American Terrorists: Kochs, Cheney, Romney

[kpete]

............ Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers underwriting their "movement," were also in business with Iran. As it turns out, the Kochs are merely following Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney among the Republican luminaries caught up in dirty deals with Tehran.

Twenty four years after Ronald Reagan sent a Bible, a cake and U.S. weapons to the mullahs in Tehran, Bloomberg News reported that, in the words of a former employee, the Koch brothers in likely violation of the American sanctions used "every single chance they had to do business with Iran, or anyone else."

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Halliburton, former Vice President Cheney's old company, provided oil and gas drilling services to Iran through foreign subsidies. After a political furor erupted over the work, the company announced it would do no new business in Iran, and it exited the country altogether in 2007. While still operating in Iran, Halliburton won huge contacts from the federal government, including a no-bid contract to restore Iraq's oil sector, as did its subsidiary at the time, Kellogg Brown & Root.

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Romney joined Boston-based Bain & Co., a management consulting firm, in 1978 and worked there until 1984. He was CEO of Bain Capital, a venture capital firm, from 1984 to 1999, despite a two-year return as Bain & Co.'s chief executive officer from 1991 to 1992. Bain & Co. Italy, described in company literature as "the Italian branch of Bain & Co.," received a $2.3 million contract from the National Iranian Oil Co., in September 2004. Its task was to develop a master plan so NIOC -- the state oil company of Iran -- could become one of the world's top oil companies, according to Iranian and U.S. news accounts of the deal.



MORE (lots of links:
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/koch-brothers-join-gop-iran-sanctions-busters

[KansDem]

1. How these bastards can get away with this kind of treason is beyond belief!

I suppose that's one more reason to own the agency tasked with the responsibility of overseeing this kind of criminal activity...

[midnight]

2. I don't understand these business dealings that are a ok... But

our personal lives need to be monitored because we might be engaging in un American activities?

[aquart]

3. Prosecute the hell out of them but do not bomb Iran.

The last thing we need is to unite that angry, divided country.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. They got away with it because no one knew. Until now. AHEM!

[Mnemosyne]

5. K&R...