Reply #64: Obviously not... Take a look at the investigations of Greg Palast

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www.gregpalast.com

Karl Rove and his best bud, Grover Norquist were intimately associated with several Muslim Charities that have since been formally investigated for terrorist activities. Yet, prior to 911, Bush spiked these investigations (needed those Muslim Votes). Take a look at this article and several others in Palast's archives:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=103&row=4


As for the Cheney "misdeeds" take time to read:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8498
The Greed Factor
Sanctions against rogue regimes would have been abandoned if Dick Cheney had had his way.

By David J. Sirota and Jonathan Baskin
Web Exclusive: 09.15.04
Beyond blatantly mischaracterizing Democrats’ positions on defense, these shameless attacks serve to distract from the vice president’s own proclivity for undermining American foreign policy. The record shows that over the last decade, Cheney was willing first to do business with countries on the U.S. government’s terror list, then to travel abroad and condemn U.S. counter-terrorism policy when it got in his way. In the process, Cheney proved repeatedly he could be trusted to put Halliburton’s bottom line ahead of his country’s national security.

As Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, Cheney helped lead a multinational coalition against Iraq and was one of the architects of a post-war economic embargo designed to choke off funds to the country. He insisted the world should “maintain sanctions, at least of some kind,” so Saddam Hussein could not “rebuild the military force he’s used against his neighbors.”

But less than six years later, as a private businessman, Cheney apparently had more important interests than preventing Hussein from rebuilding his army. While he claimed during the 2000 campaign that, as CEO of Halliburton, he had “imposed a ‘firm policy’ against trading with Iraq,” confidential UN records show that, from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that sold more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was in charge. Halliburton acquired its interest in both firms while Cheney was at the helm, and continued doing business through them until just months before Cheney was named George W. Bush’s running mate. --more--