hundreds of thousands..... here's to you DICK.... people who lose friends and relatives simply do not have a 6 week memory as does the American public.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bush-cheney.htmIn the global wings, U.S. corporations were circling like sharks, waiting
to go in for the kill. For example, in 1965, Freeport Sulfur cut a private deal - with Henry Kissinger reportedly the deal broker - with Indian officials for a share in a proposed gold-copper mining, while Mobile Oil Indonesia entered into a contract with the Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina. Over a dozen other oil companies were waiting for their chance to pounce. All that was needed to complete the scheme was to get rid of Sukarno to avoid the risk of most profits got to the Indonesian people.
The CIA helped Suharto plan and Stage a three-part coup. First, in 1965, all of the left-leaning military leaders were murdered and their deaths blamed on the PKI. Second, by convincing the public and Sukarno that the communists were trying to topple the government, Sukarto got clearance to lead an all-out slaughter of communists. Between 1965-1966 an estimated 500,000 to one million men, women, and children known or suspected of being communists were massacred. Some were murdered in their beds, and a large percentage were killed with U.S.-supplied weapons. "Time" magazine reported during this period that "travelers from
areas tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally clogged with bodies."
In the final step of the coup, Suharto deposed Sukarno. What followed was a feeding frenzy by Suharto, his henchmen and U.S. corporations. Like a warlord, Suharto approriated the best of everything he could for himself and his family - oil wells, timber lands, and sugar plantations. Thousands of acres of land were seized by companies with the blessings of Suharto. Tens of thousands of native people were killed, displaced, or "disappeared" to make way for mining, logging, and drilling operations. The Freeport gold operation Kissinger (see "Bloody Hands Full of Gold") helped orchestrate (and of which he is today the primary stockholder, as well as collecting $500,000 a year as its chief legal rep through his law firm Kissinger Associates) was the first company to be officially licensed after the coup. By 1969, nineteen U.S. oil companies were vying for the rights to the oil beneath Indonesia's coastal waters, while Weyerhaueser, International Paper, and Boise Cascade were hacking down huge tracts of tropical forests in Sumatra as fast as they could hack. Meanwhile, now
that the U.S. had "saved" the Indonesian people from communism, they forced the natives to work in the new factories and industrial operations at an average wage of 10 cents an hour.
http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/041603_halliburton_and_the_dictators.htm
Indonesia. Halliburton had extensive investments and contracts in Suharto's Indonesia. The post-Suharto government during a purging of corruptly awarded contracts canceled one of its 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.commondreams.org/headlines/100500-01.htm
''Halliburton partners and subsidiaries, both before and during Dick Cheney's tenure as CEO, have been contractors for pipeline projects that have led to crimes against humanity in Burma,'' says Katie Redford, a human rights lawyer with EarthRights.
The military government in Burma, also known as Myanmar, has long been considered one of the world's most abusive regimes. The United States and the European Union have imposed economic sanctions against the country due to the military's human rights abuses.
The regime is holding Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose political party swept national elections 10 years ago with more than 80 percent of the vote, under house arrest.
With western countries blocking substantial economic assistance from the World Bank and other multilateral financial institutions, the regime has been forced to rely on foreign investment in order to earn hard currency.
Two such investment projects are the Yadana and Yetagun pipelines. The 1.2 billion-dollar Yadana pipeline will pump natural gas from off- shore fields in the Andaman Sea through Burma to Thailand. Construction began in 1992 and was completed last year.
Lawyers with EarthRights have gathered testimony from more than 100 villagers and several alleged army deserters who claimed to be victims or witnesses of abuses related to the army's security operations in the pipeline.
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