Cheney faces prosecution: report

[Tinoire]

Cheney faces prosecution: report
December 21, 2003 - 12:05PM

A French official is examining whether to prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro said.

The case stems from a contract by a consortium including the American company Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a Halliburton subsidiary, and a French company, Technip, to supply a gas complex to Nigeria, the newspaper reported.

A Paris investigating magistrate has been conducting investigations since October into allegations that $US180 million ($A243.18 million) was paid in secret commissions during the late 1990s up to 2002 from funds established by the consortium in Madeira, the report said.

Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive between 1995 and 2000.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/21/1071941598014.html

[mbperrin]

1. If there really is an answer to sincere prayer,

this will happen!

[drb]

5. Amen, brother!

Please, Lord, let it be true!!!!

[madrchsod]

2. one of the bush klan`s

financial offices is based in france-can`t run away dickie..

[Razormill]

4. Of course he can..

He won't be subject to any penalties at all...he has squashed Brussel's and the international court Bush and he will use the CIA to "eliminate" any magistrate honest enough to indict him.

Watch for a large cheese wheel gone awry....

[mourningdove92]

3. wow, that would be really awesome to see,

Cheney in chains.....what a dream.
Hmmm, you think the administration will "suddenly" decide that we can be friends again with France?
:evilgrin:

[Wapsie B]

19. What I'd do

is strip he and his family of any and all assets. Make 'em destitute. Kick 'em to the curb. Better yet take away his health insurance coverage. Would accomplish the same thing.

[Thor_MN]

24. and film it for the next reality based series.

Only question is what to do with the money the show would make....

[Manix]

6. ...oh how I wish, but won't happen I'm afraid.

nt

[morgan2]

7. oh man this could be funny

Imagine all the anti-France stuff in the US if they arrested Cheney. That'd be great.

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. Have the Kurds hung up the dates yet?

;)

[PartyPooper]

9. Poor Dick Cheney...He just may need a new pacemaker because of this.

:evilgrin:

[The Zanti Regent]

13. No, he will need a new heart

Chandra's heart is rejecting the evil body it was installed in!

[BiggJawn]

21. Hey, Zanti! That's MY line!

"Why does Dick Cheney's heart skip a beat whenever Gary Condit's name is mentioned?"
:7

[PaDUer]

26. He'll never

see the inside of a courtroom..The entire administration will get away with whatever they do because they've already gotten away with the test run of 2000..And if things get "too hot", they'll throw whoever in jail..If this were Clinton, he'd already be gone..

[roguevalley]

10. go France. someone has to hold up justice some where.

[BiggJawn]

11. Yeah, and there's a Warrant out for Bobby Knight in Puerto Rico, too.

Has been for years. Do you think Bobby worries? Hell, no, Bobby just makes sure his travel plans don't include PR.

So the TinMan doesn't go to France.

Nothing to see here.

[DemoTex]

12. Uses the same travel agent of H. Kissinger.

Works for a while, but gives him cricks in the neck from looking over the shoulder. Eh?

[stevedeshazer]

14. LOL!

That's gotta hurt!

[slinkerwink]

15. oh god yes! let him face prosecution!

[sistersofmercy]

16. Well good, the French are doing what we can seem to do here

unfortunately.

[7th_Sephiroth]

17. ya think, in cheney's case

they will return the guillotine to service?

[bobthedrummer]

18. Roman Polanski lives in France.

weird science.
Cheney is a war profiteer and should be indicted here most of all.

[bushisanidiot]

20. I Think Cheney's Gonna Retire To Give AWOL A Better Shot At "Winning"

he'll be hailed a patriot by other repukes for stepping aside to let another big oil man step in (or big oil woman like condi).

[Deesh]

22. Lord Cheney

More and more, when I see Vice President Cheney's face in the media, he reminds me of the end of GOLDFINGER, and I fantasize him being sucked through the tiny hole of a giant plane somewhere over the ocean...

[LynneSin]

23. Go French cause you know it won't happen in the USA

Cheney could run over an 8 month pregnant woman with a gas guzzling SUV and leave the woman bleed to death and Cheney still won't see a day in court.

Go figure

:cry:

[tom_paine]

25. I'll believe it when I see it...no way the Vice-Emperor is going to submit

If they are above Amerikan Law they certainly are not going to submit to International law.