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From: kf_lists at secnetops.com (KF_lists)
Subject: Slightly off-topic: www.georgewbush.com

And to sum this all up... its fine for you all to STFU and take this 
thread to your private mail spools.

Unless you are telling us about how Halliburton uses QPOP exploits to 
root the UN... NO ONE CARES!@@#

Until Dick Cheney can type cc -o shutthefuckup shutthefuckup.c; 
./shutthefuckup    I would suggest that you do the same.


NOW go away!

-KF

Dean Brooks wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:23:08AM -0500, Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> 
> 
>>Meanwhile, Cheney was busy developing Halliburton's business in other 
>>parts of the world. "It is a false dichotomy that we have to choose 
>>between our commercial and other interests," he told the [public policy 
>>research foundation] Cato Institute in 1998, speaking out against 
>>economic sanctions levied by the Clinton administration against 
>>countries suspected of terrorist activity. "Our government has become 
>>sanctions-happy," he continued.
>>
>>In particular, Cheney objected to sanctions against Libya and Iran, two 
>>countries with which Halliburton was already doing business regardless. 
>>Even more disconcerting, though, was the work the company did in Iraq. 
>>Between his stints as secretary of defence and vice-president, Cheney 
>>was in charge of Halliburton when it was circumventing strict UN 
>>sanctions, helping to rebuild Iraq and enriching Saddam Hussein.
> 
> 
> Cheney was CEO of Halliburton in the private sector prior to his
> vice-presidency.  He had previously left government work to be in the
> private sector, when Bush asked him if he would be his running mate
> due to his experience in government.
> 
> He decided to do so, gave up his post as CEO and does not play any
> executive or board role in the company.  He has stock options in
> the company, but no differently than any other person who leaves
> a high ranking role, or who privately owns stock in a public company.
> He even pledged to give after-tax proceeds from the stock options
> to charity.
> 
> There seems to be this great conspiracy theory about Cheney, but people
> who adhere to that theory rarely seem to check the facts and realize
> that Cheney was NOT in a government role when Bush asked him to be
> his running mate.  He closed his ties to the company at the time he
> returned to office.
> 
> The Oil for Food program, however, was truly a scandal.  There would
> never have been ANY situation where Germany or France would have voted
> to approve the war.  No matter how badly Iraq would have been
> violating sanctions (which they were doing for years), there would
> have been nothing Bush could have done to convince them, since they
> were in bed with Iraq financially and were essentially bribed.
> 
> --
> Dean Brooks
> dean@...ou.com
> 
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