Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said

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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/oilforfood/2001/0627chen.htm

Halliburton's trade with Iraq was first reported by The Washington Post in February 2000. But U.N. records recently obtained by The Post show that the dealings were more extensive than originally reported and than Vice President Cheney has acknowledged.

As secretary of defense in the first Bush administration, Cheney helped to lead a multinational coalition against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War and to devise a comprehensive economic embargo to isolate Saddam Hussein's government. After Cheney was named in 1995 to head Halliburton, he promised to maintain a hard line against Baghdad.

But in 1998, Cheney oversaw Halliburton's acquisition of Dresser Industries Inc., which exported equipment to Iraq through two subsidiaries of a joint venture with another large U.S. equipment maker, Ingersoll-Rand Co.

The subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., 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. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed contracts -- later blocked by the United States -- to help repair an Iraqi oil terminal that U.S.-led military forces destroyed in the Gulf War.

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1. Just wait 'til they have closed door, double secret probation energy

meetings in Baghdad..... won't the people rejoice in their democracy?

What will happen there much as it has happened here is that Hallibacon and others will become the government by proxy... hold on to your hats, hold on to your wallets, hold on to your chads, hold on Baghdaddies... cuz shrub is gonna make you "free"... free for the taking.

Remember who got Anthrax???


Remember who Cheney threatened if they didn't get off his case???