Speaking of appeasers: Cheney/Halliburton connection to the Burmese Junta...

[Virginia Dare]

I dug this one out of the archives, it's worth another look.

Cheney Firm
Slammed for
Burma Connection
DALLAS

Worker shareholders stepped up their global campaign to end corporate support for Burma’s military dictatorship at Halliburton’s (NYSE: HAL) annual meeting on May 15. Representatives of the AFL-CIO and the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) spoke in favor of a shareholder resolution addressing the Halliburton Co. involvement in human rights abuses in Burma. Halliburton, the energy giant formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is one of the few U.S.-based companies with investments in Burma — a country whose government is noted for massive human rights violations and involvement in narcotics trafficking.

Halliburton’s recent activities in Burma include its participation in the Yadana pipeline, a project that used forced labor. The Yadana pipeline is one of the largest foreign investments in Burma, projected to provide the military-controlled regime with $150-$400 million annually for decades.

DENIAL EXPOSED

Halliburton denies it does business in Burma. A report by Kenny Bruno and Jim Valette in the May issue of Multinational Monitor details Halliburton’s Burmese energy development projects, including the notorious Yadana and Yetagun pipelines.

An investigation of that project concluded that "construction and operation of the pipelines has involved the use of forced labor, forced relocation and even murder, torture and rape," write Bruno and Valette. "In addition, as the largest foreign investment projects in Burma, the pipelines will provide revenue to prop up the regime, perhaps for decades to come."

Unocal, another U.S. company doing business in Burma, is being sued by victims of forced labor on the Yadana project. Halliburton’s involvement in the Yadana project occurred during Vice President Cheney’s tenure as CEO of the company.

Halliburton’s involvement in Burma predates Cheney’s tenure as CEO and began two years after the military seized power. Under Cheney’s leadership, however, Halliburton has been involved in partnerships with notorious human rights-violators, and has vigorously opposed sanctions designed to restrict corporate engagement with dictatorships

http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_0501_burma.html

[zbdent]

1. Weren't they appeasing Saddam during the nineties

when it was illegal to trade with the enemy?

(I remember there were talking points about how Bill Clinton was courting North Korea by giving a signed Michael Jordan basketball ...)

[Virginia Dare]

2. Yes you're correct, Cheney and Halliburton..

also made a boatload of money from their dealings with Saddam, and they heavily financed his regime as well.

[Disturbed]

3. As long as viscious Dictators brings profits to US Corps

there will be lucrative deals made. Money trumps everything.