Stop the ABC PRESS!!! There are bigger fish to fry.
Seems Halliburton has been helping Iran with it's nuclear technology, which would help them get the bomb. My feeling is so then the Bush administration would have to engage Iran, we have a war, and Halliburton scores even more rebuilding contracts.
This thinking is not outside the realm of possibilities, but facts on the table are this:
Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries, ie their Cayman Island subsidiary, to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
Source and such past the fold:
Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran's Nuclear Team
by Jason Leopold
http://www.commondreams.org/...
Okay, before you read this, this was just brought to my attention. This is the same: Karl Rove will be indicted within 24 hours, no really!!! dude from last fall. I hope he has better sources this time. Thanks khereva for that catch.
Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran's top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials' oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies' business dealings.
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Now comes word that Halliburton, which has a long history of flouting U.S. law by conducting business with countries the Bush administration said has ties to terrorism, was working with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies, on oil development projects in Tehran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran's nuclear development team.
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Halliburton first started doing business in Iran as early as 1995, while Vice President Cheney was chief executive of the company and in possible violation of U.S. Sanctions According to a February 2001 report in the Wall Street Journal, "Halliburton Products & Services Ltd. works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is "non-American." But, like the sign over the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the company's name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world." Moreover, mail sent to the company's offices in Tehran and the Cayman Islands is forwarded to the company's Dallas headquarters.
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The SEC letters are aimed at forcing corporations to disclose their profits from business dealings rogue nations. Oil companies, such as Devon Energy Corp., ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. that currently conduct business with countries that sponsor terrorism, have not disclosed the profits received from terrorist countries in their most recent quarterly reports because the companies don't consider the earnings "material."
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That last paragraph is a whopper. We have several companies conducting business with countries that sponsor terrorism? And they simply brush that aside by saying those earnings are not material??? And Cheney, who is drumbeating for a war with Iran, did business with Iran in 1995?
My god, let's all stop the ABC movie zeitgeist for a few minutes and look into this. I mean, my god, the hits just keep on coming.