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Dick Cheney -
The United States Vice President has been in politics since the Nixon years, except for a few years when Bill Clinton held the reigns. During the late nineties Cheney was CEO of Halliburton Holding Company, where fortunes increased markedly under his stewardship. There is some concern that alot of this business There are still a few question marks hanging over his years there, in relation to the disposal of an insurance company that was about to get whacked by asbestos claims, and the acquisition of another company (Dresser) which subsequently got stung by asbestos-related claims.

* United States Vice President [Republican] 2000 -
* Earns US $36M in 2000 at Halliburton (retirement package)
* CEO of Halliburton Holding Company 1995 - August 2000
* Secretary of Defense in the Bush Snr Government 1989 - 1993
    [Operation Just Cause in Panama, Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait]
* U.S. Congressman, Wyoming 1978 -
* White House Chief of Staff 1975 - 1976
* Assistant to Donald Rumsfeld. 1969

IRAQ WAR: BITE #6

<<According to [U.S. Vice President] Dick Cheney's 2003 tax returns, his Halliburton paycheck last year was $178,437. His vice president's paycheck was $198,600...

Instead of promoting competition, the Administration is giving contractors monopolies over huge sectors of the reconstruction effort. One company - Halliburton - gets all work related to oil reconstruction in southern Iraq... >> Nation April 2004 

PEOPLE
	George Bush Jnr	U.S. President 2000-
	Halliburton Holding Company	Dick Cheney was CEO 1996-1998, 2000.
	quote	Oh my " I think that the proposition of going to Baghdad is also fallacious. I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force because I do not believe he would wait in the Presidential Palace for us to arrive. I think we'd have had to hunt him down. And once we'd done that and we'd gotten rid of Saddam Hussein and his government, then we'd have had to put another government in its place... What kind of government? Should it be a Sunni government or Shi'i government or a Kurdish government or Ba'athist regime? Or maybe we want to bring in some of the Islamic fundamentalists? How long would we have had to stay in Baghdad to keep that government in place? What would happen to the government once U.S. forces withdrew? How many casualties should the United States accept in that effort to try to create clarity and stability in a situation that is inherently unstable?.. I think it is vitally important for a President to know when to use military force. I think it is also very important for him to know when not to commit U.S. military force. And it's my view that the President got it right both times, that it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq." Dick Cheney, April 29, 1991
	weapons of mass destruction	" Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated. This is a very significant development." Dick Cheney, April 29, 1991
	US energy demand	"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." Cheney May 2001 move on
	war as a humanitarian response	At the time, we did not know that while Cheney headed the company, Halliburton had done business with the notorious Yadana pipeline project in Burma – an environmentally damaging project on behalf of which, according to a U.S. federal court, egregious human rights abuses were committed, including murder, torture, rape, forced labor and forced relocation. Earth Rights October 2000 PDF
	the decision	" But Bush seems to have needed little persuasion or squeezing by Rumsfeld or by Cheney, who took part in the 1991 decision to let Saddam survive and who is known to believe that this is a rare chance in public life to correct a serious mistake." Seattle PI March 21, 2003
	rebuilding iraq	The agency almost always awards American companies a large portion of its contracts, but international criticism erupted after recent news reports that the USAID had limited the selection process for the biggest contracts to a handful of huge U.S. multinational firms, some of which are well connected to the Bush administration. Those firms include a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., the company once headed by Vice President Cheney. Washington Post March 21, 2003
	iranian threat	Does this sound familiar? "Asked about Iran, and its support for terrorism, Cheney said the current government has been a major source of state-sponsored terrorism and is "actively working trying to acquire ballistic missile technology, as well as nuclear weapons themselves... But our argument with Iran is not with the Iranian people," he said. "What we find is, I think, that the potential exists that underneath that regime that — whose policies we find so objectionable, there is a growing body of opinion on the part of the Iranian people that favors and supports democracy, that wants to build a good relationship with the United States, that believes in opening to the West."" US Dept of State August 2002
	industry	" Americans have long been aware that corporate money has consistently corrupted domestic policy in favor of corporate interests, and that both parties are in thrall to huge corporate campaign donors... We are less accustomed to connecting the dots when it comes to foreign policy. But there is no more evidence that corporations pay attention to anything other than profits in their foreign dealings than they do in their domestic deals... No one is ever going to argue that Saddam Hussein is a good guy, but Dick Cheney is not the right man to make the case against him. I have never understood why the Washington press corps cannot remember anything for longer than 10 minutes, but hearing Cheney denounce Saddam is truly "Give us a break" time." Molly Ivins, Star Telegram Sepetmber 5, 2002
	rebuilding iraq	" The Bush administration has never shied away from flaunting its business credentials. But the news that Halliburton, which used to be run by Dick Cheney, is in line for a slice of a $900m (£560m) contract from the American government, now co-run by Dick Cheney, to start rebuilding Iraq raises questions that need to be answered... That Mr Cheney left the top job at a multinational for a lessor role in a larger enterprise, America, is not the problem. The issue is whether the sensitive policy of war and peace has been bent to suit the interests of US business, especially those with close ties to the Bush administration. Randeep Ramesh, Guardian March 13, 2003
	rebuilding iraq	More a nationalist than an imperialist, he cannot be accused of dragging America into Iraq this time for oil. There is plenty of evidence to suggest weapons of mass destruction are his primary concern. However, Mr Cheney's America First policy may well ensure US companies will exploit Iraqi oil for the "benefit" of its liberated people. Randeep Ramesh, Guardian March 13, 2003
	send in the troops	" I am convinced that calling up a quarter of a million reservists played a very significant role in all of that as well; that it served not only to give us the capability we needed to undertake the deployment, but also triggered support all around the country, because every community, every state, and millions of families were affected by that decision to commit the forces, and they understood immediately what was at stake." Dick Cheney, April 29, 1991

External links:
dick cheney - vice presidential website
Halliburton press release - 1 February 2000 "Dick Cheney Resumes Role as Chairman of Halliburton Company"
who is dick cheney? - at moveon.org.