Cheney Implicates Self
So the Comprehensive WMD Report came out a few days ago, showing that "Saddam Hussein's government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991". In a recent interview:
The vice president said the report concluded that the United Nations' oil-for-food program "was totally corrupted by Saddam Hussein. There were suggestions employees of the United Nations were part of the scheme as well."
"As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back" to his weapons program, Cheney said.
"The suggestion is clearly there by Mr. Duelfer that Saddam had used the program in such a way that he had bought off foreign governments and was building support among them to take the sanctions down"
However one of the major collaborators in the oil for food program was Halliburton, whose CEO was Dick Cheney:
Millions of dollars of US oil business with Iraq are being channelled discreetly through European and other companies...
Halliburton, the largest US oil services company, is among a significant number of US companies that have sold oil industry equipment to Iraq since the UN relaxed sanctions two years ago.
From 1995 until August this year [2000] Halliburton's chief executive officer was Dick Cheney, US secretary of defense during the Gulf war and now Republican vice-presidential running mate of George W.Bush.
From September 1998 until it sold its stake last February, Halliburton owned 51 per cent of Dresser-Rand. It also owned 49 per cent of Ingersoll-Dresser Pump, until its sale in December 1999. During the time of the joint ventures, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump submitted more than $23.8m worth of contracts for the sale of oil industry parts and equipment to Iraq. Their combined total amounted to more than any other US company; the vast majority was approved by the sanctions committee.
So now Cheney's new new reason for the war is apparently that Saddam was trying start up a WMD program after lifting sanctions by corrupting the oil-for-food program with Cheney and his company.
Bizarre.
The vice president said the report concluded that the United Nations' oil-for-food program "was totally corrupted by Saddam Hussein. There were suggestions employees of the United Nations were part of the scheme as well."
"As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back" to his weapons program, Cheney said.
"The suggestion is clearly there by Mr. Duelfer that Saddam had used the program in such a way that he had bought off foreign governments and was building support among them to take the sanctions down"
However one of the major collaborators in the oil for food program was Halliburton, whose CEO was Dick Cheney:
Millions of dollars of US oil business with Iraq are being channelled discreetly through European and other companies...
Halliburton, the largest US oil services company, is among a significant number of US companies that have sold oil industry equipment to Iraq since the UN relaxed sanctions two years ago.
From 1995 until August this year [2000] Halliburton's chief executive officer was Dick Cheney, US secretary of defense during the Gulf war and now Republican vice-presidential running mate of George W.Bush.
From September 1998 until it sold its stake last February, Halliburton owned 51 per cent of Dresser-Rand. It also owned 49 per cent of Ingersoll-Dresser Pump, until its sale in December 1999. During the time of the joint ventures, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump submitted more than $23.8m worth of contracts for the sale of oil industry parts and equipment to Iraq. Their combined total amounted to more than any other US company; the vast majority was approved by the sanctions committee.
So now Cheney's new new reason for the war is apparently that Saddam was trying start up a WMD program after lifting sanctions by corrupting the oil-for-food program with Cheney and his company.
Bizarre.