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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-04 03:21 PM
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Why did Cheney attack America's anti-terror laws as being too strict???
Edited on Thu Sep-16-04 03:47 PM by LynnTheDem
WHY are cheney & bush such total idiotic dipsticks?

Perhaps even more troubling, at the same time Cheney was doing business with Iraq, he launched a public broadside against sanctions laws designed to cut off funds to regimes like Iran, which the State Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. In 1998, Cheney traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attack his own country's terrorism policies for being too strict. Under the headline, "Former US Defence Secretary Says Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 'Wrong,'" the Malaysian News Agency reported that Cheney "hit out at his government" and said sanctions on terrorist countries were "ineffective, did not provide the desired results and a bad policy."

Two years later, Cheney traveled to another country to demand America weaken restrictions on doing business with Iran's petroleum industry, despite Clinton administration warnings that Iranian oil revenues could be used to fund terrorism.

"We're kept out of primarily by our own government, which has made a decision that U.S. firms should not be allowed to invest significantly in Iran," he told an oil conference in Canada. "I think that's a mistake."

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8498

No...YOU'RE a mistake, cheney.

Edited link, should work now.
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JohnnyCougar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-16-04 03:23 PM
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1. hmmm...seems like a bad link
interesting though...
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