re: RP: Cheney used 9/11 as excuse to invade Iraq for the benefit of Halliburton

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I have watched Dick Cheney for 35 years and have never seen a single instance where his motives could be questioned.

If you have an instance, let's hear it.

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What's the standard for you to question a politician's motives? I would think a company receiving no-bid contracts from the DoD while the VP is receiving deferred compensation and holding stock options is enough to question, at least, but I suspect your view is rather rosier.

I'd also say that the $250 million settlement with Nigeria over bribery charges is troubling, seeing as KBR copped $400 million in fines to Nigeria, and the duo together copped $600 million in US fines plus a guilty plea from the KBR CEO. There was definitely something going on at the upper echelons there. To say nothing to the sleaze involving Dresser and their oil-for-food transactions; Cheney claimed to have "stopped" them, but they went on for a year and a half after they were acquired in 1998, until just before he was being sniffed as VP.

Naturally, we don't know that Cheney was involved with the Nigerian bribery, or how aware he was of the Dresser-Iraq connections before February of 2000. Politics is uncertainty. I think it's pretty blasé to say they're things you can't even question, though.