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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (29286)	6/7/2004 3:17:18 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 81568

Taken from democraticunderground.com Cheney/Haliburton/Iraq War profiteering scandal(with links o' plenty) Here is a list of sources for the Cheney/Haliburton/Iraq war profiteering scam- for your files, flyers, emails or reading pleasure... thanks to all my DU pals who helped me compile this on this thread: democraticunderground.com “During last year's presidential campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq. "Iraq's different," he said. 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.” “Cheney has offered contradictory accounts of how much he knew about Halliburton's dealings with Iraq. In a July 30, 2000, interview on ABC-TV's "This Week," he denied that Halliburton or its subsidiaries traded with Baghdad.” Read more in this story that originally appeared in the Washington Post - globalpolicy.org “Cheney, intentionally or inadvertently, went against his own edicts in order to pad his company's profits. He told Sam Donaldson in August 2000 that, as the head of Halliburton, "I had a firm policy that I wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal." And yet, as the Financial Times eventually proved, Cheney oversaw $23.8 million in sales to Iraq in 1998 and 1999.” Read more: salon.com “Of course, U.S. firms aren't generally supposed to do business with Saddam Hussein. But thanks to legal loopholes large enough to steer an oil tanker through, Halliburton profited big-time from deals with the Iraqi dictatorship.” Read more: sfbg.com “Despite repeatedly claiming his company would not do business with Iraq — he was defense secretary during the Persian Gulf War — Halliburton racked up $23.8 million in sales to Iraq in '98 and '99.” Read more: workingforchange.com “Today, 70% of Halliburton's business is outside the U.S. Among the contracts that the company has gained abroad during Cheny's tenure are two with Baghdad! That's right - the U.S. official who oversaw the destruction of Iraq's oil production capability in 1991 has since been doing business with that nasty old Saddam to rebuild that country's oil-production capability.” Read more: loper.org “In an August 2000 report, the Center for Public Integrity noted that Mr. Cheney had said that the United States should lift restrictions on American corporations in countries listed by the government as sponsoring terrorism.” Read more: commondreams.org Millions of dollars of US oil business with Iraq are being channelled discreetly through European and other companies, in a practice that has highlighted the double standards now dominating relations between Baghdad and Washington after a decade of crippling sanctions. Though legal, leading US oil service companies such as Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Flowserve, Fisher-Rosemount and others, have used subsidiaries and joint venture companies for this lucrative business, so as to avoid straining relations with Washington and jeopardising their ties with President Saddam Hussein's government in Baghdad. truthout.org