from: http://www.blazingtattles.com/info/cheney.htm Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.blazingtattles.com/info/cheney.htm">Richard B. Cheney/Daily bombing of Iraq</A> ----- August 2000 Blazing Tattles c2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXCERPT (FROM A LONGER ARTICLE) LINKS RICHARD B. CHENEY TO DAILY BOMBING OF IRAQ: US air raids against Iraq continue to this day. Why does the Clinton administration risk the lives of American pilots and yet another Gulf War? The explanations put forth by the administration -- that this is being done to get the UN arms inspectors back into Iraq and to protect the Kurdish and Shiite minorities in Iraq's northern and southern "no fly" zones -- have been discredited. Now its public relations strategy is to keep the raids as quiet as possible but, when the media occasionally takes notice, to claim that the bombing raids are only aimed at "Iraq's air-defense system." According to a Feb. 29 report from the Associated Press (AP), however, at times the Iraqis have fired back and insisted that civilian targets were bombed. The US media have generally cooperated with the administration with a virtual blackout of any news coverage of the bombing. The only notable investigative reporting on this subject in the US media has been by Colum Lynch of The Washington Post (Feb. 20). Lynch found that US corporations are making under-the-table commercial agreements with Saddam Hussein's regime to help partially reconstruct Iraq's oil infrastructure, which has been demolished by years of economic sanctions and "almost daily" US and British bombing. This is "legal" under the UN "oil for food" pro- gram, an ostensibly "humanitarian exemption from the UN trade embargo imposed on Iraq after [its] 1990 invasion of Kuwait." But the US government does not want to advertise this trade with a "rogue" state, and apparently the UN has agreed to cover for them. Thus, according to Lynch, the UN "oil for food" Web site was taken offline when the UN found learned that The Washington Post was using it to track down American firms that buy Iraqi oil through foreign subsidiaries. Lynch identified and described several of these US corporations, including "such petroleum industry giants as Halliburton, the world's largest oil field service company; Schlumberger, the second largest oil field servicer; the Fisher- Rosemount unit of Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis; the Hamilton Sundstrand unit of United Technologies in Windsor Locks, Conn.; and Baker Hughes Inc. of Houston." It is interesting to note that when John M. Deutch, who was CIA director during the Gulf War, is now on the board of directors of Schlumberger. Halliburton's CEO is none other Richard B. Cheney, who was secretary of defense during the Bush administration! It seems that this type of duplicity is not limited to the Clinton administration, but part of a larger trend within America. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get the balance of the story, "Why is the U.S. Still Bombing Iraq?"1 in the August 2000 issue of Blazing Tattles, available by yearly subscription or purchasable for US$5.00, postage paid anywhere in the world. Send check or money order to Blazing Tattles, P.O. Box 8609, Tampa, FL 33674-3609. Subscription Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. The People, 4/2000. Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 156 E. Dana St., Mountain View, CA 94041-1508. Return to home page Posted August 1, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
