-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "redflag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cheney a Good Choice for Capitalism Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:22 PM THE PEOPLE SEPTEMBER 2000 VOL. 110 NO. 6 DICK CHENEY A PERFECT V.P. CHOICE^KFOR CAPITALISM BY DIANE SECOR Why was Dick Cheney selected to be George W. Bush's running mate? He is not just a close, trusted friend of the Bush clan, a loyal Republican or a recycled secretary of defense. Cheney has served a broad cross section of capitalist interests in government and industry. According to the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), Cheney is on the boards of several major corporations having extensive international business ties. Most significant among these is his position as "CEO of Halliburton Co., a $9 billion oil services firm based in Dallas," which does "business in at least 100 countries." Most of that business is in oil and construction contracts. As secretary of defense during the Bush administration, Cheney led the charge in defense of American oil interests in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. However, his service to U.S. capitalism and its political state did not end when he left office in 1992. As CEO of Halliburton since 1995, Cheney has made himself useful to the Democratic Clinton-Gore administration's war and "peacekeeping" effort in the Balkans. According to the company Web site, for example, its subsidiary Brown & Root Services has had major Pentagon contracts for "base camp construction" and other military projects in "Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Albania, Croatia, Greece and Italy." Another bipartisan capitalist cause that Cheney has championed is U.S. oil interests in the Caspian Sea region. He has cultivated close relations with governments and investors in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, which are the gatekeepers to many of the multibillion-dollar Caspian petroleum-related contracts. The CPI reported that "along with the heads of Chevron and Texaco Inc., Cheney sits on Kazakhstan's Oil Advisory Board" to Kazakhstan's president. In addition, Cheney reportedly "lobbied in favor of a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan to Tyumen Oil," a Russian company that "hired Halliburton to upgrade the giant Samotlor field in the Caspian region." These international political and economic connections will win the Bush-Cheney ticket support among American capitalists who are concerned about protecting their holdings in Russia and elsewhere. The Republican Bush-Cheney team has promised a new administration free of scandal. In this regard, Cheney brings some risks to the ticket. Under Cheney's leadership, for example, Halliburton has had commercial dealings with Iraq and Libya designed to circumvent U.S.-imposed embargoes against these two "rogue states" or "states of concern." According to Colum Lynch, Halliburton had "a major stake in Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump Co., two American players in the reconstruction of Iraq's oil industry." (THE WASHINGTON POST, Feb. 20) As the United States and Britain continue their bombing of Iraq's northern and southern "no fly" zones, U.S. firms such as Halliburton continue to profit off Saddam's regime. In Libya, Halliburton has managed to get around a U.S. embargo on exports to that North African country by using its British subsidiary, Brown & Root North Africa. According to Tom Buerkle of the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, this company, other contractors and the Libyan government claim that one project they are involved in is just a water pipeline. The pipeline runs 1,800 miles "from deep in the Sahara Desert to Libyan cities along the Mediterranean." However, "some Western security analysts" claim that this vast pipeline complex could "hold vehicles" and "several underground caverns" for clandestine Libyan military operations. The contractors have also attempted to account for the American construction equipment in use on the project by saying that it was purchased before l986 when the embargo banning U.S. exports to Libya took effect. Cheney has called for an end to sanctions against Libya, Iran and Nigeria that try to limit U.S. petroleum and construction investments in those countries. The direct link of Cheney as vice president to shady deals with "rogue regimes" would make "plausible deniability" nearly impossible. Whether his Iraqi and Libyan connections are swept under the rug as minor infractions or erupt into an Iran-Contra- type scandal remains to be seen. In any event, the promise of a new "ethical" administration is a joke. The name of the game is to uphold U.S. capitalist interests by hook or by crook. For this task, Cheney is more than qualified to be vice president of U.S. capitalism's political state. -- "Nowadays, atheism is itself *culpa levis*, as compared with criticism of existing property relations." 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