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CHENEY PROFITS FROM IRAQ DEALS

by Robin Hood

EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT
By Martin Mann
December 18, 2000

While denouncing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Dick Cheney secretly has been cutting deals behind the scenes with the
"outlaw" Mideast country.
Campaigning for the presidency, Gov. George W. Bush has urged the "rollback" of so-called "rogue states"-a thinly veiled
commitment to arrange the overthrow or the assissination of Iraqu President Saddam Hussein. but behind the scenes his

running mate, Richard Cheney, has made millions in under-the-table business deals with this blacklisted Arab government.
A confidential survey by the UN Sanctions Committee of Western corporations suspected of having evaded the harsh
economic embargo imposed on Iraq after the Gulf war recently noted that before being named as the Republican
vice-presidential candidate, Cheney served as chairman and CEO of Haliburton, the world's largest petroleum engineering
outfit.
The report revealed that on Cheney's orders Halliburton bought a controlling interest in two smaller European oil-service
firms, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump, in the early fall of 1998.
Cheney then used these overseas front companies as a covert conduit to sell Saddam Hussein more than $50 million worth of
oil exploration and pumping equipment.
The discovery that the number two man of the GOP presidential team, whose hard-line foreign-policy advisers such as
Richard Perle want to issue U.S. weaons to opposition groups plotting to murder the Iraqi president, is surreptiously in business
with the leader he publicly denounces as an "evil dictator" comes at a time when Saddam Hussein appears to be turning the
tables on his enemies.
"In a time of sky-high gasoline prices, people are more aware than ever of the need for uninterrupted energy supplies from
the oil-rich Gulf," said petroleum analyst Lee Ambrose. "What they don't know is that Iraq is still America's second-largest
provider of Gulf oil-and now Saddam has turned off the spigot."
In the view of experts, the suffocating economic embargo clamped on Iraq is unraveling rapidly. In the UN Security Council,
France, Russia and China now openly oppose it, and recently Secretary General Kofi Annan has begun to talk of the need to
"loosen" the stranglehold of these onerous sanctions.
The Kingdom of Jordan, whose "moderation" is financed by hefty CIA subsidies, has recently joined other Arab states in
initiating regularly-scheduled passenger flights to Baghdad in defiance of the UN's prohibition.
Syria and Iraq, bitter enemies for 20 years, have recently decided to renew their long-interrupted diplomatic and commercial
relations.
"Hussein has survived the war waged against it by the elder Bush," said Ambrose. "He will likely survive the next U.S.
administration, whether Bush the younger or Gore happens to head it."

Posted on Dec 13, 2000, 4:28 PM

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