-- George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 01/29/2002
Indifference? Catastrophic. Good old fashioned collusion? No biggie. If you're General Electric -- which gave the Republican Party and George W. Bush more than a million dollars in contributions between 1998 and 2004 -- or Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old employer, go ahead and do business with "the enemy."
And trade they did. US law forbids US companies to do business with certain countries, including Iran, but foreign subsidiaries of those companies can.
Now, however, GE and Halliburton are pulling out of Iran. Did they get a hot tip or something?
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