Political Question

[BlueCat00]

Ok here ya go..a brief course in Cheney 101:

He is a Neo Conservative <------this alone should send up a red flag.

He is a war profiteer: <-----again another red flag. (Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton Company, which greatly benefits from contracts with the U.S. government, especially in the war with Iraq )

Cheney has ties to the Carlyle Group, if you don't know them PLEASE look them up!! He is a former Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute <-----crooks big time.

(http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/...ios/cheney.htm

He served on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and has been linked to the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). <----the plan to invade Iraq conceived before 9-11.

Mr. Cheney opposed the Equal Rights Amendment


While serving in Congress, he was one of 21 members opposing the sale ban of armor-piercing bullets; was one of only four to oppose the ban on guns that can get through metal detectors (he is really making our country safer isn't he? If there is a profit to be made in arms sales he does not care how many crooks have guns.

opposed sanctions against the apartheid-era South Africa in the mid-1980s along with voting against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela

He voted against Head Start; and voted against extending the Clean Water Act in 1987.

Mr. Cheney is still drawing a $1,000,000 per year paycheck from Halliburton while serving as the Vice President. Not only does he profit from war he made it a point to get Halliburton into profits from Katrina.

He is like a vulture.... he circles when there are dead.

His persistent embroglio in the Junior Bush regime has been with his Energy Task Force through which during the early months of 2001 he was taking dictation from Enron and studying petro maps of Iraq, and wants to keep all those notes a secret.

In honor of Big Business Day 2003, Citizen Works presented Dick Cheney the "Daddy Warbucks" Award for eminence in corporate war profiteering on Friday, April 4.

''THE JUSTICE Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, French prosecutors, and the Nigerian government are all investigating allegations that a Halliburton subsidiary paid millions of dollars in bribes to Nigerian officials during the 1990s, when Vice President Dick Cheney was the Halliburton CEO.''

Halliburton has already admitted that they paid $2.4 million in bribes to Nigerian officials (under Cheney's watch) in order to receive tax breaks for some oil business they were doing there.


Halliburton recently came under fire for overcharging again, this time on meal service for the troops. Apparently Halliburton was charging the government for the anticipated number of meals served to troops, not the 'actual' number of meals served. Halliburton has since stated that it will pay back the $27.4 million overcharge.


In a notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Halliburton disclosed that Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control last month reopened a 2001 inquiry that centered on the legality of the business dealings between Iran and a Halliburton subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands."

Not only has Halliburton been shown to have done business, through subsidiaries of course, with Iran, but also with Iraq and Libya. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to notice that the normal business practices of Halliburton are price gouging, kickbacks, bribes, and illegal trading.

Remarkably, that didn't stop them from getting a new 5-year contract in mid January, 2004 with the government to do work in Iraq.

Blazing a new trail that has nothing to do with shady business practices, there currently is a court case in front of The Supreme Court of the United States of America in reference to Cheney and his secret energy task force. Judicial Watch is suing Cheney for access to records, under the Freedom of Information Act, of his energy task force that met in Washington. This task force was brought together to formulate energy policy. Attendees included Ken Lay (of Enron Fame, and former co-chairman of Bush Sr. reelection campaign), and other oil industry leaders.

The results of these meetings went into the Energy Bill that the President is pushing "..an energy bill that included $72.5 billion in spending and $23.5 billion in tax breaks, mainly for big energy corporations",


Now back to the court case in front of the Supreme Court. It turns out that Justice Anthony Scalia of the Supreme Court flew as Cheney's guest, on a small government jet that served as Air Force Two. Along with 7 other guests they went on a 3 day duck hunting trip. This was just "weeks after the high court agreed to take up Cheney's bid to keep secret the details of his energy policy task force.'', as reported in the Los Angeles Times.

Last but not least, UPI reported recently that, ''Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney's office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer's identity last year.

HE IS SCUM.

[anycraic]

3 cheers fo the government!

[beachguy in thongs]

He voted against Head Start; and voted against extending the Clean Water Act in 1987.

Right there.

I had a Head Start right at the bottom of my dead-end road (Gay Ln.) and couldn't have had a better life without the use of it's property. All the way from playing Kick-the-shoe on the swingsets to making out with girls on the grass (and the playground). If he banned Head Start, Big Bird would start selling crack.

[BlueCat00]

He voted against Head Start; and voted against extending the Clean Water Act in 1987.

Right there.

I had a Head Start right at the bottom of my dead-end road (Gay Ln.) and couldn't have had a better life without the use of it's property. All the way from playing Kick-the-shoe on the swingsets to making out with girls on the grass (and the playground). If he banned Head Start, Big Bird would start selling crack.

that doesn't make any sense.....you don't support headstart?

[king kong bong]

i just seen something on aol news....michael moore running for congressman.

[BlueCat00]

really?....boy the neocons will have a field day with that one..

[beachguy in thongs]

that doesn't make any sense.....you don't support headstart?

No, that's what got to me. My Mother worked at Head Start and I got in a year early because she was driving me to my Grandmother's every morning and then coming back, and they said she didn't have to do that so I went there for two years. It was fun.

No, it's great, I don't see where Cheney would be coming from, voting against it.

[BlueCat00]

Oh good beachguy sorry for the confusion..whew...thank goodness.
head start is a great program!