Thursday, July 22, 2004
Uncle Dick Cozies Up To Another "Axis Of Evil" Member
First, he was doing business with Saddam Hussein, a man who our president has said very clearly was evil. Now, it seems that in 1996, Dick Cheney lobbied Congress to ease sanctions against another evil nation, Iran.
From Counterpunch:
Vice President Dick Cheney is a bad guy. He can toss around the F-word all he wants in response to the criticism directed at him as a result of his close ties to Halliburton, the company he headed from 1995-2000, but he can't hide from the truth.
It was Cheney who urged Congress in 1996 to ease sanctions against Iran, a country that's part of President Bush's axis of evil, so Halliburton could legitimately do business there.
During a trip to the Middle East in March 1996, Cheney told some U.S. businessmen that Congress should ease sanctions in Iran and Libya to foster better relationships with those countries.
"Let me make a generalized statement about a trend I see in the U.S. Congress that I find disturbing, that applies not only with respect to the Iranian situation but a number of others as well," Cheney said at the time. "I think we Americans sometimes make mistakes...There seems to be an assumption that somehow we know what's best for everybody else and that we are going to use our economic clout to get everybody else to live the way we would like."
The times they sure do change, don't they? Isn't that part in bold basically our justification for invading Iraq???
Lie down with dogs, wake up with...a bad ticker?
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