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Article: Cheney & Halliburton: Go Where the Oil Is.(economic relationship between vice president Dick Cheney, anti-sanction policies, and Haliburton Co.)
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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PROBABLY THE MOST ENTERTAINING EXCHANGE in the vice-presidential debate last year occurred when Joe Lieberman, referring to the millions of dollars Dick Cheney had made as CEO of Halliburton Co., noted that Cheney was considerably "better off" than he had been eight years earlier.
Cheney, refusing to give the Clinton administration any credit for his own prosperity, or the nation's, replied that his new wealth "had nothing to do with the government."
The assertion was disingenuous, as in fact Halliburton's growth and Dick Cheney's own $37 million stock and option windfall were directly related to profits made with the help of foreign aid packages and ...