Cheney Lobbied Congress to Ease Sanction Against Terrorist Countries While

[Cocoa]

Cheney Lobbied Congress to Ease Sanction Against Terrorist Countries While CEO of Halliburton

http://www.counterpunch.org/leopold07222004.html

Vice President Dick Cheney is a bad guy. He can toss around the F-word all he wants in response to the criticism directed at him as a result of his close ties to Halliburton, the company he headed from 1995-2000, but he can't hide from the truth.

It was Cheney who urged Congress in 1996 to ease sanctions against Iran, a country that's part of President Bush's axis of evil, so Halliburton could legitimately do business there.

During a trip to the Middle East in March 1996, Cheney told some U.S. businessmen that Congress should ease sanctions in Iran and Libya to foster better relationships with those countries.

"Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian situation but a number of others as well," Cheney said at the time. "I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes...There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what's best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like."

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[MaineDem]

1. This man is vile

He deserves a jail cell!

[left is right]

2. make that a dark, dank jail cell with big rats in the corner

[GainesT1958]

3. Of course, once Dick's put in there...

They'll be this big rat in the MIDDLE of that dark, dank cell, too!:D

B-)

[Wednesdays]

4. make that a dark, dank jail cell with big rats in the corner and

some gerbils that can run up his butt.

[alfredo]

5. No

He'd probably like that.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Ohhh. That tickles!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. How about "Thumbs-up" Lyndie England with a six-foot leash?....

Nah...that sick pup would DEFINITELY like that.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Make that big rats in the bed and the toilet.

[MasonJar]

13. Put a few maggots and roaches in for good measure.

[Rebellious Republican]

7. So not easing sanctions against Cuba is different how? Flip Flop...

Cheney told some U.S. businessmen that Congress should ease sanctions in Iran and Libya to foster better relationships with those countries.

"Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian situation but a number of others as well," Cheney said at the time. "I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes...There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what's best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like."

They should be spreading this around the Cuban community in South Florida!

[Myrina]

8. I think the Dems should turn that phrase ...

..."I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes...There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what's best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like."


Hmmmm, Dick ???

[maddezmom]

9. what a f'ing disgusting excuse for a human

:puke:

[gatorboy]

10. Here's a google link from '98 on the story told then:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cheney+iran+Halliburton&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=22&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1999&selm=6j5es7%24li1%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com&rnum=1


US threat of sanctions for dealing with
Iran must end: Cheney

Agence France-Presse
Sun, Apr 19 1998

SYDNEY, April 19 (AFP) - Former US defence
secretary Dick Cheney said here Sunday the United
States should lift its threat of economic sanctions on
companies attempting to do business with Iran.

"I think the US made a mistake in trying to impose a
secondary boycott in effect (on companies doing
business with Iran)," Cheney, now chairman and
chief executive of oil services giant Halliburton Inc.,
said.

Resource leaders such as the Broken Hill Proprietary
Company Ltd. (BHP) should now be allowed to
explore natural gas projects in Iran.

"We used to impose that kind of measure when Arab
governments tried to penalise firms ... that did
business with Israel. It's a bad idea, bad policy," he
told the Nine Network.
"There's enormous damage I think to the US
relationships with some friends around the world and
I think it's wrong.

[Fridays Child]

12. "Cheney, in Australia on business, said it could take 10 years for. ..

...the US to rebuild its relationship with Iran."

He added, "But we could put that relationship on the fast track to success, if we enroll Iran in our soon-to-be-formed "Axis of Evil."

:eyes:

[CO Liberal]

14. Talk About Flip-Flopping.....

:-)