http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01may/may01corp10.html“You’ve got to go where the oil is. I don’t think about it very much,” Cheney told the Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Association annual meeting in 1998. Halliburton’s dealings in six countries –– Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Nigeria –– show that the company’s willingness to do business where human rights are not respected is a pattern that goes beyond its involvement in Burma:
• Azerbaijan. Dick Cheney lobbied to remove Congressional sanctions against aid to Azerbaijan, sanctions imposed because of concerns about ethnic cleansing. Cheney said the sanctions were the result only of groundless campaigning by the Armenian-American lobby. In 1997, Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root bid on a major Caspian project from the Azerbaijan International Operating Company.
• Indonesia. Halliburton had extensive investments and contracts in Suharto’s Indonesia. One of its contracts was canceled by the post-Suharto government during a purging of corruptly awarded contracts. Indonesia Corruption Watch named Kellogg Brown & Root (Halliburton’s engineering division) among 59 companies using collusive, corruptive and nepotistic practices in deals involving former President Suharto’s family.
• Iran. Dick Cheney has lobbied against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. Even with the Act in place, Halliburton has continued to operate in Iran. It settled with the Department of Commerce in 1997, before Cheney became CEO, over allegations relating to Iran for $15,000, without admitting any wrongdoing.
• Iraq. Dick Cheney cites multilateral sanctions against Iraq as an example of sanctions he supports. Yet since the war, Halliburton-related companies helped to reconstruct Iraq’s oil industry. In July 2000, the International Herald Tribune reported, “Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Co., joint ventures that Halliburton has sold within the past year, have done work in Iraq on contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq’s oil industry, under the United Nations’ Oil for Food Program.” A Halliburton spokesman acknowledged to the Tribune that the Dresser subsidiaries did sell oil-pumping equipment to Iraq via European agents. • Libya. Before Cheney’s arrival, Halliburton was deeply involved in Libya, earning $44.7 million there in 1993. After sanctions on Libya were imposed, earnings dropped to $12.4 million in 1994. Halliburton continued doing business in Libya throughout Cheney’s tenure. One Member of Congress accused the company “of undermining American foreign policy to the full extent allowed by law.” ------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.arabia.com/business/article/english/0,,50047,00.html Cheney oil firm had extensive Iraq dealings The US Vice President had offered contradictory accounts of how much he knew about his company's dealings with Iraq
June 24, 2001, 08:11 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- The oilfield services company Dick Cheney headed before he became US vice president had far more extensive financial dealings with Iraq than Cheney has acknowledged, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
G.W.Bush, Dick Cheney
The Oil Men
Citing UN records and oil industry executives, the newspaper said two subsidiaries of Halliburton Co. had contracts to sell $73 million dollars in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and CEO of the Dallas-based company.
The newspaper said, according to UN records, the subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold material to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000. Cheney resigned as chairman of Halliburton in August.
Halliburton's dealings with Iraq were first reported last year. But the Post said UN records it recently obtained show the business was more extensive than originally reported or acknowledged by the vice president.
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http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/031903_cheneys_lies_about_halliburton.htmAs Bombs Drops, Hypocrisy (& Profits) Prevail
Cheney's Lies About Halliburton & Iraq
By Jason Leopold
CounterPunch
March 19, 2003
This is my last ditch effort to show the hypocrisy within President Bush's administration regarding its policies toward Iraq and its President, Saddam Hussein, just as the United States and Britain prepares to invade the country....
....U.S. and European officials have argued that the increase in production also expanded Saddam's ability to use some of that money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces. Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq may be skimming off as much as 10 percent of the proceeds from the oil-for-food program, according to the Post.
During his tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Cheney pushed the U.N. Security Council, after he became vice president; to end an 11-year embargo on sales of civilian goods, including oil related equipment, to Iraq. Cheney has said sanctions against countries like Iraq unfairly punish U.S. companies. U.N. documents show that Halliburton's affiliates have had controversial, dealings with the Iraqi regime during Cheney's tenure at the company. The Clinton administration blocked one of the deals Halliburton was trying to push through. That deal, between Halliburton subsidiary Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. and Iraq, included agreements by the firm to sell $760,000 in spare parts, compressors and firefighting equipment to refurbish an offshore oil terminal, Khor al Amaya.
(this is interesting in that Jason Leopold has been on this story for over a year, and it's now "leaking out" again)
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This is buried on John Kerry's Website:
http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/003180.htmlWhile Cheney Was CEO, Halliburton Partnered With French Company to Do Over $70 Million In Business With Saddam Under Oil-For-Food. Under Cheney’s leadership, Halliburton acquired two subsidiaries which had signed contracts to sell oil production equipment to Iraq under the oil-for-food program. The subsidiaries “sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, U.N. records show.” Halliburton made more than $73 million in deals with Saddam.
Cheney Claimed That Halliburton Divested Interests In Iraq, But Divestiture Happened After Company Made Nearly $30 Million. Responding to questions about the conflicting statements he made concerning Halliburton’s business practices in Iraq, Cheney said Halliburton divested itself of those interests. Halliburton, however, did not divest itself of those companies doing business in Iraq for more than a year under Cheney and after signing nearly $30 million in contracts in Iraq.
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