Cheney's Halliburton deals with Iraq while still CEO

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Cheney had been plotting ways to get at Iraqi oil fields before 911 happened, namely around March, 2001 when Cheney help the secret meeting "Cheney Energy Task Force".

He is being sued by the fairly right-leaning Judicial Watch to hand over the documents used in the meetings as well as who was there. Add that Cheney then set up no-bid secret contracts with Halliburton getting the full profits from the war reconstruction.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.b_PR.shtml

What's even more troubling is that Cheney was still CEO when Halliburton was setting up contracts with Iraq during a time when it was declared illegal during the embargo.

Snip:

During last year's presidential campaign, Cheney said Halliburton did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries, but maintained he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.

"Iraq's different," the Post quoted him as saying.

Oil industry executives and confidential U.N. records showed, however, that Halliburton held stakes in two companies that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer, the Post reported.

Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries said they knew of no policy against dealing with Iraq. One of them said he was certain Cheney knew about the deals, though he had never spoken about them to the vice president directly.

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Both sites are generally right-leaning, so any yammering that the sites are "democrat" is bogus.