Cheney Once Pushed to Lift Iran Sanctions

[Kadie]

Cheney Once Pushed to Lift Iran Sanctions
Cheney Pushed to Lift U.S. Trade Sanctions Against Iran While Chairman of Halliburton in 1990s

The Associated Press


WASHINGTON Oct. 8, 2004 — Vice President Dick Cheney, who has called Iran "the world's leading exporter of terror," pushed to lift U.S. trade sanctions against Tehran while chairman of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s. And his company's offshore subsidiaries also expanded business in Iran.

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards criticized Cheney in Tuesday night's debate for his position on Iran during the 1990s, and Edwards said he supports expanding the sanctions against Iran.

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At an energy industry conference in 1996, Cheney said sanctions were the greatest threat to Halliburton and other American oil-related companies trying to expand overseas.

"We seem to be sanction-happy as a government," Cheney said. "The problem is that the good Lord didn't see fit to always put oil and gas resources where there are democratic governments."

more...
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041008_126.html

[whistle]

1. Is the UN Oil for Food Report valid?

....How much fraud was actually taking place and was it really out-of-control to the extent that the RW pundits are saying?

[sandnsea]

2. Should have been the story

This was so much more important than Cheney lied about meeting Edwards. I guess that's simple enough for everybody to understand though. I really expected to hear more about Cheney's views on sanctions.

[peacetalksforall]

3. What was God thinking when...

he created nations that would be so pompous that they would think they could place sanctions on the people of any country they wanted to anytime they wanted to and convince other countries to join them or even paid countries for the favor of joining them.

God save us from the leaders of his people.

[sandnsea]

4. I do it

I put sanctions on people all the time. There's a guy in our town who preys on teen-age girls, I don't do business with him. I don't do business with Wal-mart. So what's wrong with our country not doing business with other countries that are violating human rights or are otherwise not civil trading partners? In general, not specific to any particular country today.

[peacetalksforall]

5. Why? The people suffer when it's a sanction on a country.

Our motives for placing sanctions on a country have not always been warranted and have often been political because of the effect on profits for some corporations. We have always been the leader in doing it and knowing now what we didn't know before about the true rational behind similar actions, we may have unjustly mistreated many people.

I don't think we placed any sanctions on Hitler judging from the history that is coming out about the business relationships of people like Prescott Bush and many other entities.

You're going one on one with one business person which may not affect little people. And us not going to Wal-Mart may not cause their employees to lose their jobs.

The U.N. always seem to make sure that the little people don't starve, but the longer the embargo, the longer the people hold, stop, or go backwards in their economical development and some lose plenty. And they are innocent.

The little people are usually not the ones violating human rights.

If unwarranted, an embargo inhibits the number 1 or 2 top-grossing industry in many countries - tourism. That's one industry that many little people live off of.

So, perhaps I should add the words 'politically unwarranted' before the word 'sanction' to make my point more clearly.

And I may oversimplify...

I believe in children first.

I believe in the little people parents of the children next.

I shrink in horror at what some leaders and some powerful nations do to them.

[sandnsea]

6. Hey

that guy that I boycott in my town, he's got kids. I'm still not doing business with him. "politically unwarranted" That's why I said not any specific situation, just the principal of sanctions in general. I think it's a good one. Because when we do do business with countries with monsters in control, the left turns around and says we're propping up dictators just for the profit. So it's not that simple. We need to have honest foreign policy, that's what he need.