What Would You Call That Breeze I Feel? *

The Selective Service System is looking for men and women to serve as members of local boards that are currently in a standby mode. A prospective member must be a United States citizen, at least 18 years old, registered with the Selective Service (if male), not employed in law enforcement, not an active or retired Armed Forces member and not convicted in any criminal offense. . . .If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 local and appeal boards throughout the nation would decide which young men in each community receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on federal guidelines and community standards. . .visit www.sss.gov and click on "Board Member Application."  Aberdeen News (MD), 1/13/05 MORE

Bush Plans Bombing of Iran *

[A]ward-winning reporter Seymour . . . Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon as saying, "The civilians in the Pentagon want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible."  One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, "This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we're going to have the Iranian campaign." . . .Bush has already "signed a series of top-secret findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as 10 nations . . . Defining these as military targets. . .will enable the Bush administration to evade legal restrictions imposed on the CIA's covert activities overseas. Reuters, 1/16/05  MORE

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Bush/Cheney Trade with Saddam & Iran

1. Bush Appoints Bank Exec who Financed Iraq, Iran and Cuba as Homeland Security Council Chairman.

The chairman of the nation's Homeland Security Advisory Council was helping to guide America's security strategy at the same time he was a top executive [Chairman and CEO, UBS PaineWebber, USA] with an international banking firm that was investigated and eventually fined more than $100 million for cash transfers to rogue nations, including Iraq, Iran, Libya and Cuba. . .With access to intelligence and other sensitive security information, Grano's panel has been urged to analyze all of the nation's Homeland Security efforts. . . .At the council's first meeting in June 2002, Bush sat next to Grano and praised the government's efforts to stop international money laundering to terror groups. . .  Authorities later discovered phony records and a cover-up scheme by UBS officials in its main Zurich office, concealing up to $5 billion that was sent from UBS to Iran, Libya. . .from 1996 to 2003, . . .In January [2004] . . .Grano stepped down from UBS  Thomas Maier, Newsday, 10/15/04  MORE

2. Halluburton Traded with Iraq While Cheney was CEO

During last year's presidential campaign, Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.

"Iraq's different," he said.

According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company.

Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries say that, as far as they knew, there was no policy against doing business with Iraq. One of the executives also says that although he never spoke directly to Cheney about the Iraqi contracts, he is certain Cheney knew about them.   Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 6/23/01 MORE
 

3. Halliburton Traded with Iran While Cheney was CEO

Halliburton is the company that Vice President Dick Cheney used to run. He was CEO in 1995 to 2000, during which time Halliburton Products and Services set up shop in Iran. Today, it sells about $40 million a year worth of oil field services to the Iranian Government. 60 Minutes, 1/25/04.    UPDATE: The oil services company [Halliburton] said it had received a letter from the US treasury department, informing it that an inquiry into allegations that Halliburton might have broken trade embargoes had been reopened.
The investigation relates to when Mr. Cheney was running the company. He was chief executive between 1995 and 2000 before quitting to run for office with George Bush, taking with him a $36m (£19m) severance package.

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