Annan seeks iraq "fraud" inquiry--Cheney profits from oil for food.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of fraud and corruption in its oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
http://www.headliner.nl/headliner.php?c=uk&id=125987&abbr=bbcnews

Years before Mr. Cheney became vice-president, he worked for another George Bush as secretary of defense. In that capacity he helped devise a comprehensive economic embargo the purpose of which was to isolate Saddam Hussein's government. He probably thought an economic embargo would eventually bring down the Hussein government. It didn't happen on his watch. Instead, when he left that post he became chairman and chief executive officer of Halliburton, a company that like the Russian engineers, was helping Saddam Hussein. Mr. Cheney quickly forgot his goal of putting in place an economic embargo and instead started personally profiting from trading with Iraq. Under his stewardship Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries which entered a joint venture agreement with Ingersoll-Rand Co. Two subsidiaries of those companies sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad using French affiliates. What Halliburton did was completely legal because it did it through joint ventures and subsidiaries and within the orbit of the "oil for food" program run by the United Nations.

http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli03182004.html

in fact when you look up 'bad man' in the dictionary, you see that SOB's sneering mug.

What if they DO find Cheney/Halliburton guilty as charged?

From the article:

...In order to obtain more Iraqi money stashed away by the old regime, the US Treasury on Thursday submitted the names of 16 Saddam Hussein family members and 191 quasi-governmental firms to the UN.

A UN Security Council resolution requires that member nations freeze accounts which contain Iraqi money and hand over the funds for Iraq's reconstruction.

Our treaty obligations are the law of the land.

Let us bring all the skeletons out of the closet, eh *LOL*!!!

Then, we can begin from a truly fresh start.

Given his recent crusading about corruption in the oil for food program.