Doing Business With The Enemy

[dArKeR]

Nowhere is the issue more acute than in New York City, where William Thompson, the city's comptroller, discovered that municipal workers, including police and firefighters who lost hundreds of their own in the terror attacks of 9/11, own nearly a billion dollars worth of stock in three companies with operations in Iran and Syria.

These are nations the U.S. State Department identifies as state sponsors of terrorism. The companies include Halliburton and General Electric.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/22/60minutes/main595214.shtml

[Occulus]

1. I wonder if this will blow up

in these companies' faces.

[salin]

2. This will make for an interesting 60 minutes program

they have been doing some very interesting stories.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Wow. Thanks for the information

on tomorrow's 60 Minutes.

I hope multitudes of Americans will hear every word, and that the program nails them GOOD.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. They need to bring up that Halliburton under Cheney...

...did business with Iraq during the mid 90's, also.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/02.03E.Hallib.Iraq.htm

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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.

Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries say that, as far as they knew, there was no policy against doing business with Iraq. One of the executives also says that although he never spoke directly to Cheney about the Iraqi contracts, he is certain Cheney knew about them.
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[RedSock]

5. remember

"you are either with us or with the terrorists"

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the bfee is with the terrorists ...