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Originally posted by directfiesta
There is a second article, but I also get " refused"....
Do you think Dick Cheney already got to this?????
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Got Dick to stop fucking with my Info... lol
"Published on Sunday, September 15, 2002 in the lndependent/UK
Fortunes of War Await Bush's Circle After Attacks on Iraq
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
The last time the United States went to war against Iraq, Dick Cheney did very nicely from it.
Having served as Defense Secretary, and basked in the reflected glory of the US military's surprisingly rapid advance across the desert sands to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, he then managed to reap benefits of a very different kind once the war was over and he left government to become chief executive of Halliburton, the Texas-based oil services company.
When the United Nations relaxed its sanctions regime in 1998 and permitted Iraq to buy spare parts for its oil fields, it was Halliburton, under Mr Cheney's leadership, that cleaned up on the contract to repair war damage and get Saddam Hussein's oil pipes flowing at full capacity again. Two Halliburton subsidiaries did business worth almost $24m (£15m) with the man whom these days Mr Cheney calls a "murderous dictator" and "the world's worst leader".
Since taking over as George Bush's vice-president, Mr Cheney has severed all formal ties with his former employer, notably when he cashed in $36m in stock options and other benefits at the height of the market in August 2000. But Halliburton ? currently struggling with a corporate accounting scandal that may or may not implicate Mr Cheney ? could profit all over again if the much-threatened new war against Iraq comes to pass ..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0915-04.htm