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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't understand why you're talking about the oil-for-food scandal. And did you get upset when Halliburton subsidiaries were doing business with Iraq in the 1990's (where do you think the $$$ to buy French munitions was coming from)?
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Actually, Halliburton was also until recently lobbying to do business with Iran through a foreign subsidiary. The truth is, its a complicated web. Everybody is everybody else's both friend and enemy simultaneously on different issues.
So the French sold air defense to the Iraqis. So what? We were selling it to them before the French. I'm wiling to bet a whole lot of the Iraqi army's artillery was shit we gave them during the 80s. Does that make us enemeies of ourselves?
We created it. We fed it. We then broke it. Now we own it.
