They only decided not to bid on new contracts LAST YEAR. Here's the hypocrisy in all its' glory:
Halliburton Co., the world's largest oil-field services company, has pledged not to seek new work in Iran, a country accused by the State Department of state-sponsored terrorism, said New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, a steward of pension funds holding company stock worth about $42 million.
Halliburton's vice president and corporate counsel, Margaret E. Carriere, wrote in a letter faxed to Thompson's office from the company's Houston headquarters yesterday, "Halliburton will take appropriate corporate action to cause its subsidiaries to not bid for any new work in Iran," while continuing on work previously undertaken.
The company -- whose chief executive from 1995 until August 2000 was Vice President Cheney -- used an offshore subsidiary to skirt U.S. law and conduct business in Iran, Thompson said. The comptroller had used the city's pension fund holdings in Halliburton stock to pursue a shareholders' resolution demanding the company get out of Iran.
"Over the last two years, the New York City Pension Funds have aggressively targeted five companies that have used loopholes in the law to conduct business with terrorist-sponsoring nations," Thompson said in a statement. "I am hopeful that Halliburton's decision will prompt other companies to thoroughly examine their relationships with nations that sponsor terrorism." ...More at link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64660-2005Mar24.htmlFollow the money....