http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8498

As Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, Cheney helped lead a
multinational coalition against Iraq and was one of the architects of
a post-war economic embargo designed to choke off funds to the
country. He insisted the world should "maintain sanctions, at least of
some kind," so Saddam Hussein could not "rebuild the military force
he's used against his neighbors."
But less than six years later, as a private businessman, Cheney
apparently had more important interests than preventing Hussein from
rebuilding his army. While he claimed during the 2000 campaign that,
as CEO of Halliburton, he had "imposed a 'firm policy' against trading
with Iraq," confidential UN records show that, from the first half of
1997 to the summer of 2000, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that
sold more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts
to Iraq while Cheney was in charge. Halliburton acquired its interest
in both firms while Cheney was at the helm, and continued doing
business through them until just months before Cheney was named George
W. Bush's running mate.

Perhaps even more troubling, at the same time Cheney was doing
business with Iraq, he launched a public broadside against sanctions
laws designed to cut off funds to regimes like Iran, which the State
Department listed as a state sponsor of terrorism. In 1998, Cheney
traveled to Kuala Lumpur to attack his own country's terrorism
policies for being too strict. Under the headline, "Former US Defence
Secretary Says Iran-Libya Sanctions Act 'Wrong,'" the Malaysian News
Agency reported that Cheney "hit out at his government" and said
sanctions on terrorist countries were "ineffective, did not provide
the desired results and [were] a bad policy."

Two years later, Cheney traveled to another country to demand America
weaken restrictions on doing business with Iran's petroleum industry,
despite Clinton administration warnings that Iranian oil revenues
could be used to fund terrorism. "We're kept out of [Iran] primarily
by our own government, which has made a decision that U.S. firms
should not be allowed to invest significantly in Iran," he told an oil
conference in Canada. "I think that's a mistake."




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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1028 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless