Vice President Richard B. "Dick" Cheney
In October of 1995, Dick Cheney became president and chief executive officer of the Halliburton Company in Dallas, Texas.
Cheney claimed
that Halliburton supported the U.S. sanctions on Iraq, but the Financial Times
of London
reported that through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates, Halliburton became
the biggest oil contractor
for Iraq, selling more than $73 million in goods and services to Saddam Hussein's
regime.
Dick Cheney's 2000 income from Halliburton was $36,086,635.
After the
2003 Iraq War, The Bush-Cheney Administration awarded a massive
"no-bid" contract for extinguishing oil fires in Iraq to a subsidiary
of Halliburton, Inc.
The Houston firm's oil industry assistance in Iraq is only part of the more
than $600 million
in military work received by Halliburton in connection with the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
As the Army's sole provider of troop support services, Halliburton has received
work orders
totaling more than $500 million under a 10-year contract with no spending ceiling.
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Estimated
value of Gulf War II contracts awarded
by the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers
to Halliburton Co., whose former CEO is Vice President Dick Cheney: $1.7
billion
Estimated
value of Gulf War II contracts awarded to Bechtel Group, Inc.,
Halliburton's chief competitor: $680 million
-Time Magazine, September 8, 2003.
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Dick Cheney as a US Congressman
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Voted Against Clean Water: Cheney voted to sustain President Reagan's veto of the Clean Water Act
Voted Against Clean Air: Cheney voted to postpone sanctions against clean air violators
Voted Against Community
Right To Know: Cheney voted against an amendment to
require oil, chemical and other polluting facilities to report on their toxic
emissions.
Voted Against Citizens'
Rights to Sue Polluters: Cheney voted against an amendment to
allow citizens to sue in federal court if they were harmed by pollution from
abandoned toxic waste sites.
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One of Halliburton's
subsidiaries is a responsible party at the Tri-State Mining District Superfund
toxic clean-up site in southwestern Missouri. The site contains lead and zinc
contamination.
The Halliburton
facility in Duncan, Oklahoma is in the top 20% for dirtiest
facilities in the United States, according to EPA data from 1997.
Dick
Cheney and the Saudis
Dick and Lynne Cheney, with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
"Saudi
Arabia supports our enemies and attacks our allies. The Saudis are active at
every level
of the terror chain, from planner to financiers, from cadre to foot soldier,
from ideologist to cheerleader."
- Laurent Murawiec, analyst for the RAND Corporation
Of the 19 hijackers aboard
the four jetliners, 15 were Saudi citizens.
Dick Cheney and the US War vs. Iraq
Papers dated
March 2001 (two months before the Cheney energy task force completed and
announced its report on the administration's energy needs and agenda), showed
that Cheney's
task force had interest in Iraq's oil industry, including which foreign companies
were pursuing
business there. The papers included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields, terminals
and pipelines,
as well as a list titled "Foreign Suitors of Iraqi Oilfield Contracts."
The papers also included
a detailed map of oil fields and pipelines in Saudi Arabia and in the United
Arab Emirates, and
a list of oil and gas development projects in those countries.
"Simply
stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
- Dick Cheney, August 26 2002
In an interview
for the coming issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz,
a leading proponent of the war in Iraq, cast some doubt on whether administration
officials
were convinced that Iraq had secret stocks of nerve gas and anthrax, or whether
they merely
seized on the issue as a way to muster public and political support for the
war.
"The truth is that, for reasons that have a lot to do with
the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled
on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction
as the core reason,"
Wolfowitz said, according to a text of the interview released by the Pentagon.
-May 31,2003.
"Vice
President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over
the past year to question analysts studying
Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment
in which some analysts felt they were being
pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy
objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.
Former and current intelligence officials said they felt a continual drumbeat,
not only from Cheney and Libby, but also from
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Feith, and less so from CIA Director
George J. Tenet, to find information
or write reports in a way that would help the administration make the case that
going into Iraq was urgent."
- Washington Post,
June 5, 2003
"The
great mass of people ... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a
small one."
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
War Pigs
Generals
gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!
Politicians
hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.
Time will
tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.
Now in darkness
world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, God is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercies for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh lord, yeah!
- Black Sabbath
Dick Cheney and his "Energy Task Force"
"A
nine-judge federal appeals court in D.C. rebuffed Vice President Dick Cheney
(6-3), refusing to
intervene in a lawsuit delving into the role of business execs and industry
lobbyists in formulating
the Bush administration's energy plan in 2001.
Cheney and his energy task force have been ordered to turn over documents to
the conservative
group Judicial Watch and the environmental group Sierra Club.
Cheney, citing the president's need for confidentiality, had sought a rehearing
from the appeals judges.
-September 2003
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"These
are matters that do not need to be discussed in public in ways that
embarass or humiliate the government or the defense, and particularly the court."
- U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt, on why he closed several hearings of ENRON
executives to the media
-Time, September 8, 2003
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