The Republican/neoconservative ability to create and publicly repeat these kinds of paranoic link-based remarks is a thing to behold. You won't see any Republicans rushing to draw links of any kind from this set of recent events and facts surrounding Dubai, Halliburton, Cheney, Iran, and sexual slavery.
The link trail starts with Halliburton.
The company that keeps on giving and taking, Halliburton, is moving its main corporate headquarters to Dubai, U.A.E.: source
The move has deservedly drawn widespread criticism.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, called the move, "an example of corporate greed at its worst.....This is an insult to the U.S. soldiers and taxpayers who paid the tab for their no-bid contracts and endured their overcharges for all these years...At the same time they'll be avoiding U.S. taxes, I'm sure they won't stop insisting on taking their profits in cold hard U.S. cash."
"Federal investigators last month alleged Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq. "
The extremely liberal tax laws in Dubai also are an enticement, and keep in mind that, "Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995-2000."
Cheney turns out, has recently stopped in Dubai as well.
Abdullah welcomes Cheney to the U.A.E.
Next up is Iran. A few short days after Cheney visits Dubai, U.A.E., none other than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also stops in for a two day visit: UAE and Iran cement ties
"The UAE is currently Iran's largest trading partner."
Just a few of the "links" you will never hear from the Lindsey Grahams start taking shape.
Halliburton receives U.S. taxpayer supported contracts, often times no-bid contracts, to work to support American efforts in Iraq. But Halliburton is now based in Dubai, U.A.E., and of course won't be contributing to the American tax base. Turns out the U.A.E. is also the largest trading partner with Iran, and as we all know Iran is the center of the Bush-Cheney call to war. But Cheney also likes to visit Dubai, U.A.E, the home of his alma mater Halliburton.
There are many kickers to add to this cozy inexplicable multi-parametered equation but the one that is quite telling is that the U.A.E. is also the home of a huge human slave trade, where unwitting people are used as sexual slaves and hard laborers. From the CIA itself
"...the United Arab Emirates is a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked from South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for involuntary servitude and for sexual exploitation; an estimated 10,000 women from sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, South and East Asia, Iraq, Iran, and Morocco may be victims of sex trafficking in the UAE; women also migrate from Africa, and South and Southeast Asia to work as domestic servants, but may have their passports confiscated, be denied permission to leave the place of employment in the home, or face sexual or physical abuse by their employers; men from South Asia come to the UAE to work in the construction industry, but may be subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude as they are coerced to pay off recruitment and travel costs, sometimes having their wages denied for months at a time..."
The web is as tangled as it gets. There are vast sums of money at stake, power plays, war intentions that hint at using nuclear weapons, glaring human rights violations including sexual slavery, corporate tax evasive maneuvers along with waste and overcharge allegations, a strange convention of warring bedfellows, a Vice President, is there anything missing?
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