From: hmaly Read Replies (1) | Respond to John Re...http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact The deals occurred under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, at a time when Saddam Hussein chose which companies his government would work with. Saddam chose Dressler for the deals, Cheney didn't. In the case of Iraq, Halliburton legally evaded U.S. sanctions by conducting its oil-service business through foreign subsidiaries that had once been owned by Dresser. In the second paragraph there are these lines. But, under Cheney’s watch, two foreign subsidiaries of Dresser sold millions of dollars’ worth of oil services and parts to Saddam’s regime. The transactions were not illegal, but they were politically suspect. The deals occurred under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, at a time when Saddam Hussein chose which companies his government would work with. Compare the two statements. In the first, he tries to claim the sales were illegal under US sanctions, except they were done from a foreign subsidiary; in the second, the same deal was a perfectly legal deal under the food for oil program. Does that make any sense to you? Then the author tries to say the deal was corrupt, because Saddam had bribed France and Russia etc.; but he offers no proof that Saddam offered any bribe to Dresser or Halburton, and he offers no proof, Cheney knew of the bribes, when the deals were made. Those are garbage charges. And you guys want to accuse Cheney of being crooked, because of hack jobs like this?
